The San Francisco call., 1898-02-08
A JAPANESE INVASION.

n EPORTS from Hawaii are to the effect that a h syndicate i'll Japan is arranging to transport about 5000 Japanese laborers to the Klondke gold diggings this summer Most of the aborers are to be taken, 1t IS said, from cooes now employed in the Hawaiian Islands, but considerable numbers will o course, be carried direct from Japan itself and it IS equally a matter of that If the venture prove profitable this year, there will be large in crease in the number sent to the diggings in the following
 As the cooies are to be taken to Canadian terri tory and the syndicate, it is said will arrange to transport them without landing on American soil, the matter is one with which cannot directly interfere It is for the Canadian Government to decide whether the proposed Asatic invasion of the gold fields will be permitted. If Canada consents to admit the coolies to free competition with her white miners then the United States will have watch the Alas kan mining districts carefully for once established on the Kondike 1t will be easy for the Japanese spread over the whole Yukon Valley
 European aggression on the Chinese coast makes much noise and attracts the attention of the whole world. A thousand dplomatists and ten thousand newspapers kept busy in giving warnings of the disasters likely to result from that invasion Never tleless 1t is doubtful if the accomplishment of all that Russia and Germany aim at on the coast of China would seriously affect civilization as would 1ree adlsSlon o cooieS to any part of the Pacific Coast of America. The one invasion goes forward with beating of drums and the roar of guns of mighty warships, while the other is as silent as the spreading of pestlence, but the pestlence is more terrible than the battle.
 The white and the yellow man are face to face in struggle for supremacy on both sides of the Pacific. While the white man of Europe aims at political domination in Asia, the yellow man aims at industrial domination the American coast The Chinese and the Japanese are hereditary foes but in this issue they work together with common will, and the exclusion of the will be futile the other be admitted
 The people of the United States have therefore great though indirect, interest in the proposed in- troduction of coolie labor into the Klondike The home of no man is safe when pestience has found its way to the house of his hext-door neighbor Coolie labor in the upper Yukon Valley will sooner or later affect the white miner who develops the pa cers in the United States territory lower down.
 The issue is one of growing importance, because the danger of an Asiatc industrial invasion of the American coast increases with the years. Even der present conditions it has been found impossible to wholly exclude Chinese from the country It is easy to see that the difficulty of guarding the white labor of the Union will be much greater if Hawaii is annexed if coole labor gets footing in Alaska The issue at present is in the hands of Canada, but so far as the Government the people of the United States can do they should exert every influence prevent the consummation of the Japanese scheme.