Looking at It as a purely business or commercial problem. there is serious objection by our own laboring classes to the incoming of Japanese laborers because it is claimed that American labor can not compete with Japanese. sometimes called cheap Japanese labor. This claim is not without foundation. not because Japanese laborers work for less wages than American laborers. but because on account of their different manner of living they can exist and prosper on less wages than our own wage earners. the tendency of which is to degrade labor and force the American laborer to debase himself to the manner of living of his Japanese competitor or abandon the field to him. It will be found also that similar grounds of complaint enter into the objections made to the right of the Japanese immigrants to becoming landowners alongside of and in competition with the American farmer. The relatidns between the oriental and occidental nations and the problems presented by theril have been the subject of consideration and study by many people on both sides and have resulted in the writing of many books dealing with the problem. In addition to my own views. the result of no little conscientious consideration and study of the subject and its probable consequences.
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Japanese laborers can exist and prosper on less wages than American laborers, which degrades labor.