Show THE YELLOW PERIL it the recent trip of congressman mckinlay to the orient described in a california paper shall yield nothing besides the assurance which ho brings from japan it was a journey well worth the making mr mckinlay was accorded two interviews by the marquis ito president of the elders and the mikado the boxt important figure in the political life of the island empire in one of cheso talks mr mckinlay made bold to speak in plain terms oe the growing fear in this country with respect to japanese immigration there are many he told the marquis who look upon the coming of the little brown men as a menace not only to our industry but 0 o our politics already one important newspaper of san fancisco ran cisco has taken an aggressive stand against tho japanese and public hag exhibited many blons of nervousness iu the bame connection would the mi government asked mr mckinlay take offensively measures likely to be proposed in the united stales looking to restriction of japanese immigration just as such measures were taken twenty years ago in the casa of the chinese at this the japanese statesman shrugged bis shoulders after the manner of a man dealing with an unpleasant subject but hla spoken reply was in perfect temper in effect he said your people need have no concern about the intrusion of our people into your country for the movement which has been so noticeable of late must speedily be checked by natural causes events have almost suddenly increased our responsibilities in our home field and we ceball tor many years to come leavo domestic need for all our own people in repairing the losses and wastes of the war at home e shall need a vant addition to our forces of labor and production hence fewer CAH bo spared than la former years wo have too in korea and in manchuria now duties and opportunities calling tor many thousands of japanese handa again the war andeits results have amazingly stimulated our industrial ambition while at the game timo affording reasonable hope of a large outlet for whatever we may be able to produce you have only to look about you to see that we are making important advances in many lines of manufacture old establishments are everywhere being enlarged establish meats are being built up enterprises terp rises employment at home for many thousands of busy bandi you may assure your and your countrymen that japan in its important enterprises demands ho industry of all its own people not only today but for many years to come therodore thero tore I 1 say nobody need elvo hlin concern for the intrusion of japanese in offensive numbers neither in our own country nor any other cheso statements with his general observations were enough to convince mr mckinlay that the active movement of japanese to the united stated is for a time at least practically over of course will not wholly cease but we aie not likely to duplicate iho record of the past two or three years when every incoming steamer from yokohama or honolulu has brought its contribution to the oriental colonies here sir AIcKin lay is convinced from his talks and observations in japan that at least for the present no radical step need be taken in the line of restriction since it would be useless to make nn effort to check a tide which has already turned he observed as havo others before that the japanese government is exceedingly sensitive with respect to matters of this kind and ho thinks it would bo infinitely better it the movement of japanese to this country ahall cease under influences already in motion on both bides of the pacific rather than by a social and political agitation which would almost certainly alvo often sc disturb the amity which has marked the relationship of the two countries tor more than half a century and possibly affect to its injury a commerce steadily grow ing between the two countries |