Arizona republican., 1920-07-15
Jansnese Immiaration

Japanese immigration
 The Japanese immigration question which is being considered at Sacramento, and wherever country may be considered. has two sides of which is seldom presented We would not say the usually hidden is of sufficient weight or any weight all, concerns tighten ing of the restrictions placed upon the imigra- ton of Japanese and Chinese, but it is something which Americans might consider to their own ad- vantage.
 The principal charge against the Japanese is that they enter a community they gradually take control it's producing commercial activities charged they do this by the employment of the cheaper their contrymen by working long by degree self denial which Americans are inca pablo of making and indeed. could not make sacrifice o comfort and health; that Japanese spend and that altogether their competition is unfair and cannot be met
 We want in country, course. immigra- ton which will tend to reduce standard living which has raised constantly and which want to raise still more. Many things though into standard living dress the table hours and of recreation and competition among the peo- pie o community for superiority of front" side" Thus there may be introduced into the standard of living, extravaganza and incidence under guise of proper comforts rest and recra- tion.
 At first the Japanese who invaded California activities truck gardening and the fisheries the truck gardeners expanded. They established stores the sales or the1r prod ducts they became commission merchants they branched out into the general grocery business and many larger cities they occupied the field.
 In conversations with Californians with per who have temporarily lived in Los Angeles we have learned how they did it. It by under selling by superior service. The customer never m Japanese grocery sleepy, indifferent nc offensively independent clerk, always alert attendant who seemed to be interested in his prospective patron. The latter was never offered his choice of wi1ted vegetables. what presented inspection crisp apparently from the garden, though it have been only kept fresh by attention.
 A people may live unnecessarily meanly and cheapy. Americans should be left in competition people whose meanness and cheapness characteristics. But they entitled protection the thrift and industry other people. If hey compete in those fields they deserve be crowded out and down.
 Most foreigners who have come this country especially those who have from Germany and France, brought with them habits industry and thrift. English immigrants less industrious. habits of thoroughness and thrift which found the New England native stock planted three centuries before-strongly variance with the easy, happy go lucky habits of Of the country.
 when foundations great fortunes began to be laid. the masons were those Germans, Frenchmen, Engiislmen and New Enganders.
 What would have become of but for the ad of the people who imported these habits know. We do not mean admxture by mar riage rather. the competition that forced upon We gain Ydea what dton would have been by contemplating those sec tions the country which only slightly washed if at all by the tide of immigration and where little advancement has been made in three centuries.