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Show V V T OF, FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE Tho Brooklyn Eagle In nn editorial says1 'It isn't for the men of California to say whether' the Japanese can become citizens or not, but It is "n question for congress. It shys: "Congress has full lower to remove any disability. The nation Is supreme. su-preme. Not in Sacrwuento, hut In Washington, Is the real responsibility for tho possible outcome of tho controversy with Japan." In a strict legal senso that Is true, but Washington Will be very care lul nbout Interfering with the direct will of the west coast. The eastern seaboards are all quarantined quar-antined against contagious diseases, nnd thoy would not do nwny with that quarantine If congress should wnnt It to ho done. Thoy would say to congress: ,"Ve will leave this matter to tho peoplo. Let them vote on It." They would be the more anxious about this if a contagious dlseaso like cholera were raging, rag-ing, say, In Europe. What the Callfornlans nre doing In regard to tho Japanese Is simply establishing establish-ing the quarantine against unwelcome visitors. They u'e determined thnt thoso men shall not push them eff the soil of tho Golden State, and It congress or the president, or tho president f-Jtid congress combined, com-bined, should decide to give to tho Japanese the full rights of citizenship, thero would be a storm raised in California which would make the men of the east investigate tho question more deeply (Aid should they do that, the sensible portion of them will say to their congressmen: "Go slow about letting those Japs become citizens of tho United States." Arid It will not bo done. And the Impression In the west Is that President Wilson nnd Secretary of State Mr. Drynn made a mistake when they didn't tersely terse-ly reply to tho first note of thnt cheeky embabsti-dor embabsti-dor whom Japan keeps In Washington, and say to him: "California Is a sovereign state. It Is as big as all Japan. Its people are absolutely free, nnd, while wo will do what we can to smooth the .differences .dif-ferences between your country and ours, we do not propose to dlctnto to California what she shall or shall not do." Tho longer this Is agitated the more IrrltUlng It becomes. The Japs know very well they could mnke no headway In the dominion; they know they nro excluded from Australia. Hut they would like to have three acres of California land for every ono ot their nblo bodied people who wish to move nwny; because that would be iumple lnnd for them to mnke a living on, and If they could havo It nnd could plant themselves In any county of CnUfomta, 1000 or 2000 or 3000 ot them, they by, their natural thrift which has come down th'ough 1000 5'ea.is of wont would push out the natives, and thoy would, in effect, In n little while own the fctate and thnt cannot be done yet. j |