The Times and the Japanese.

Many comments have reached this office approving the editorial printed in The Sunday Times of May 11. "What the Japanese Could Do in Case of War." A letter from which the following extracts are taken is a characteristic expression:

"I have always felt most deeply and keenly on the California-Japanese imbroglio, "ever since the imbecile jingoes and renegade Progressives started their criminal and untimely anti-alien campaign: and consequently I have always read any writings in connection with it with true interest and full appreciation.

"I hold that every man and woman on this whole Pacific Coast should read that, editorial and ponder over it. Besides, it should be sent to every one of our Congressman and Senators in Washington, as well to the governors of every state in the Union.

"It is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth," and it should be specially brought to the notice of those to whom it will be likely to do the most good."

A diametrically opposite view is taken by a citizen who bewails the publication because it must have given valuable information into the hands of the Japanese.

This citizen, needless to say, is blissfully unconscious of the fact that the energetic "Yankees of the Orient" have been busy with the camera all over the Pacific Coast and have more accurate knowledge of conditions than have large numbers of Americans.