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Show A COrffcOriESZ. r-icASUuS; BhEISLY POSSI35.E - WASmNOtOK, Feb. 2. War with Japan via regarded as the remotest of i .possibilities. The differenca between the two countries, owing to theerefusi of Ean' FranclJCO to permit Japanese pupils to enter' the public schools of that dty, never has reached the stags where It Treated a fear of sin armed clash. Beports of possible war that hare been sent out from Washington are not only misleading, bnt are ' wholly unjustified un-justified by any facts in possession of either Government. The relstiona between be-tween the United States and the empire of Jspsn never were more cordial' than they are today. The Japanese diplomatic diplo-matic representatives are well acquainted ac-quainted with the situation, and President Pres-ident Roosevelt has succeeded in securing se-curing the consent of Japan to a basis ba-sis of compromise which will settle the whole difficulty within a year or two, providing the people of San Francisco Fran-cisco do their part. No Danger of War. The treaty which is pending and which is the direct result, of the delicate deli-cate intervention of the President, was not framed by. either eouatry because there was the slightest danger 5f -war. It was brought about because the Japanese Jap-anese realized that it was not to their interest to have their people come to the mainland of America, because they would not be treated fairly here. At the same time 'they, were entirely unwilling un-willing to submit to -anything ia the - nature of international insult and they generously have agreed to the signing of a treaty preventing their people landing la the United States and prohibiting pro-hibiting our working men landing in the Japanese islsnds. All the Japanese have asked has been that, as a purely temporary matter, mat-ter, and in order to save their national pride, Japanese ehildren of school age in Ban Francisco who, until October 15. or thereabouts, were received in the public schools on an equality with American children shall continue to he so received. Should Satisfy 'Frisco. As the Japanese are to be barred out bv the treaty, the children of that race of school age naturally will disappear within a few years, and thus the Pa ciflc coast will be free of the threat of Japanese immigration and of the association asso-ciation of white with Japanese children of the coolie class. On the other hand, the people of the Pacific slope want Japanese excluded, and when that is done they will be entirely satisfied. It rests with the school authorities of fan Francisco to say whether the fair compromise com-promise arranged by President Roosevelt Roose-velt shall be put in force or not. |