Deseret Evening News | 1900-12-20 | Page 8 | Local News

happy hp he hu has very few wants and lie he can live very ven with hi his family When a man comes along and tells tell him that he can an earn 1 a day over the thi ocean It seems like a fortune to him and h he figures figure out how much he be can save lave how soon lOon lie he can an return to Japan and his bill family a man lIe He goes to and he soon finds find that thata a dollar a day tOes Itoe not go 0 very ery tar far tarm m His food costs coati morE and hp he does not like lib the tbt American food at all then hI his clothes cost coet money he has baa bl his dues due to pay to thE agent and ane he finds that he will have to stay here many years ear be before before fore ho be can hope holM to return home with any money even enough to save lave lila hili passage money home 12 A YE n I Such art are the two sides of tb the ques question tion In the meantime It la a estimated that there R are In the Ihl neighborhood ot of 1000 Jape Japs employed by the varlo rail I road made In the Welt Vest every one ot of whom pays paa hili dollar a month to the bosses 1 who handle burtle theIr affairs It a I is understood that railroad ha has It Its Japanese agent to whom this assessment I is paid every lery month by the themen men under him and lie he In turn divides with the heads head In Portland and San Francisco As Aa the lie consequence there are probably eight men who are living on velvet to the tune of oC a year at the tX expense of their countrymen