While in the United States there is about $38 per capita: il France. $48. in the British Empire. $47: in (4ernany. $20.10. and in Spain. $22 per capita . and -it is therefore ten times more difficult to get $1 gold by labor ili Japan than in our country. Japanese laborers are. therefore. willing to do the same amount of labor as an American in California for muich less noney timal all American voter. aIl( as tile American laborer and American voter are one and tIle SlllCne person and exercise political control of the States affairs. we have been disturbed nationally by the socalled Japanese problem on the Pacific. It is because tihe Japanese call and will work for less than an American that this conflict of interest has arisen. and therefore that steps have been taken to prevent an ingress into our coanitry of oriental laborers by the Chinese exclusion act and the gentlemens agreement by which tile Japanese should not enlarge their numbers in our country. Some of the Japanese have appeared tothink that protesting California citizens were moved by a lnere race hostility to them. and from a fancied superiority to the Japanese as such. whereas if there is in the world a country which has shown a freedom from race hostility it is America. that has not hesitated to oper its doors to all laborers throughout tie world who have been accustomed to a high gold per capita and who have demanded an American wage. aInd who were not so skillful ii competition and so economical in habits as to compel the Amneriban laborers to lower their wage. It is the good qualities of very economical habits and efficiency that has made the American voter unwilling to suffer this damaging competition.
Identified stereotypes
Japanese laborers are portrayed as willing to work for less money and having economical habits, creating damaging competition for American laborers.