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Show OBSTREPEROUS JAPS. ' ' The Japanese have issued a protest against the exclusion of Japanese children from the schools in Ban Francisco and so serious has become the matter that President Roosevelt has sent a Cabinet officer out to California to see about it. We would not worry very much over that. The proper thing would be to notify the Japanese Minister Min-ister that there has been more or less friction in California ever since "befo' thewah" about the . 'mixing of races in the schools and that California, . which is a sovereign State, has made its own rules, which the Government cannot interfere with, which rules separate different colors in the schools, but that, the United States will guarantee to the Japa-' Japa-' nesexthat the children of Japanese parents in San Francisco shall have just as good schoolhouses, . Jusf as good teachers, and the same books that the American children have; that there shall be no discrimination dis-crimination against them in the quality of the edu- cation supplied, but that is as far as . the Government Govern-ment can go. By the way, it seems to us a joke that a foreign for-eign Government should complain of our country . that her people, temporarily domiciled in a foreign country, are not as carefully looked after in the free schools of a country as they should be. They j are not out a cent for schooling. They have books furnished .them free, also teachers free, but that . floes 'not satisfy them; they expect that the children' chil-dren' of their subjects shall not only be put on the tiact-plane with American children, but shall occupy oc-cupy the same seats. ' It looks a little as though the Japanese were afflicted af-flicted a little bit with the disease called'"the big iead" since they defeated the Russians in the great (var and perhaps it will be necessary, by and by, to make it clear to them that, while they own 900 Islands out in mid-Pacific, they do not: own the tarth. ' j |