Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1908 — QUESTIONABLE REGULATIONS. [ARTICLE]

QUESTIONABLE REGULATIONS.

Is this “the land of the Free and the Home of the Brave’’ when it refuses admittance to 50 Japanese maidens who arrived at Seattle, for whom some of our Japanese residents are anxiously waiting to espouse them? Surely wives are as much a necessity to these industrious people as they are to the Russians and Italians, who* also send for their sweethearts when prosperous enough to support them. Under what law or regulation these Japanese are denied admission is not clear to anyone outside of the immigration bureau, for as the Japanese men are here legally, or they would be deported, one can hardly see good reasons for the denial of allowing them the civilizing influence of wives and children.