Bisbee daily review., 1906-12-23
CALIFORNIA Is OPPOSED ID
 ROOSEVELT
Republican Paper Says People Are Firing of Presidents Czar-Like Conduct With Reference to Local Japs,

The San Francesca Chronicle. nora.
 inaily a republican organ, severely takes President Roosevelt to task on his attitude towards the Japanese. The Chronicle says:
 The rumor will not down that the president is negotiating a new treaty with Japan which sh.-.i explicitly pro vide for the exclusion Of Japanese coolies. If so. events have put him in very diacIent frame Of lnInd rom ! that which possessed him about year ago. when, if undeaied reports of conversation. were correct. he had the assurance to fairly abuse a Califor- mia congressman for proposing, in the line Of his duty as representative, to try to stop Asiatic cooiie inuigra- tion. If correctly reported at that time, the president was guilty of . very grave offense in seeking to brow beat member of coordinate branch Of the government IL is very likely thet he is backing down. It is not the first time. In the effective discharge of the duties of his position President Roosevelt is entitled to and will re ceiye the respect and support of the people, but the public is getting tired of his persistent and czar-like attempt 10 enforce his individual will as the law of the land. There are multitude of people who say this in private. It Is quite time that there should be pub lie expression of it.
 "In framing an exclusion law it is not only proper, but imperative, that in ways well known to diplomacy the Japanese government should be made to understand that no question of rela- tive inferiority or superiority is i'll yoived. Regardless of Japan's or our own rights in the matter, there is decent and friendly way of doing things. There is not the slightest oo- jection, if 1t would please the Japan ese government, to unofsicially inti mating that Japanese civilization is superior to our own, and Japanese people are better. The essential thing is that the peoples and civilizations arc so antagcnistic that they cannot exist peacefully side by side. We are perfectly willing to concede Japan to the Japanese. We insist that they shall concede the United states to us. AE,. whatever we do in the matter we shall do with full appreciation of sll tlle high qualities of the Japanese people. and admiration for the vigor ana skill with which they have taken ! T cir Iighdul place in tte community # GallVis
 But we object 10 any proceeding [ which shall imply that permission is { equiTed from Japan to enact an ex- ! lcsicn law. In pursuance of their Un- | doubted authority. the president and I senate twelve years ago came to an ! agreement with Japan on this subject It was expressed :3 tae5e words: 1t is, however. understood that
 the stipulations contained in this and the rreceding article do not |. in any way affect the laws, ordi-
 Aa4I.ss anu reguiaLions wIth re-
 gard to trade. the immigration of
 laborers, police and public secur- ity which are in force. or which
 may hereafter be enacted in eith- ! CT of the two countries
 Under that proviso Japan has the right to exclude our laborers and we have the right to exclude Japanese laboreTs. No new treaty could make the matter any clearer CT the respcc- [ tive rights any better defined. Il would. of course, be possible to in i sert the additional proyiso that tse ! phrase in regard to the immigration of laborers' does not mean merely thai there may be head tax and special arrangements for the landing and su- i pervision of immigrant laboring men such as, now exist in the Atlantic trade. and at Ellls island. But that is | net necessary. The law as it stands is clear, and, in view of the fact thai at the date other Asiatic laborers were excluded from the United State: 1 inc obvious meaning of the language must have been well understood by 1 both parties 10 the convention It Is a matter of indifference in what way the Japanese government is advised of our intention, so only that we dc not begin by concediag that we ara not sf liberty 10 act without aRy new treaty"