THE WILY JAP

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 19 October 1907, Page 3

THE WILY JAP

THE TBOUULE OX TIIE PACIFIC SLOPE. VIEWS OF OXE WHO WAS THERE. Mr J. lloggard, of Wellington, who lias just relumed from a lengthy visit

to the Western slope of the United States and Canada, informs the Dominion that he was in San Francisco during a recrudescence of the Westerner

against tlie Japanese, which has become white hot during the past month or so. He recalls one incident that actu-

ally happened when he was visiting San Francisco, which he contends goes to strengthen the opinion he expresses—namely, that the racial troubles on the Pacific Slope, if they did originate in the while maa's resentment of the Japanese passive invasion of America, were

actively fomented by the yellow men themselves, who, it is claimed, exaggerated every possible incident into an insult to Japan. The occasion referred to was a street row between unionists and non-unionists, which ended in a melee in which bricks and road metal played a bloody part. The row, Mr lloggard states, happened to take place in front of a Japanese restaurant, and when the ''boys" started to play ill grim earnest tlie Japanese "cook-shop" was considerable damaged. This incident the Japanese Consul magnified into an organised attack 011 hearth and home, and called wildly 011 Tokio that it amounted to a national isult; and there ensued a passage between Washington and the Japanese capital, which at one time looked really dangerous."There is 110 room for them (the Japanese)," says Mr lloggard, "in a white man's country. The first row over the

school at Sail Francisco was over a movement to separate Japanese from whites, because they found 17 and 18-vear-old Japanese men attending school with wdiite girls of much tenderer age; but the matter was taken up as an insult to the Hag, and in harmony with their recent policy they resolved to assert themselves, while exciting sympathy through misrepresentation, if not subterfuge. "The knowledge that this is so has hardened up the American and his cousin in the North, and the alarming!;, increasing number of Japanese immigrants has roused the wihte man to a sense of tho danger that exists. "I visited most of 11(0 Chinese and Japanese quarters in the western sities, and will never forget the degrading horrors that have travelled with the yellow men. I even went into several of the vilest opium dens and saw sights which made one mad to think that the white race should bo brought, so low under the lieel of Asia—utterly destroyed and wholly dishonored. •■Under an existing treaty between

Canada and Japan only 000 of the Japanese are nermitted to go into Canada in a year, but it is said that over IJOO settled ill the Dominion last year, evading the law by making a stay in Honolulu for such time as enabled them io become citizens of the I'nitcd .States, and ill that thin guise they were allowed in. Kufh Japanese arriving in Canada has to show wealth to the extent of 2")dol. To the pour Jap who travels to Canada via Honolulu this sum is advanced bv wily linanciers at the latter part, who charge a heavy rate of interest. which, with the principal, is collected' by watchful agents within the Dominion." -What u'erk do the Japanese do?"

'■What do they do? Wei!, they and tic Chinese absolutely control the sal-nion-calinimr industry of the Fraser river and elsewhere, and they are chief factor in the lumber trade of the West, which was formerly run with white labor. "For a Japane-e the Jap will work long hours and a place In sleep in. but when he. works fur a wdote man he wants union wanes- m- a little under—the best (f food and -horl, hours. The Jap is ticrccly patriotic, and always has a definite object in view, cither to team English, learn business, or learn the ways (if white men and how to defeat them, and it is for lore of country. He is only cheap labor as long aa it suits him, ail 4 is ttß filiffl as jtt is