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Show TIGHTENING UP GEN- TLEMENlS AGREE-MENTS AGREE-MENTS ",t MglSl" 8enator Hlrara Johnson is no doubt Quito ready to agroo to tho proposal pro-posal made somo weoks ago by Senator Sena-tor Penroso that tho management of foreign relations should bo taken oyer by tho sonatc. If It needed anything any-thing to convince tho Catifornlan' to that belief, he has boon furnished ample grounds for disapproval of tbo atate department policy In tho diplomatic diplo-matic collaborations of our own stato department with the. Japanese. California Insists that It Is quite capable cap-able of making Its own land laws In such a way as to protect Its cltl-2ons cltl-2ons from being overridden by tho yollow race. Tho Callfornlans find TaryHttlo dlfferonco o opinion among am-ong themselves regarding this solemn sol-emn question. It has bcon charged that In past years, particularly In tho early days ,of ,tho Qqpsp.re and Taft administrations, that the Callfornlans Call-fornlans ctxhlbttod something of a Jingo spirit concerning the-Inroads of tho Japs. The western stato has therefore very calmly and deliberately deliberate-ly fortified Itself against any criticism criti-cism 'of this kind in tha passage of wha It regards as a thoroughly American Am-erican law to meet the conditions I with which it has to deal, Senator Johnson in condemning tho "tightening "tighten-ing up of gentlemen's agreements" with Japan eaya that rcoort 1b r jnot to American courts but to American Ameri-can diplomats. Ho Is sustained generally gen-erally in Washington In the charge that he makes to tbo effect that-tho state poparlmont Is ruthleaaly overriding over-riding the acts of the peoplo of the stato of California. And the peppery pep-pery Callfornlnn docs not proposo to stand for It 'There (a no disguising the fact. ? that our relatione with Japan tiave been taut for some time. One Is xa mlndod of the old boaat madeby " ( Mexicans thnt they could whip 'the ' United States ir they could oalyvget through Texas. Tho Japanese ntor-tain ntor-tain ah equal confidence, If they ' could get through California. ,Ana Callfornlans ore not at all afraid te havo tho Japs try It They realise that thoy face a crisis In maintaining tholr racial supremacy, and they af perfectly willing to assume all the, responsibilities of the situation. The federal government on the other (4m1 band. Is-continually trying to Biol- - -- llfy tbo Japs, who ore always maklig unreasonable demands upon tbo United Un-ited slates respecting the Isatus of the Japanese pooplo In. this country, |