JAPAN AND AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1722, 12 April 1913, Page 7

JAPAN AND AMERICA.

: ; : ; ..9 . ... 'THREAT TO BOYCOTT EXPOSITION. By Telegraph—Presa; Association—Copyright i '■ ■ ■ Tokioj April 10. Japanese merchants threaten to boycott the Panama Canal; Exhibition at San Francisco unless the Californian' AntiJapanese legislation is withdrawn. The Japanese Foreign Office is protesting to Washington on the subject'. ; :/, CANADIAN MEASURE BECOMES LAW. (Rec. April 11, 9.55 p.m.) \ Ottawa. April 11. . The Royal Assent has been given to the Japanese' Immigration Act. Under the Act power is reserved t° restrict-immi-gration from Japan under tho ordinary regulations and not, as'hitherto, to rely on restriction by tho Japanese Government, . Thopeople of the Pacific Coast (says, the New York "Outlook") aro absolutely right in their conviction that the Japanese cannot be admitted en masse; that Japanese immigration of small merchants or men who wish to take up the land cannot be allowed. This is the attitude that Japan, in different ways, herself takes. Americans and all other foreigners have been steadily pressed, out • of those employments in Japan in which they were used to teach the Japanese things that thirty or forty years ago they did not know. In each case, as soon as the men who were teach-, ing tho new business to the Japanese had taught a. sufficient number ot scholars sufficiently woll, their sorvices were dispensed with. And this was "greatly to tho credit of tho Japanese, and was one of the indications that they stood on a totally different? plans from other Oriental nation?.- Japanese do not allow foreigners ti hold land in Japan save under such restrictions as. to make it practically impossible to do so; aiiid no one for a moment supposes that tho Japanoso would permit any immigration of working men from American or European countries en masse if they compotcd with Japanoso .workmon. The Japanese exclude the Chinese quite .as rigidly as does any Occidental race, and in a more obnoxious manner. ' _