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Show I JAPANESE STIRRED UP. During this campaign the Japanese question will he made r political football, bul when the election is over, we maj expect th-1 whole subject to he considered withoul th pyrotechnics whic h new illumine the Bk all . 1 1 n cr th" Pacific coasl How deeply the agitation in ('Jilifornin is affecting the Japanesi is hrouphi out in an interview in Tokio in which s number "t stair-, men ar' quoted Viscounl Takaaki Kota, forhiei foreign minister sayg : "That America, which constantly is advocating the cause oi righteousness and humanity, should dart without niinsr proper leasons. to deprive Japanese of the fruits of nian years of pains taking labor, is an act we can never overlook, That America, of all countries, should resorl to an ad so cruel and inhuman, is really inexplicable in-explicable ' If California passes (lie proposed bill bj the referendum ris-count ris-count Kaneko says, "California will write an indelible impression upon the minds of ever man. woman and hild in Japan. "But I l not predict war will result if this action is taken All the pom) tln visit of Perry .0 Japan acoomplished, and all iho trierid-ship trierid-ship that has grown up between the two nations in the last sixty-four sixty-four years, however, will be wiped m in a single Jay.'' Viscounl Kancko declares that if Japanese were approached in a reasonable way, a positive and peaceful arrangement could i reached. Bver clemcnl of injustice should ! eliminated from the California Cali-fornia referendum, which, if made law. will exclude Japanese from laud ownership even to the extenl of forbidding Japanese from holdinp lands b leasi Whether those Japanese who are leasing lands will he deprived of their leases without being compensated is not made plain, but any confiscation f property should bo avoided. |