Japan only enacted a trademark law and a patent law about a year ago. and the strange thing about it is that In this socalled Gall Bordens condensed milk that is sold over there there is not a drop of milk. it is concocted from a vegetable known as the soy bean. Three or four weeks ago I received a letter from the San Francisco agent of A. G. Spalding & Co.. who are manufacturers of baseball and sporting goods. inclosing a copy of a letter which the home concern had sent to the Tariff Commission. and I desire that the letter be read in my time and as a part of my remarks. It emphasizes the danger from Asiatic competition.