KEEP JAPS OUT IS THEIR SLOGAN

Mongolian Exclusion Society of This City, Will Try to Stop Oriental Immigration in Interest of White Labor.

Formed for Purpose of Fighting So-Called Yellow Peril, Society Appeals to Pres of the United States.

"Exclude all Japs and Chinese from the United States!"

This is the slogan of a newly formed organization of this city. It is called the Mongolian Exclusion Society, and its members seem to have little use for the little brown men who come to America from the Far East to make their fortunes.

A.E. Fowler of 2719 Elmwood Place is the secretary of the society. He is also secretary of the Federal Labor Union. In the Mongolian society are many labor union men, and it is their aim to make the movement a national one.

A day or so ago The Times received three printed postal cards in the same mail signed by different people making an urgent plea for national support of the society. They are headed in large letters. "To the Press of the United States," and their contents follow:

Fear Displacement of White.

"This circular is part of the propaganda of the Mongolian Exclusion Society, and is a request from the undersigned, a citizen of the United States, that the influence of your publication be cast on the side of American citizenship and white labor, and against the immigration of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other branches of the Mongolian race for the purpose of displacing white labor.

"Hawaii is already 90 per cent Oriental. White labor has been driven from the islands. Shiploads of Japanese contract coolies are arriving in the United States ports. United action for their exclusion is imperative.

"Forty-five per cent of all the immigrants to the State of Washington in 1904 were Japanese."

While Seattle was doing her best to show honor to Baron Komura and other distinguished members of the Japanese peace legation a reporter of The Times journeyed out to 2719 Elmwood Place in order to get from Mr. Fowler a slight idea of why the Mongolian Exclusion Society yearned so much to keep Orientals from coming to the land of the free, and how they intended to do it. Elmwood Place runs from Twenty-seventh South to Twenty-ninth Avenue South, between Norman and Judkins Street. It is not exactly in the heart of the city, and is reached only after wandering through fields and scrambling over fences.

Orientals Menace to Americans.

Mr. Fowler was not at home. His house is for the rent and evidently contains no furniture. Neighbors were unable to tell where the secretary of the society now resides, although he is seen in the neighborhood occasionally. A search down town, however, resulted in the discovery of a man named Smith who says he is a member of the organization and who himself has sent out a number of the postal cards asking for the cooperation of the American press. Said Mr. Smith:

"The postals give practically all the necessary information. The society believes that the presence of Orientals in the United States is a menace to the prosperity of American workmen. We, therefore, want an exclusion act passed against the Japanese and the Koreans the same as against the Chinese. While we would like to exclude all the Orientals now in the United States, we will be content to see the immigration cease from now on and let the fellows who are here stay if they want to.

"Papers throughout the United States are receiving our circulars. We hope for a great general support of the movement. If we get it we will see that Congress if forced to take up the subject and pass the necessary exclusion law. It has got to come some time, and might as well come immediately."

"Do the Japs enter into serious competition with American workmen at the present time?" asked the reporter.

Yellow Peril at Our Doors.

"They certainly do," replied Mr. Smith, "although not so much so as the Chinese. The yellow peril is right at our doors. The Japs and Chinese have lowered wages scandalously. America is made for Americans. Therefore, give Americans the first chance."

The postal cards received by The Times, show that the signers all have foreign names and the handwriting is distinctive of Germany, Sweden and Norway, as are the names. Mr. Smith was asked why the society did not broaden its scope and give Americans alone a chance to get rich by excluding all other nationalities from the shores of the land of the Star Spangled Banner. He replied that he thought white men had a right to come in as long as they showed a desire to become good citizens, but that the members of the organization felt no overwhelming love for men of a brownish hue.

Mr. Smith is authority for the statement that the Mongolian Society is going to boom along its anti-Oriental ideas to a finish. He says that things have come to such a pass that something must be done, and at once. He thinks it is now up to his organization to do it.