Show I I THE JAPANESE INVASION I Immigration Commissioner Powderly makes the official statement that 44 7 Japanese laborers haVe h entered th thA I United States in the nine nire months end ending endIng ing lut March Karch 31 81 He says ys further there is isDO no DO adequate record of oZ those immigrants b grants who come from flOm over toe tIe Cana CaHa Canadian dian dlan be lx derr der dery Steamship reports would indicate that at least 1 SOGO or more Asi Asiatic AsiatIc have entered the country most of them the plse Pl of white men menon menon menOn on railroad and other construction tion work The yellow men are docile enn eni en and accustomed to work vork for less and live on less 1 than any tny white whiteman whiteman whiteman man could exist on They arc are better than the Chinese oodles coolies in that they I are less inclined to crime e they adapt themselves to American Amerlean ways mora more readily and are more intelligent But their competition is J Just just as disastrous for the American workingman and its certain economic eco mic te Is just as deadly a to labor in th the west ivest Apparently I the federal officials are making i ino no effort to stop these inroads ads of ot od aliens Protection Protection to trust manufacturers is 18 all right in their view but protection to labor is isa a different mat matter matter matter ter So Ion lonh as the Japanese furnish cheap labor to the railroad ad corpora corporations corD ora floes which contribute liberally to Ke Re I publican there will be beno beno beno no hurry about stopping the Japanese Japan That some drastic measures will have to be taken is k evident evid t and it Is equally plain that nothing will be done until there is a 8 change of administration tion in Washington |