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Show T2IEY HAVE THE RIGHT NOW. The Department of Justice," at the instance of President Roosevelt, has undertaken proceedings in Pennsylvania to annul the first papers of naturalization naturaliza-tion issued to a Japanese named Sintaro Ota. It is understood to be a friendly suit to test the question whether a Japanese can be naturalized in the United States or not. Referring to it, a correspondent of an Eastern paper intimates that the President is not sincere in urging the case, because, in his message to Congress three months ago, he used these words : I auk fair treatment for the. Japanese as I would ask fair treatment for Germans or Englishmen, Frenchmen, Rus- siana or ItallAna. T nsk it An in hnmnnitv ond eivili7.11. tion. I ask it as due to ourselves, because we must act uprightly up-rightly to all men. I recommend to the Congress that an act be passed specifically providing for the naturalization of Japanese who come here intending to become. American citizens. citi-zens. . - i We presume the intention of the President is to have demonstrated by the courts that Japanese have the right to be naturalized in this country the same as other foreigners. All of which seems to us an unnecessary un-necessary proceeding, because the laws which cover naturalization in this country are plain and apply to all foreigners in this country. We believe a law has been made sifrce to bar Chinese, but not to bar Japanese, Jap-anese, and that under the laws, as they stand, a Japanese Jap-anese can be naturalized just as readily as an Englishman En-glishman or a Frenchman. i '. |