TINY BROWN MEN
Are Pouring Over the Pacific Coast.
Chinese Are Also Taking Advantage of the "Native Son" Clause.
By J.S. Tyler

THE TIMES BUREAU
413 Bush Street, San Francisco.

Saturday, April 21.

The agitation against Asiatic labor in this State is growing in importance each day, and although there is no evidence of official collusion in the recent custom house trouble over the landing of "Native Sons," it is evident that the Mongolians are coming in here much faster than the framers of the exclusion act ever believed they would. The Chinese have found that there is a flaw in the law, inasmuch as a "Native Son" can be entered on the sworn testimony of two of his yellow countrymen residing in this city or elsewhere in California. The charge had been made that the collector of customs, Colonel John P. Jackson, and several other parties, have been exceedingly remiss in their duties in allowing the Celestials to come in without protest, at least without remanding them into the custody of the United States Courts for decision of cases.

Collector Jackson, of course, denies positively any complicity in the alleged scheme to land Chinese. He says that the law allows him no alternative other than to land the applicants on presentation of the proper credentials. The "proper credentials," it may be said, however, contain the colored gentleman in the woodpile. The art of manufacturing credentials certainly has been accomplished by some one interested in the increase of our Chinese population for the marked enlargement of the number of Mongolians making application for citizenship and admission as "merchants" is surprising. The new comers have none of the qualities of the saffron youth to the manner born and the merchant has not that repose that stamps the caste of Vere de Vere. They are of pure coolie origin, versed only in the lore of the dragon and speaking just about two English words, "No good," when questioned too closely."

The Little Brown Man.

Now comes the little brown man again with his suave address, also two words, "Good mor'nin'." There is a new consignment of his kind coming in on the Northern overland, and due here tomorrow. The Nippon Maru, which arrived early in the week, brought 246 of his people, who were tagged like saratogas and packed off in express wagons to the Japanese boarding houses, where they were given their lawful allowance of yens and tickets to the fruit districts. There has been an awful howl from the labor unions and there is prospect of trouble in some of the interior cities if the ranchers and wineries persist in employing the Asiatics. The probabilities are that the people will soon call for some legislation to prevent Japanese from coming here after the manner of the Chinese before the exclusion act was declared a law.