The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 30, 1919, Page 1

INVITE SEN. JONES TO HEAR JAP QUESTION An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Tides in Seattle WEDNESDAY THURSDAY JULY 30 | JuLy First Low Tide am, 42 ft ‘Piest High Tide Tit am, 96 ft Second Low Tide Tide Second Low Tide m., U7 ft The Seattle Star Entered ar Second Class Matter May 8, 1899, at the Postofficy at pet, Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 eee VOLUME 22. NO. 133. JAPANESE PICTURE BRIDES AR SWARMIING HER @Sixteen hundred Japanese picture brides enter the Port of Seattle every WHITE» JAP--WHICH? Shall the Pacific Coast be Japanized? ‘This is the ONE big question raised by ler Freeman’s interview in The Star. _ And it is the one question which Editor . K. Arima, of the North American imes, the Japanese daily published here, ‘AILS to answer. Tt is not a question of how energetic, or industrious, table, or moral the Japanese are, nor how prolific ir women are. A they are a great race, e question still remains: ‘Shall t this Coast be under hite control, or under the Japanese?” “Mr. Freeman seems to fear that Japanese women vill bear many children,” says Arima. “I would ask m whether any human, or body of humans, has the at to restrict ‘the birth of children of any race.” Arima misses the point. We can readily agree that, from a itis NOT right to impose -birth restrictions A any race. But birth control is NOT the issue. Let the Jap- | multiply as rapidly as nature will permit them in Japan. t is their right. It is their privilege. Bat it is also the right of the Americans to have and to hold | eir own country against Japanese invasion and ownership. At is because Japanese women are prolific that they present ace to the Pacific coast. We do not deny their right to birth to children. But we view with 6 Tian the ever- population of Japanese on the Pacific coast. le do not want on this coast the strife and the agony the South has had to endure over. the negro question. Megroes were not to blame. They were victimized and ted. Nevertheless their presence in the South led to a ly four years’ war among brothers. This we would avert on the coast. If we check the ever-growing racial ation NOW, we can avoid war. As ve delay, the remedy will have to be nore drastic. In the Sacramento valley of California, the country is : ed already. It does not make for a healthy condition affairs. Hatred is cropping out where, under other condi- , friendly relations ought to continue. The very fact that both the United States government the Japanese government entered into the so-called “gen- flemen’s agreement” is a recognition of the stern fact that the 'Japanizing of the coast cannot be tolerated. ; By the terms of the “gentlemen’s agreement,” it was in- “tended that the Japanese menace on the coast should dimin- ish. It was intended that Japanese population on the coast should be held in check. F If, thru the “picture Sride” system, or other means, Japa-‘ “nese population continues to grow here, then the “gentlemen’s agreement” is being violated in spirit if not in the letter of the contract. _ It is not the restriction of the Japanese birth rate which is now sought. It is the restriction of Japanese domination of the ‘Pacific coast which is demanded. We are face to face with conditions, not theories. The Japanese cannot be assimilated. They cannot become an integral part of this nation. They cannot be a part of America. Always they remain a part of Japan. Is it wise, then, for either Japan or the United States, to let a condition, which is bound to result in grave trouble, continue? Or shall we check the menace RIGHT NOW? ¢ & & & The answer seems plain. SEATTLE, WASH., WED SDAY, JULY 30, 1919. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Your, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.09 Weather Forecast: Tonight and Thursday, fait: gentle northwesterly winds. Confer on Japanese Thursday American Legion Officers Indorse Freeman’s Plan; Plan Conference Senator Wesley L. Jones and Congressman Albert Johnson will be asked by a committee from the Mutual Business Men's club and the American Legion to bring the Japanese menace on the Pacific Coast before congress. An effort to have Senator Jones attend a conference of leaders of the club and American Legion The special committee of the Mu- tual Business Men's club, which wilt meet with the American Legion men will consider the recommendations | made by Miller Freeman, of the State Veterans’ Welfare Commission. Free- | man urged that state and federal in | vestigations be made and the United States government approach the Jap- anese government with a proposal for the gradual deportation of Japanese in this count: y. This meeting is expected to take | the first steps to call federal atten- tion to the Japanese question in | Washington. Expect Legion Help The backing of the American Le- gion for the entire program suggest. jed by Miller Freeman ix expected, as | the plan has the indorsement of Jack | Bullivan, national vice president of |the veterans’ order, and Norman Cole, secretary, | The detailed report of R. H. Ma- |hon, who has been investigating the Japanese menace in Seattle for the | Mutual Business Men's club, will be | laid before the Thursday conference, |For this reason the backers of the move are trying to have Senator Jones attend, so they can give him | first-hand information. | Investigations that show, it is re. ported, Japanese are violating the |laws by holding land, or violating | the spirit of the law by holding long | period leases, have been made, and | the facts will be put before the sen- ator. It is also planned to request L. L. Thompson, state attorney general, to make an investigation, and if his department has no authority, to call on Gov. Louis F, Hart for help. Japanized! Here's what the Ja or control in and near § t Hundreds of acres of the best farm land. Scores of are operated filthy condition Many wholesale and retail meat markets, and constantly en- croaching on white owners. The city public market. The Oriental Trading Co., wholesale house, which supports Japanese retailers and helps break down white competition. More than a score of restau rants which are served by Jap farmers and Jap wholesalers. One hundred and thirty-six of Seattle's grocery stores. More than a score of barber shops. Two hundred and fifteen of Se- attle's hotels, Whites only con trol 281 now. Many of Seattle's dye works and junk shops. Ten of the downtown moving picture shows. Several of the ment houses. A number of garages and auto repair shops. Several importing and export ing companies, More than a score of clothing and shoe stores. Dozens of fruit stands, clgar stands, soft drink stands and pool rooms, “ vhich bly hog in farms, unsp largest apart. | with | the conferences. Ohio Launching | High Food Fight jedge of price-fixing. year on an average. @ These brides are claimed by Japanese husbands. @It is these brides who rear five children to every babe born to Ameri parents. PROPERTY IN them helpless. 4 THIS STATE BECAUSE THEY ARE CLASSED — AMERICAN CITIZENS. @ This fact accounts for the feverish influx of picture brides, not to mentiol the fabulous wages to be earned by these very picture brides when com: pared to the mite they earned in their native land. @ Immigration officials would like nothing better than to stem the tide 0 Japanese immigrants, male and female, but the picture bride system 600 Came Here Last Year Typical “picture brides” who come to Seattle—and see their hus- bands for the first time. What Is a “Picture Bride”? The term bride,” few Americans realize “Japanese picture is common enough, but the pro. cedure. Here's the way it is done A Japanese in ®, say, desires to marry a girl back in Japan, He may never have seen or heard of her, He does not wish to go back to Japan for her. But he marries her by proxy. That is to say, the Seattle Japa- nese sends word to a male friend in Japan that he, the friend, is to marry the gjrl for him. Upon the marriage, the girl's picture is affixed to a passport, which is vised by immigration officials in Japan,’ The girl is allowed to take ship for Seattle, Upon her arrival here she 4s held at the immigration station until her proxy-husband arrives to claim her, F spt for these “picture brides,” few Japanese women come here. Up to May, 1917, the marriage overseas was held not binding, and a second cere mony was performed, in accord- ance with American rites, upon rival of the picture bride tle. Since that time, how yer, the original ceremony, in Japan has been held sufficient by the courts Sixteen hundred such brides passed thru the Seattle immigra tion station every year for the past three rs. COLUMBUS, Ohio, July — 30.— Ohio's fight against high food prices was launched in earnest here today| the gathering of prosecutors) from the 8% counties. Governor Cox | and Attorney General Price directed | Evidence of price manipulation poured in on Price from all parts) of the state. This evidence came in| the form of hundreds of letters and telegrams from housewives who were invited to submit their knowl- Cox said he hoped to curb prices by prosecution of persons guilty of manipulation of foodstuffs, rigid en- forcement of the cold storage laws and perhaps a new system of licens- ing food dealers, SMALL BOY DROWNED KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., July 30, —Falling into the United States rec- lamation service irr ion canal last night, Robert Holli , drowned, The boy was playing, lost his bal- | ance and fell into the water, VICTOR BUCHANAN I'd like to buy a little farm, Where profiteers can do no harm; On Star want ads I can rely, They'll show me just the farm to buy, If you'll read the For Sale Farm Lands column of The Star, the chances are you can find “just the farm to buy.” | For the fiscal year ended Japanese women arrived: in cial records. were admitted. population of Seattle. that Japanese mothers bear by leaps and bounds. what do about it? Nothing, except to vise the pic- ture bride’s passports and the pre tensions of the husband. “Tt is a serious mistake to admit immigrants who cannot and will not be assimilated by the American pop: ulation,” a high immigration offi- cial said today. “The Japanese herd | together, rear offspring with won derfal productivity, and live their own lives. Even in our midst, the Japanese is a thing apart. He might | as well live on the planet Mars so far‘as his assimilation by our popu- lation is concerned. Impossible to Assimilate “To me the crux of the evil lies an immigration official miscegenate with our white popula- tion. Of course, there is no desire on the part of Americans to assimi- late its Japanese population, but the very fact of its impossibilit itself into a grave mena can welfare on th truth of this « resolves *acific coast. The of Japanese husbands and American | wives. Pigmentary preference, be it | black, brown, red or yellow, leads to | nothing but grief. “That being so, we are confronted | with a growing Japanese population, growing at the rate of thousands a | dan alien population that is absorbing American industries at an |alarming rate, The menace cannot be emphasized too greatly, Officials Helpless elpless when it comes to bar ring them out. We are compelled to | interpret the law we find it—and Junder the law there is nothing to prevent the Japanese from flooding this coast. The only Japanese we can and do bar is the laborer and the immoral woman, “I do not decry the industry and the sobriety of the Japanese, but we Jof the immigration ser cannot but see the growth of Japane: fluence in Seattle and on the in general, “Deportation of problem which is ex at the present time, treaty is hanging fire ¢ involved in the Shantung y. It may be that Jap migration to the Pacific coas dwindle if the Japanese acquire un- disputed title to the Shantung, even so, Seattle, “The fact that the Japanese con trol the public markets, own half of the hotels in Seattle and are spreading thruout various industries is enough to arouse Americans. But what can we do about it? The law allows the Japanese immigrant to land in Seattle, the problem remains with | in the inability of the Japanese to} Ameri- | ertion is apparent |4 when you sean the unhappy unions | ve in the immigration service | 4 but | June 80, 1919, a total o f 3 Seattle. from the’ 0 ae to figures compiled by The Star today fre A vast majority of them turned up as picture’ and’were so claimed by male Japanese who app the immigration station in Seattle. During the same period a total of 1,651 male J; In other words, a total of 3,283 Jap male and female, were admitted to the Port of Seat and that is a fair average annual increase in the Jaj Add to this Japanese influx five times as many as American mothers and it will be seen that the Ji population of Seattle is outstripping American popu He does not enter the United § unless he can prove to our tion that he comes not as a Ii The Japanese woman immigran not enter this country if she © |for immoral purposes. “The wonderful wealth to be cumulated by the Japanese, pared with the pittance for’ | they labored at home, is the conti ling impulse which has resulted | the Japanese problem we face The woman works like a horse, her husband does the same. | |Japanese knows no hours. He caf | raise two crops where only one ¢ grew before.” “Under the law, no Japanese own land in Washington. But th is nothing to prevent the child 6 the Japanese, who is regarded as” America’ izen, from owning and property. And that ig what haps |pens. Title to land and property, in the United States can be held in- |the name of the child, and nobody ean deny them that right. If grad egenation resulted from Jap | mmigration the problem would t be so irksome, but the Japanese jeannot and will not be absorbed by our white population, Deportation Not Feasible “What is to be the solution of this vexatious problem is not for me to say. I do not believe that gradual deportation would solve it, for the reason that by the time such an |event could transpire, the holdings jof Japanese in the United States lly be invested in Jap. n, whom, under the law, American citizens, believe that the Japanese ;Menace is very grave in Seattle and the Northwest. As The Star has said, the question is not whether the | Japanese makes a better landlord or |a better farmer, but whether this is lto remain a white man's land. It seems to me that the solution of this problem is a matter for immedi- ate governmental action.” Washington Annex }Owned by Whites The Washington Annex hotel is owned and operated by T. HL Gowman and L, R. Stanley. The hotel has not been in any wise owned or managed by Japanese, This is printed in fairness to the Washington Annex, | | Liberty Bonds Quoted ae YORK, July | 80.—Liberty bond quotations today: 3144's, $99, $94.38; second 4's, $ $94.80; second 49's, “We investigate every single im- | $96.10; fourth 44's, $9 migrant who steps from a steamship, | $!9-90; Victory 4%'s, §}