Show I Japans Japan's Race Problem I It I seems that Japan has ha been having hav hav- ing a little race raco problem of ot her own Time The details are arc sparingly given by a a native e press pm-ess that courts consistency From Fromn the time parse s-parse spare news accounts an anthe and the editorial comments of or some sonic o of the Tokio Toldo papers it appears that the time importation im lam- of or Chinese laborers s to work on a new railroad line Unc in Kagoshima province has helped to show tho time Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese where hem the shoo shoe in San Francisco Eurl Early In lii July the time contractor to whom the time construction work worl on omi the time railroad had been awarded c imported thirty Chinese laborers Tho wages h he paid were ore I 10 0 yen yeum a month about 5 so gold gold amid all and that was as 50 tier per cent cheaper than titan the hire of Japanese laborers Still the Chinese were ele satisfied sat sat- at- at and amid the they were wele good workmen So plea pleased cd was the Japanese contractor contractor con con- tractor with wih his experiment that he lie sent to China Cuba for tor more and before before be be- fore ore these coolies cooles had hal landed lande at Nagasaki Nag Nag- ag- ag asahi asaki a third consignment of was contracted for with Chinese Chine e emigration Lion tion ton companies In iii Time The naively states stales that the time Japanese laborers took great alarm at the importation of or the time Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese coolies cooles who were weme willing to work for CO halt half of what a t Japanese laborer demanded Mass meetings were held b by the citizens of ot I ken Kagoshima-ken to consider this grave O perU peril to lo th the la laborers Ia- Ia borers of ot Japan as I tho the I puts It I. I S Put But the sentiment of the outraged I la laborers ers of ken Kagoshima did lr t stop at mass mas meetings One On night in inthe tIme the latter hatter Intel part of or July they posted a a notice written in Chinese on tho the doors door of or the Chinese laborers ers huts huls that if it thc they didn't ld t stop working in Japanese men's mens places the they would be bo driven back balt to China j Jle t lie local police officials took ah alarm ahn nat n at the time In Indignation of or the cHien or oC Kagoshima kemi and amid sought from time the central government at Tp at Tp- Tp klo kb Tol Jo realizing the time possibilities oft oll embarrassment In iii an any overt o net aCt a against the thc Chinese or ordered ele the time I of or Ka ken Kagoshima-ken to use their thel utmost utmost ut Ut- ut- ut most powers to protect the foreigners In lii case of ot an nn outbreak and ana then sum summoned um- um mon d the time enterprising enterprising contractor to toa toa a conference in iii Tokio It I happens that an imperial dr Ordinance l- l nance No Xo which was Avas late gated in 1898 1895 19 forbids the employment of ot foreign labor in Japan un tier der cr limited conditions which restricts such employment only to the tho mid aid ld treaty ports where e fore foreigners congre gate ate The Time latest papers papel's from Japan have it I that the contractor has ha either cither unconsciously disobeyed this law Jawor or that he ho Intends s to force forc forca a test tet ca cage cae e. e |