Show JAPS IN AMERICA if iiii T he portland Oreg onlan Is authority y for he statement that april last japanese landed at victoria and most t them found their way to the united states these laborers are taking the places of on the railroads and already in california the displacing of the old section hands has caused rioting and bloodshed japan la a thickly populated country teetotal tEt total number of subjects of ahe mikado being estimated at or a little more than halt the number of people in ibe united states A majority of these little brown men are classed as coolies who struggle bard to make a most miserable livelihood and therefore to them this country offers opportunities as inviting as are the cape nome gold fields to the gold hunters of the pacific coast before him almost a certainty of reap ing a harvest of gold which though to the american a mere trifle when taken back to the land of the rising sun places the possessor above the coolies of his earlier association it Is therefore with no uneasiness ahat the american people watch the flood of human beings setting in from japan to our shores which gives promise of increasing until it becomes as menacing and objectionable as was the chinese immigration prior to the enactment of the exclusion laws we may yet be called upon to treat the japanese as we do the chinese by also excluding them |