I am, indeed, sorry to own that prostitution does exist in Japan.
Is America free from it? The vice commission of Chicago and
the recent investigation of “white slavery” in New York will fur-
nish an abundance of materials to Messrs. Hayes of Japan to
effectively indict American morality. “The man of the world
finds the Japanese immoral, not remembering that vice is every-
where near him that seeks it,” says Dr. Jordan. At any rate, I
refuse to be a Mr. Hayes, here or in Japan.

Then he arrays the kind of statistics that will prove anything.
“I am giving statistics showing the relative wages of the Mon-
golian, especially the Japanese, and the white man. And I want
to say, in passing, that these statistics were gathered by the Japa-
nese and Korean Exclusion League of San Francisco. I can not
vouch for their accuracy, but have no doubt that they are substan-
tially correct.’’ Imagine what follows from such authentic sources.
Enough has been said on this point already, and we shall not
honor Mr. Hayes in quoting from him further.

Nor need I enumerate reasons for the existence of The Asiatic
Exclusion League (recently disorganized) and agitators against
Japanese. They are guided neither by patriotism nor even by
chauvinism, but by money-getting and vote-getting motives. Ac-
cordingly, they play with mobs with their mob psychology, and
they have already done much mischief which now and then
strained the friendly relation between the United States and
Japan. Will the intelligent American public tolerate continuance
of their vile agitation to make Japanese haters of Americans just
to convenience selfish interests of a few unscrupulous individuals,
when their immigration was practically stopped in 1907?

   
 
 
   

_ Not satisfied with the prohibition of Japanese immigration, or
derhaps because it was no longer possible to wage wars against
jon-existing immigration, the agitators now directed their cam-
oaign against the Japanese residents. Thus it was that the State
-egislature of 1909 was swamped with anti-Japanese bills of every
lescription, all aiming at interference with industrial activities
of Japanese immigrants in the State. However, because of the
resident's intervention they all failed to pass. Among those, of

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