They are now landing at the port of San Francisco at the rate of about 1.000 per month. This. you may say. is not very serious. But every one of these thousand monthly immigrants takes a job that would otherwise be given to a white man. and the matter becomes even more serious when you consider the rapid increase in this immigration in the past six years. Up to 1900 but few Japanese had come to this country. In that year 12.635 came. and since 1900. 76.737 Japanese have landed in this country. and this has come about without any artificial stimulant. The fear of what will undoubtedly happen when the immigration agent.begins to put in his work. as he is doing it in southern Europe. is filling the mind of the people of the Padific coast with apprehension. The thought of what will happen when some of tie big Chinese companies now supplying different parts of the world with Chinese coolies awake to the possibiliti.5 in the shipping of Japanese coolies to this country is making the people of all classes in California desire that something be done to provide against this certain danger. The following news item gives some idea of what is taking place in Hawaii at this time. and the same system is sure to 1)e worked on a larger scale in the United States unless our people are aroused to the danger and take steps to prevent it:
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