Show I i f State Stale Rights Abandoned I HE President seem determined to justify th the thc I THE apprehensions of William l Randolph Hearst The Th I tendencies which Mr Ir Hearst thinks I he be has lias already discerned in the tho President ho he wi will willI J I regard as os accentuated by hy Mr Wilsons Wilson's attitude towards towards towards to to- wards tho Japanese i issue suo ue in California Despairing ug f of controlling tho Legislature and Governor Go of that tha commonwealth by br long range bombardments th the Pre President ident has lun consigned the whole states state's ri rights theory theory the the- ory to the ragbag and is dispatching the Secretary of State to the tho rebellions rebellious capital to plead with th the heads of tho the state government go Thus is tho the only feature of the modern Democracy that even e r remotely resembles the political principles of Thomas J Jeffor Jeffor- cHerI son on repudiated d by a Democratic President himself himsel a Southerner I President Wilsons Wilson's keen desiro to avoid R complications complications with ith Japan does docs him infinite credit but he lie appears to be straining his prerogatives to the utter utter- I most Either California is contravening contra treaty obligation gation in which case its acts nets would be bc null and voi void I in any event or tho the thoV V White ite House is interfering ii in inc c exclusive state stat matters with a n meddlesome intrusiveness intrusive intrusive- ness DeS that far exceeds exceed even the performances of that tha most rabid new nationalist Mr Theodore Roosevelt I himself Private negotiations with tho the leaders lenders of the Johnson machine some sorno weeks ago might have hove avoided tho the agitation that has lias attained its present t proportions only because of the spectacular methods f of the Wn Washington hington administration I It is difficult to estimate the probable effect oJ or I Secretary Bryans Bryan's visit sit to California and it is doubtful doubtful doubt doubt- ful whether it will accomplish anything Tho The movement move move- I ment mont to enact legislation would have been beell I abandoned some somo days ago in view of tho storm of oft t criticism if it were not well organized and resolute Tile THe presence presence- o of a n. great number of ot Japanese in that I commonwealth has created au an economic question whose I only solution seems scorns to bo be inhibition of land lanel tenure I The inability of the average American to compete with the tho J Japanese ponese successfully because of tho vast Tast difference in tho the standard of living ng is clearly demonstrated demonstrated demonstrated dem dem- j. j and statutory protection from this branch of tho the Oriental Orion tal peril has baa been settled upon as the only method of correction Having JIa reached this tItis conI conclusion con con- I it it- hardly seems probable that the J Johnson Johnson- J Heney combination whoso whose chief characteristic is uni unreasoning un un- un- un i reasoning obstinacy will surrender even en to the tho wily I Mr Br Bryan an California's Californi s 's right t to establish restrictions in ill land landownership ownership can scarcely be questioned nor can one challenge the desire of the people to bar the Asiatic and Malaysian Malays inn peoples who wio cannot be ho asI assimilated as as- I and become a a. part of our national life I Public opinion largely would sustain the California t I attitude in that respect t. t were it not greatly prejudiced I J by the offensive disrespect for or law and for orderly I pr procedure ed ro that has been constantly exhibited by tho the i p political al machine in control of that great state T The e attitude of Governor Johm Johnson on and hi his supporters has hns I been such that their every administration or legislative legis legis- action is viewed with suspicion and regarded as likely unable to withstand the test o of common c sense a Governor Johnson has expressed surprise that aoI so ao I much ranch excitement should arise in in n view new of the tho fact that California is doing only what other states have already done One Ono might agree that his astonishment astonish astonish- ment is ie warranted were it not that the country expects ex t from that commonwealth nothing nothing- but bizarre I freakish legislation conceived in defiance of the conI con con- In this national attitude Mr fr Johnson I can find the reason for br the agitation that inspires his se |