Calculation of Interests (Cont’d)
If the existence of those caves only sow seeds of obstacles for the development of straight businesses by defaming the Japanese and causing trouble, the last question we can ask to figure out the interests of caves is whether they have merits or demerits from an economic standpoint.
Let me explain this for a little while. Indeed, they could gain extraordinary income, which is incomparable to what other serious businesses make. However, their economy is in direct proportion to the economy at large and they would not be able to always have a good economy and live cheerfully even when the rest of the society is undergoing great depression. Just like the rest of society, they also spend days making hundreds of complaints and never ending whining.
Let us say they are permanently fortunate, always make profits and anticipate an easy future. But what would the money they make mean to the fellow Japanese? Even if they make a few thousand dollars in a few years that is not much, and in reality, not every single cave in the interior makes a lot of profit. Only few devil-kinds among dozens of houses are able to move around a sum of money larger than one thousand.
Prostitutes would save some of the money they make. However, most of it goes to their lovers’ pockets and those men always waste money on gambling in Chinatown. They gluttonously seek pleasure in barbarous directions. None has a smart idea.
Therefore, no matter how much profit they make it does not have any positive impact on the fellow Japanese in general except for those who have minor business relations with them to supply them with daily items. But even that only accounts one hair among nine oxen.
Defending Canadian caves by citing examples of Singapore or Manchuria is utterly foolish. That would be a useless argument, unfounded in the local reality.
To summarize the result of our experimental calculation of interests regarding the existence of caves, I say that they produce a hundred losses and almost no gain and they only block and hinder the development of fellows. By borrowing the words of Judge Alexander from the court of Vancouver, they truly represent the lowest class of mankind or they are monsters wearing human masks. It is interesting that Mr. Alexander happened to translate “aka-oni (red monster)” and “ao-oni (green monster)” into English as “monster”.