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Show have, but there is a State law in California that 'forbids 'for-bids Mongolians-and -Indians to attend the same schools as white children, and the Federal Government Govern-ment has no power on earth to change that statute. Since .the : war with -Russia people of the East have taken on the idea that the Japanese are the soul of honor and sensitive to a fault. The truth is, the Japanese have no honor, and just now they have the biggest kind of big head. "More than that, they do not propose to be fair in trade. . Their intention is not only. to do the trading of'their own country but that ' of China, and" their purpose, also, is to buy nothing that they can possibly produce u home, and when they go to market to buy, they are going to buy where they can get what they want cheapest. I . Then they are treacherous. They disguise their high officers as coolies, that they may spy" out-the defenses of other countries. In truth, there is but one redeeming trait in the-Japanese character, and that is, that they have the Asiatic disregard" of death, which makes them as soldiers what, the old Romans were, and mentally they are as subtle as serpents.. They are so essentially dishonest that a Japanese merchant in Yokohama dare not trust his country- men with the finances of the institution, but rather imports his cashiers-from China. ; Our country should make every concession that is just to the Japanese, but no. more, because the more that is granted them' the more they will demand, de-mand, until, when they get rested and recuperated from their great war, they will want another. At the. same time, as a matter of wisdom and justice, there is no possible sense in excluding Chinese Chi-nese and; permitting the. Japanese to send over hordes, for the Chinese are better immigrants in every way than the Japanese. . r JAPS AND THEIR TREATMENT. "Efow easy for a paper published in New York by gentlemen who can tell all a"bout the different coun- ties in England and the art galleries of the continent, but who know nothing at all about their own country this side of the Mississippi, to preach- condescending sermons to the West. Here is a paragraph from the Outlook: If California is short-sighted enough to discriminate against the Japanese and to sacrifice the capital of confidence confi-dence which this country has laid up in its fair-minded and disinterested intercourse with Japan, and to turn friendly feeling into hatred, it will show the blindness that falls upon those who are bent on self -destruction, and we do not believe.it will secure the indorsement of the Nation in so great an act of folly. , ' ' The people of California, when it comes to intelligence, in-telligence, measure up very well with the men of JTew York. They hate never asked anything of this Nation yet that was not proper for them to ask. They are no more selfish than the men ofvthe East, and they understand the Mongolians very much better than the men of the East do. The proper thing is to do the right and square thing by "Japan, not because of any question of trade, or any question of friend-. friend-. ship, but because that it is' the right thing to do with ell people.. ' . The fuss that Japan has made over the exclusion exclu-sion of Japanese pupils from the public schools of San Francisco isnot a matter of national importance at all. We have a treaty with Japan that extends to her-subjects in this country all the privileges that ere. extended to the most favored nations, but that does not involve any obligation on the part of California Cali-fornia to educate gratis Japanese, children. At the same time California does that very thing. : It sends v them to just , as good schools, with just the 6ame books and just as good teachers as white children . " a |