A topic of interest in 1907 was the limiting of Oriental immigration. Smith wrote Bryce in September that Canada was dependent on the Chinese for domestic service. The October Cosmopolitan carried Smith's article, "The World Menace of Japan," and a correspondent in Oregon responded with a long letter praising Japanese culture. In January a writer claimed that Rooswelt had said the American people would not allow the government to recognize Japan's legal rights, and that unless the Japanese consented to being humiliated, war was inevitable. In January a friend wrote of Oxford's financial problems. Fortnum had left them treasures, but the university had to build a museum to house them; Rhodes gave a fortune for scholarships, but made no provision for an increase in faculty or facilities. American educator Jacob Gould Schurman complained that all over the country men were graduating in professional and technical courses "with an incredible ignorance of literature, history, philosophy, and economic and political science. Many ...cannot even use their own language correctly." In March a traveling Englishwoman wrote, "Montreal has become as French as Quebec was 19 years ago." She complained of new regulations that had made entry into the United States from Canada or Mexico as troublesome for a tourist as for an immigrant. W . D. Gregory wrote in April about increased postal rates for American and English newspapers mailed to Canada. Smith supported a local Independent Labour candidate, declaring his intention to promote "the presence in the legislature of a direct representative of the toiling class".