Show THE HOLIER THAN THOU EAST That we did not have havea a a war with Japan four months ago is much more due to the common sense and sense of justice of the Japanese Government 1 of the Eastern than to the the great great influential press press' States of our own country They are not through with the business yet It was awful to put Japanese pupils of the primary class in schools by themselves They hey had the same sam books just as good schoolhouses schoolhouses school- school houses just as good teachers as the American children children children chil chil- dren had they had full right of way in the high sc schools and universities as American pupils but that exclusion from the primary schools was something so terrible in it its discrimination that a war would not have been without justification Then think of it Some union union and union non union non laborers met in a San Francisco restaurant a fight followed and the place was wrecked That was too mu much h. h Anything might be expected after that A matter of a few hundred dollars would have soothed the outraged feelings of the proprietor and caused him lim to fi fix up another shanty to have it wrecked but jut the East is still inconsolable solable Even the current Review of Reviews thinks the behavior of the school board of that city San Francisco was mischievous mis mis- mischievous mischievous mis- mis chievous and contemptible Running through the whole business there is a aone atone atone tone one of superiority and of thou than which would be provoking if it were not so stupidly provincial l toadyish and condescendingly insolent It t started in Washington and every evey newspaper in that atmosphere thought it an opportunity if not a a duty to air air itself The wild and woolly West is faulty in many ways but rut the elements that make trouble in the West are recent importations ns from the East they have come mostly in box boa cars and on and they do not represent any permanent stratum of Western society The action of f the San Francisco school board oard was exactly right the fight in the restaurant and wash-house wash was a misfortune and the city authorities authorities authorities au au- should have settled the damages the next morn morning 1 g. g But to talk about a war Var in either connection connection connection tion is either bab baby or hoodlum talk |