Show FLEET SERVES A PURPOSE ono reason why tho battleship fleet la on the pacina coast is disclosed by a washington correspondent who gays that while japan is offering every assurance of its ability and disposition to stop the emigration of japanese laborers president roosevelt is not disposed to permit japan to escape responsibility for tho surreptitious entrance of laborers for the reason that that country has claimed to be in a position to regulate satisfactorily the emigration of its people the presence of the battleship fleet in the pacific enabling him to take a stand which waa not when it was unorganized and the ships now corn it were on tho atlantic coast no threat ot force is contemplated against japan but there is little doubt that the fact that the fleet is ready for business have a deterrent effect upon an outburst of japanese jingoism should t become necessary for tho president to recommend the enactment of an exclusion law the policy f the administration is to proceed with due regard to japanese rights and feeling but the continued entrance of laborers from the far eastern islands is a violation of a formal agreement made between the united states and japan and cannot bo tolerated the mexican and canadian frontiers are long and tt is difficult to guard every point then under the regulations of the bureau of immigration every japanese arrested is permitted to appeal to the secretary of the department of commerce and labor and to communicate with his embassy there has been apprehension that japan might have cause tor fresn I 1 grievances should any of its subjects even when legally arrested be harah ly treated and to prevent anything of the kind the bureau that they receive every consideration and courtesy the observance of this instruction st by immigration agents undoubtedly has prevented serious trouble |