Iuka Reporter

The Japanese Government is showing wisdom in its action regarding emigration to the United States, and to other countries, remarks the Baltimore American. The people of Japan are, as a rule, fond of their beautiful empire, and rarely leave it unless they go out as laborers, under contract with promise of good pay and safe return to their native country as soon as their fixed term of service is over. The alien contract law of the United States forbids the admission of such laborers, and at the port of San Francisco several Japanese have been denied the right to land and sent back home. The Japanese Government has, therefore, made a law that no emigrants whose admission would be contrary to the laws of any other country shall be allowed to leave that empire. If China and the countries on the continent of Europe would pass and enforce such a law, the United States would find the enforcement of its emigration provisions very simple matter.