New-York tribune., 1919-09-26
Congress Is Told
Japanese Violate
immigration Rule
Pacific Coast Business Men
Urge Absolute Exclusion
and Deportation of All
Asiatics Now in Country

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Japan is
violating the immigration barriers to
this country intended to be raised by
the so-called gentlemen's agreement
Y. S. McClatchy, of Sacramento, Cal,
and Miller Freeman, of Seattle, Wash,
day told the House immigration
| Committee. They urged adoption of
policy of absolute exclusion by the
United States, and the deportation of
Asiatcs already in this country. The
committee is considering immigration
legislation and the witnesses appeared
! to oppose particularly the admission
Of Asiatics or a mathematical scale
based on those already here.
Mr.. Clatchy declared the situation
on the Pacific Coast was only an eX-
ample Of what would happen else
where, "fnally resulting in the United
States being made japanese prov
ince."
''The question is purely an economic
one, not a racial one" declared Mr..
McClatchy, who assailed the making
of the gcntlemen's agreement rs "a
serious blunder."
Both witnesses asserted that the
white race was hopelessly unable to
contend with Japanese economic COM
petition.
"The japanese government is issuing
labor" asserted Mr.. Freeman. "The
only way of solving the problem is by
legislation; it cannot be solved by ed
ministration of existing laws"
Mr.. McClatchy said a policy of alb
solute exclusion of the Japanese be-
cause of their economic standards
would only be practising a policy en-
forced by the Japanese in their own
country against the Chinese and.
Coreans.
In order that the country might be
advised of the japanese problem, the
witness urged the committee to send q
subcommittee to the Pacific Coast to
make an exhaustive inquiry.
Japanese immigrants entering at
Seattle for the year ended last June
numbered 5,170, of whom 1862 we're
women. Mr.. Freeman said, while Mr..
McClatchy said the total number of
these immigrants on the Pacific Coast
was about ten thousand for the year.
The women were brought for breeding
purposes" Mr.. Freeman asserted, add
ing that the children born in this coun-
try were entitled to own property.
investigation OF the Yokohama Bank,
at Seattle, was urged by Mr.. Freeman,
who contended that the Japanese i'm
perial family owned the majority stock.
During the war, Mr.. Freeman said,
the japanese found the door to the
United States wide open. Their col
onization during that time had gone on
so quietly, he declared, that even the
people of the Northwest "did not real
lze the gravity of it,"
Returning soldiers find the door of
opportunity closed to them by this
alien race" he declared.
Proposed legislation for the adms-
sion of Japanese on percentage basis
was criticised by Mr. McClatchy, who
said its enactment would "mean the
collapse of the American Republic"
The plan, he explained would permit
the entry of $500 Japanese in 1919,
1920 and 1921, $500 in 1922, 1900 in
1923, with steady increase thereafter
under q percentage plan.
'In forty years from 1929" declared
Mr.. McClatchy. the Japanese popula-
tion Of the United States under the op-
Grafton of the Gulick plan will be, in
round figures, 2 900 900, in eighty years
100000, in 14o years 1oo,00o,0OO."