ANTI-JAPANESE LEAGUE FORMING
Alameda Citizens, Aroused to the Danger, Will Take Steps to Shut Out the Brown Men.

Alameda, March 7.--The great influx of Japanese into Alameda has aroused a number of citizens to a sense of danger and has caused the launching of an anti-Japanese League, which is now being organized. Prominent in this movement are John Robinson, the grain man, of Encinal avenue; George Foster of the well-known contracting firm of Foster & Son, and A.T. Dean of the Park Hotel.

Robinson first agitated the question. He has spent considerable time in Hawaii, and declares that the Japanese there have ruined the country when it comes to a white laborer's standpoint, and that any but a Japanese small merchant cannot live in a large part of the islands.

"I am opposed to the Japanese immigration," Foster said to-day, "just as I am opposed to the coming in of any race that injures our workingmen. The Japanese is worse than the Chinese in this, for while the Chinese for the most part takes up work that a white man will not do, the Japanese enters into active competition and drives the white man out.

"Take here in Alameda. Where there used to be a comfortable German gardener, for instance, with a nice little home, now you find a Japanese who is not doing a thing for the country and is not building up a home. Instead he is living in some shanty with dozens of others. The Japanese, as everybody knows, has run every white shoemaker out of Alameda."

The large increase in the Japanese population of Alameda for some time past has excited considerable comment. It is estimated that now some 850 Japanese make their home here, a number about double that of a year ago. So great has the demand for Japanese quarters become that William B. McCann has thought it profitable to begin the erection of two houses, which, at the rate the present Japanese quarters are peopled, will house nearly 200 adults.