Show COMING ASIATIC HORDES the leading members of the labor unions of the pacific coast with the history of the struggle against the chinese laborers in the past still arsh in their memory are enactment of the chinese exclusion act when it expires in slay 1902 and they ask that the new law tar the and permanent exclusion from the united states of all japanese other than those accredited to their government on its diplomatic staff the great influx of japanese as causing alarm in labor circles especially since the large railroad combinations have been encouraging the importation por tation of the subjects ot the mikado and have been supplanting white labor with them as was the case on the union pacific between ogden and a few days ago the san francisco examiner has taken up the cause of the laboring men and in a vigorous editorial referring to the chinese exclusion act makes these observations the demand tor the passage lar laws against japanese laborers comes none too soon japanese immigration Is increasing rapidly and threatens to become even more serious than was the influx of the chinese e tore the passage ol 01 the the japanese demand fewer colfo arts and can live on much less than will support a white man therefore they will work for less wages and it they are allowed to come in numbers will drive the whites out of any line of industry in which they may engage the danger is a serious one the population of japan is rapidly increasing and there Is a surplus of labor seeking other lands in which to better itself A hundred thousand chinese upset our industries and brought great suffering upon the white laborers of the pacific coast japan could send hither several times laborers and never miss them from her crowded shores at the present rate of increase it will be but a few years before that number is here there is but one way to prevent this invasion and that is to pass such a law as has prevented an increase in our chinese population let congress prohibit the coming of any japanese laborer we have fought out once the question whether the civilization ot the coast shall be asiatic or american and won the battle for america but it is evident that the battle must be fought once more the white people of the coast need not flatter themselves that the itaska before them is easy the contest is going to be waged tor the other side by shrewd accomplished men who are determined not only to prevent new barriers being raised but to break down those barriers that have been erected they will have the support of those employers who look no further than to the advantage of getting cheap jabor for their enterprises of the transportation interests and of the fco called humanitarians of the east it is tameo get out and work |