JAPANESE EMIGRANTS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 14, 26 July 1900, Page 4

JAPANESE EMIGRANTS.

It was recently announced thfi the Emperor had prohibited etai gration from Japan, presumably^ response to representations froj the United States. The trouble | the American side of the Pacil was assuming alarming proportion A year ago not more than two! threa hundred Japanese immigrai| landed at San Francisco, but t^ year there seems to have been] veritable invasion of the Wes fully 80,000 Japanese havijj entered tho States _ either by SS Francisco or through BriiS Columbia. The migration is s| to have been the direct result of | work of agents of various tral Pacific steamship lines. TQ flooded Japan with statements J}| the United States had sent 60, M soldiers to the Philippines, ip that hundreds of thousands^! workers had gone to Alaska"! search of gold. The positions^ these thousands, they repres«n{| were open to Japanese coolies, M dollar and a half a day. fl emigration laws of Japan J peculiar, for the Governm| endeavours to provide for a needy subject found in a fordf country. Every emigrant, thai fore, has to furnish evidence of J means. No company can m emigrants to any foreign coiinj unless it has agents there to pro! work for the new-comers, and in] large cities of Western Amen there are numbers of age! ostensibly Japanese lodging-Mi keepers, whose secure employe for coolies at" a fixed coinmis&l These agents are called " padroni To prevent the irnporfcatioaf pauper labour the Amen| Government requires each el grant to produce thirty dol!» before landing, bufe this regalal is evaded in many ways. .-,T. Japanese are far more civilised ffi their Chinese neighbours, buti coolies are just as industrious, wo for small wages, live on a fowM a day, and hoard their mondjfjj carry back to their native _lii They are employed on all Wesia railway works, and in mostsbj and gardens, even replacing;! Chinese in the salmon canneffl and in Californian orchards. \l