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Dear my good friend,
Starting a new life is hard for use but we decided to come here because of the open opportunities that there are here and the land that is almost free to take. Back in Asia there was not much freedom and there were strict rules to follow. In America there are so many jobs and we can work anywhere. The voyage over to the United States was not a very good one. The lower class families that could not afford cabins had to ride in the steerage, which was a large are under the deck. We had limited privacy and poor facilities and living conditions, but fortunately the tickets were cheap. Once we got to the “Golden Doors” and docked they saw that my little baby boy was sick and the immediately quarantined my family. Luckily they found nothing wrong and let us into the United States. We did not pay for the passageway over the ocean and so we had to work on the railroad that they are building across the whole United States. The railroad work was hard labor and we usually worked for long periods of time. Once we paid off our debt to our employer we were able to go and look for other jobs and land to settle and call our own land. We found many places that we would have loved to live but unfortunately the people had restrictive covenants which were agreements not to sell real estate to certain ethnic groups which just happened to be Asians. Finally we found a community that was only Asians and we really fit right in. The Americans called our neighborhood a Ghetto because it was made up of mostly Asians. While we were here they made a new act called the Chinese exclusion act, this act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country. Fortunately for us it did not prevent entry for those of us who had established residency in the United States. The school board in San Francisco ruled that all Chinese, Japanese, or Korean children should attend different schools then the Americans. This made the government back in Japan angry and they told the...