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Show Nothing of It All. The Nation, of New York, thinks the arbitration arbitra-tion treaty with Japan "comes like a west wind blowing away the fog. After all the bellicose talk about peace by battleships, with the distinct intimation in-timation by administration senators like Bever-idge Bever-idge that a conflict with Japan was imminent, we have the State deparlment pursuing the rational method of insuring peace by agreeing to settle most disputes that may arise, after the fashion of enlightened nations." Now it seems to us that the foregoing has very little of either sense or truth in it, because while the treaty and especially the spirit of it is good, it does not in the least provide against such an emergency as Japan tried her bluff on a year and a half ago, or which is now the only menace which is offered the United States by the acts of Japan. The treaty excludes from arbitration subjects involving in-volving national independence, vital interests of honor. Now Japan was furious, her honor was assailed because the parents of San Francisco preferred not to have their little girls in the public schools sit on the same seats with Japanese hoodlums hood-lums eighteen and twenty years old. Again about all the danger of trouble with Japan is that she on some pretense, will make war upon China, the object of which, no matter., what she pretends, will be to obtain title by conquest to Korea and Manchuria. Man-churia. Of course Senator Beveridgo's theatrical displays were all foolish enough; the threatened danger of war which certain eastern and English newspapers indulged in, and the abuse of the school board and people of San Francisco for doing do-ing what it was their plain duty to do in regard to their public schools, were all uncalled for, and in the main saturated with pure meanness, but nothing was at stake which this new treaty with Japan could have touched had it been in force at the time, because there was no point in the dis pute except the claim that Japanese honor had offiHHH! been wounded, and a goodly portion of the east- lilflH em press and the president of the United -States WBBBSM took the same view, though at that very time USHHS Japan was excluding the children of foreignern HHH from her schools. The whole business should ji&flfl have been settled by the President in ten min- il utes by his informing the Japanese minister that wH if San Francisco was giving Japanese children Nfl just such school facilities as it was giving Amer- l-H ican children, that was purely a matter for Cali- IHI fornia to settle herself and neither the Federal H Government nor Japan had the slightest cause to -'HH interfere. lH But the President had not created any excite- ,1 ment for a week or two, and that was his oppor- 0'J tunity and the great minds on certain eastern lH .newspapers saw It was a chance to have a new Hl fling at the wild and wooly west, and hence the Hll outcry. 7xH |