Show I WHAT FOR If cx President Roosevelt was dead lead we would sometimes think that hi his ghost was steering President President dent Tafts Taft's mind at times He must have known that the tred treaty tretty that he lie has patched up with the Japanese would incense the whole west What was his motive in pressing it upon the senate In making a treat treaty and claiming a national national- nal- nal right why stop and leave the carrying out of that right to the honor of any pow power r much less Japan 7 Has las Japan shown hers herself lf sensitive about her honor on an any special occasion 1 What about her honor in K Korea rea or 01 Manchuria or 01 any other spot where it has seemed to be to her materi material material mate mate- ri rial ll interest to ignore every semblance of honor Does she hesitate to steal any invention thatis that carried carried car car- ried ned to her shores and duplicate the article as quickly as her artisans can make it and offer it at half price under the inventors inventor's nose and anI with the inventors inventor's name on the article 1 Anti And when a protest protest protest pro pro- test has been filed what have the J Japanese courts I done save to shrug their shoulders and profess in inability inability inability in- in ability to interfere with the industries of their people 1 Is it not true that every very Japanese business busi busi- ness hess house is obliged to employ Chinese bookkeepers ers and cashiers to a avoid void being stolen blind by its own employees 7 1 Why Thy should President Taft Tan se sele select se- se le lect t this particular race to submit an important feature of a treat treaty r to its honor When the west coast points out to the government that it is defenseless defenseless de de- against invasion when the truth of that fact is apparent to the tho dullest eyes when it itis is just as evident that the the only only power which our nation na- na lion tion has any occasion to fear fea is only fifteen days das sail off across the Pacific from that coast and that she he has threatened half-threatened war l' l upon l us because the tho mothers of San Francisco object to having eighteen eight eight- een ecu and t year twenty old ear Jaran Japanese se hoodlums sit side by side with their li little girls' girls in th the public schools what can President Taft find in such a arace arace arace race to justify him in going out of oi his way to be bestow bestow he- he stow an especial honor upon her and by the act incense some millions of his own countrymen who understand the Japanese character cry much better better better bet bet- ter than he seems capable of over learning it and by the act increase the heart burnings between the tile I west coast and the Japanese 1 President Taft has a big brain and is a great scholar and lawyer lawer but sometimes we fear that he has no more judgment than had Horace Greeley |