========================================================================= | In possession of proper passports. | Fiscal| Entitled to passports under | Year | "Gentlemen's Agreement." | Ending|------------------------------------------------------------------ June. | Former | Parents, | Settled | Not | Without |Total. |Residents.| Wives, |Agriculturists.| Entitled | Proper | | | and | | to |Passports.| | | Children | |Passports.| | | | of | | | | | |Residents.| | | | ------|----------|----------|---------------|----------|----------|------ 1910 | 245 | 373 | 1 | 47 | 39 | 705 1911 | 351 | 268 | .. | 88 | 25 | 732 1912 | 602 | 224 | .. | 60 | 27 | 913 1913 | 1,175 | 178 | .. | 41 | 13 | 1,407 1914 | 1,514 | 119 | .. | 84 | 51 | 1,768 1915 | 1,545 | 585 | 1 | 54 | 29 | 2,214 1916 | 1,695 | 1,199 | 2 | 39 | 78 | 3,013 1917 | 1,647 | 1,115 | .. | 36 | 87 | 2,885 1918 | 1,774 | 507 | .. | 88 | 235 | 2,604 1919 | 1,265 | 422 | .. | 48 | 241 | 1,976 |----------|----------|---------------|----------|----------|------ Total | 11,813 | 4,990 | 4 | 585 | 825 |18,217 ========================================================================= The table indicates that out of the total immigration of 18,217 from 1909 to 1920, 11,813 of this number were people who temporarily visited Japan; 4990 belonged to the families of residents; 4 were "settled agriculturists," and 585 were persons not entitled, for reasons unexplained, to passports. It also shows that 825 were persons without proper passports. The latter category included immigrants bound for Canada, Mexico, and South America who were sidetracked on the way, those who lost their passports, as well as deserting seamen and smugglers. For these cases of illicit endeavors to enter America, the Japanese Government can hardly be held responsible. It would be absurd to put forth the negligible number of 585 cases, that are recorded during the period of ten years as persons who are not entitled to passports, as an evasion of the "Gentlemen's Agreement" on the part of the Tokyo Government. It is one thing to point out the defects of the agreement, but it is an entirely different matter to charge bad faith in its execution.