The independent., 1906-12-06
HAYES PREDICTS WAR
California Congressman Predicts That
Japan viii Fight to Control
Pacific Ocean


congress from the Pacific coast, Pres
ident Roosevelt is confident of a peace
full and satisfactory arrangement of
the Japanese school question. He
talked earnestly today with Represent
ative Hayes of California, as a result
of which the congressman announced
he would not press this session his
bill for the exclusion of the Japanese.
In the meantime, the president will
continue the discussion of the school
and immigration questions with Japan,
and will endeavor to effect a settle
ment with as little delay as possible
President Roosevelt wants the dis
pute adjusted in order that the feeling
which has developed may be allayed,
and thus leave no permanent scar on
the relations of the two countries.
Representative Boutel of Chicago
perhaps expressed the presidents
views better than any caller at the
White House when he said:
eve have advanced too far along
the pathway of civilization to have
war with any foreign country over so
small question as that of admission
to schools"
Representative Hayes agreed with
his colleague in part, but asserted tha
war was inevitable
Il don't think We will have war with
Japan over the school question at
this time" he said But we will
have war with that country within
the next twenty years.
''The Japanese have got it into their
heads that they will control the Pa
cific ocean, and we have got it into
our heads that we will control it. A
clash eventually will come"
Representative Hayes does not be-
lieve Japan is ready for struggle
with the United States over the ques-
ton of it's people mixing in the public
schools with Americans.
"But can say" he continued, with
out the least desire to inflame the
controversy, that the people of the
Pacific coast, snecially of California,
are united on this question. It is not
a party question at all. Republicans,
democrats, labor unionists, all have
not learned to hold the Japanese in
as high esteem as might be possible.
The Chinaman stands better in the
popular mind than the JAP
'The trouble is really deeper than
| the school question. The Japanese
are pouring into the Pacific coast in
large numbers. They are arriving at
| the rate of 1000 more a month than
thev depart.
"They are coming into conflict with
| both skilled and unskileld labor. They
outdo the Chinese in working for small
| wages and living off nothing.
'They do not trade with American
business men, but bring over their
| own merchants and purchase all their
goods from them. Besides this they
are unreliable in business matters and
tricky, all of which give Americans
bad opinion of them"
Representative Hull of Iowa, chair
man of the house committee On mill
tary affairs, sees little in the school
controversy to bring about war.
II can't see," he said, where the
| federal government comes in on this
| question. 1t has no right to interfere
with the local affairs of California
or San Francisco. I do not believe
| it will do SO, either. / do not think
any foreign country would have any
business debating to Des Moines what
| it's school authorities should do in the
matter of entrance to the public
schools"
REPRESENTATIVE T Warren Keifor Of