The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-10-04
GREAT INDUSTRIES OF SEATTLE
FALL TO JAP CONTROL.
Run 215 Hotels and 1876 Grocery
StOres-Defense Movement Launched
BY Americans.

Seattle, Wash.-An anti-Japanese de-
Tense movement has been definitely
launched here.
In no other American city has
the aggressive energy of the men
from Nippon put the mark of the
MikadO upon so many lines of bus
mess and profit.
Elsewhere the Japanese problem
is mainly rural. In the Northwest
ii is both rural and urban. Seattle
is a warning to other American
cities.
There is scarcely a line of indus
try in which Japanese are not
firmly launched and making white
competition look sick In many
the Japanese already hold the whip
hand.
Text of Facts.
Here are some of the facts on which
the defense campaign is based.
Japanese own and control hun
dreds of acres of the best farm land
adjacent to Seattle.
Wholesale and retail meat markets
in Seattle and the Seattle Public
Market"
The Oriental Trading Company
wholesale house which supports Jap
anese retailers and helps break down
competition.
One hundred and thirty-six Seattle
grocery stores.
More than a score of barber shops;
many dye works, junk shops, garages
and auto repair shops: ten motion
pictures shows: more than a score
of clothing and shoe stores; dozens
of fruit stands cigar counters, soft
drink places and pool rooms.
Several importing and exporting
companies.
In Tacoma they control Sc hotels
and lodging houses, and are making
wide gains in other lines.
In the pullaup valley. adjacent to
Tacoma, they control $4,000 acres
of rich land
They ship into Tacoma rs per cent
of her garden truck.
In the White River valley, near
Seattle they control So per cent of
the dairying, and IS per cent of the
land.
japanese Schools
In the town of O'Brien Mark the
name) short distance from Seattle
in 1909, there were 1000 white chill
dren and one Japanese child attend
ing school Today there are forty
five whites and forty Japanese.
In many communities the Jap
anese children attend Japanese
schools in addition to the American.
They receive the Mikadoe's brand
of training as a counter-irritant to
ours.
These japanese business moves
are financed through Japanese or
CARNATIONS, chambers of commerce
and banks. It is stated by Amer
lean fiinanciers that gigantic Jap
anese syndicate exists in Seattle,
with unlimited funds for countrymen
at an amazingly low rate of inter-
est. This capital is available for
any sort of venture that will give
the Japanese an added foothold in
America.
The Japanese works fifteen to
eighteen hours a day. His children
increase five times as rapidly as do
ours. Born here. the children become
citizens of this country and can own
land. With cheap labor long hours
anu d lOW tl DldHG VI Nv INV jap
anese easily throttles the white &C.
onomically.
Soldiers Aroused.
The Mutual Business club, the Re-
tail Grocers' association and the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars as strongly
back of the campaign against the
little brown men"
Thus far, they have concentrated
their chief efforts on national state
lawmakers urging new or amended
migration laws.
The problem of what to do with
the Nipponese population already
here is receiving serious consider
alton.
The work of the northwest white"
organizations is linked with that of
similar bodies in Oregon and Cali
fornia. 1t is intended that the whole
Pacific coast will work together.
A boycott of all things Japanese
has ben suggested in Seattle One
phase was tried when all Japanese
controlled hotels were listed in a
newspaper The effect of this pub
licity was immediate. All hotels not
listed are placing goldleaf signs in
their windows, announcing:
"This Place Is American Owned
Urges Deportation
at has been the general opinion
that the Japanese problem was solved
by the so-called "Gentlemen's Agree
ment," says Miller Freeman, secre-
tary of the State Veterans Welfare
commission. art was thought that
this agreement had practically check
ed Japanese immigration.
"Yet, during the fiscal year, end
ing June 30, 1919, there were admit
ted through the port of Seattle 5,17O
Japanese. Passports are issued by
Japan to any one who says he is
not a laborer, and is not liable to
he charge on this country.
Included in our admission during
the fiscal year ending June 20, were
1922 females. These women will
bear from six to ten children.
Japan retains control of her peo-
pie everywhere, Notwithstanding the
fact that they may be accepted as
citizens by the countries Of their
adoption.
81 am for a white mans Pacific
coast. / am for the Japanese on
their own side Of the fence. I am
not only stopping further immigra-
ton, but believe this country should
approach Japan with the view to
working out a system of gradual