Bisbee daily review., 1908-01-18
MASSES ARE REAL DANGER Subjects of Mikado Firmly Be- live They Can Whip United
 States 0ffhand.

WASHINGTON, Jan. H.-st is be-
 coming plain that the Japanese never l will sign an agreement that their la- | boring subjects shall be forbidden to
 enter the United States. The matter is
 one of pride solely, and it is known | that the American administration will
 be satisfied with verbal agreement,
 if it can be shown in advance that the
 agreement is something beside words, empty words"
 The real danger of war vita Japan
 does not lie with the Japanese oficialse This is said freely in Washington by returning officials, who in their jour
 neyings shave come in touch with east ern sentiment. The danger lies with
 the masses, who have shown their
 ability on one or two occasions to move
 the government The people think they
 can thrash the United States out of hand, and the officials are not able to
 un0eceive them.
 There has been friction with Japan since the close of the lasS great<con- | iflct in the east, but not enough to brings matters to war heat. If 1t keeps
 up, however, war heat will be general. With a full comprehension of the | fact that the Japanese emigration | QuSSllOh lS DCluS L4ouC dh hPSA NchhS issue in the political campaign now in progress in Japan, and a consequent desire to avoid in any way embarrass- ing the Saionji ministry, and perhaps causing its overthrow at the approach ing election, the state department is
 resolutely declining to publish any in
 formation respecting the progress of
 the negotiations with Japan on that | subject.
 The foreign affairs committee of the house is more favorable to the con sideration of the Japanese exclusion bill than it has ever been toward a bill of that character J. Sloat Fassett is supposed to retain his sentiments, which are strongly pro-Oriental, and
 Representative Longworth is expected to support any policy the president may espouse, but among the other
 members is a decided feeling iR favor of taking up the bill for consideration.
 This feeling is strengthened doubt
 less by the failure of Japan to enforce
 her administrative measures for the exclusion of coolies. Since the presf- dents proclamation on March 4th en- 1 joining the restriction of immigration 13 900 Japanese have come to the
 United States through the recognized ports OL RuLTy 6IQ 1S,UOO udF0 GnlcItu | the country mainly from Mexico. At least 1000 have passed through Chihua- hua alone headed for the border A | firm of contractors engaged in building the railroad between Colima and Mexi-
 co City wrote to friend here that in three months they had imported l through a contractor for labor 2000 Japanese to work on the railroad; that the men worked anywhere from one, day to one week, and then disappeared
 withoW applying for their pay. This Is the sort of demand for Japanese
 labor existing in Mexico, and the anx- iety of the Japanese to fill it is ex- plained by the ease of getting across the border. Immediately following the presi- dents proclamation the Japanese fair ly swarmed into the country, 3400 coming in March, 1907, as compared
 with 1883 arriving in the March pre-
 ceding. The rush was occasioned be-
 cause the operation of the regulation excluding Japanese was suspended in
 order that those having started before 1t was announced would not suffer the
 hardships of being turned back, and
 the next month but 2123entered. or SS4
 in excess of the previous April Then began the ruch across the border both from Canada and Mexico. 1t is under stood the exclusion bill will be called
 up in committee immediately. after Fehr1ary 1sf