In this connection it is valuable to note that those treaties so we are informed. are to be followed by a similar agreement with Japan. One of the vexatious questions which is apt to disturb peaceful relations with that newborn world power of the Orient will be whether this country can discriminate against the admission of Japanese laborers. and the status which Japanese subjects shall enjoy in our cities on the Pacific coast. Thus by our own voluntary act we court the menace of. coolie labor. The party to which our President belongs has always avowed deep solicitude for the welfare of American labor. It. has justified the imposition of what they term protective tariffs. on the ground. among others. that a high rate was necessary to safeguard American- labor. Aside from the merits of the protective tariff in this respect. let me ask of what use will it be to levy hightariff taxes in an attempt to keep up for the workingman the American system of living? . Of what value are your schedules if the cheap coolie labor of the East could be landed by thousands on our western coast to imperil the American rate of wages? The gentleman from Missouri expressed surprise that the Central Labor Union of. Washington should have opposed the treaties.