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Show the Japanese are a different race ; they are not like Italians, not like Irish, not like Germans; not like English or Scotch, because in three generations, gen-erations, as these different branches of the Caucasian Cau-casian family have merged in our country they have become one people. The Japanese are a distinct dis-tinct race; they are Asiatic through and through; they are a heathen race, and they have essentially dishonest traits. They cannot trust their people to be bookkeepers and clerks in their own stores. It is impossible for an American to go to Japan and engage in any business busi-ness except the exporting business, and make a living, and this is the time when President Wilson Wil-son or Secretary Bryan, or both combined, should make this difference plain to the Japanese. Jap-anese. They affect to ignore California and treat with the general government of this country. California is bigger than Japan, its people are a generous people, ;ufd when after years of trying, they declair liy statute t:iai they do net want the Japanese to own thair lands or to assimilate svith their people in a social or sexual sense, they state only what the people of every other state would insist upon if they knew the Japanese as well as the California: know them. Japan will make no war unless she determines deter-mines to make it from the first. If she pleases to do something which will jeopardize hr very national existence, that is for her to d?cide. Our own belief is that she is bluffing, and has no intention wnatever to makf war vrhh the United Stat-s, and that a little firmness and free statement of what the American people demand, which in truth is no more than Japan demands for herself, will settle the controversy, at least until Japan can recuperate her treasury and raise one more generation of men. WHAT JAPAN REALLY WANTS. What Japan really wants has finally come out. We said a month ago that would be the ultimate ul-timate demand, but did not think Japan was ready to make it, but if Japan meditates any trouble with the United States, she intends to brine it on before the Panama canal is finished. What she wants is stated by their leading paper, the Osaka Mainishi, when it says: "All Japan wants for the Japanese is equal treatment with white men. Japan's progress has reached a point where she will no longer consent to discrimination discrimina-tion against her subjects." If a gentleman owns a house he is under obligation ob-ligation to treat his neighbors alike, in business and in all other things, but he is bound socially to receive no one in his house except those he pleases to aak, and when we consider that this nation is like a family, this nation has the same right It will not discriminate against Japan in trade or commerce ; - it will supply the Japanese in America with schools as good as it supplies its own people; in fact, our universities and high schools are open to the Japanese now, but |