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Show CALIFORNIA RIGHT, SAYS BUTLER . Head of Columbia University, Univer-sity, After Visit to Coast, Disagrees With Roosevelt . on Japanese Question. " ( NEW .YORK, April 5,-vPrcsident Nicholas Murray Butler has returned to Columbia university from his honeymoon honey-moon trip to the Pacific coast. Dr. Bntler says that he disagrees with the attitude of President Roosevelt regarding regard-ing the Japanese question. He believes that the people of Ban Francisco are fully justified in excluding the Japanese Japa-nese from their schools. Speaking of the Japanese question, he said; "The California sentiment on the Japanese question has not been made entirely clear. The whole school question, ques-tion, about which the recent discussion arose, turned in reality upon the admission admis-sion oi exclusion of adult Japanese, side by side with little children in the public schools, learning the English language. As to the unwisdom of this there can hardly be two opinions. "The feeling against Japanese, which has been voiced largely by the Japanese and Korean Exclusion league, did not have a particularly creditable origin, but has been strengthened among certain' classes who fear the Japanese as competitors. The more thoughtful Californians, Tiowever, believe be-lieve that the so-called problem of Oriental immigration can be more satisfactorily sat-isfactorily settled on national rather than on local lines." |