Churchill standard. (Fallon, Nev) 1903-1908, 1906-12-15

FROM OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
CORRESPONDENT
ROosevelt's Action Discussed By a
Washington Correspondent
Washington, D. c.,

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Dec. 6, 1906.
It seems rather queer in tins day to
hear talk Of states rights. But that is
the thing that is now uppermost in
Washington conversation. There is no
section Of the Presidents message to
! Congress that has caused more talk
than the section relating to Japanese
affairs on the Pacific Coast. The gem
| eral opinion, though not the one gem
orally voiced, is that the message so far
as it deals with Japan is a gigantic bluff.
ltsounds well, sounds particularly well
abroad. In this may be noted the COM
ments tnat have come back by cablefrom
London. The British government has
been having anti-Asiatic trouble
of its own i'll The colonies recently, and
has been obliged to deal with the senti-
ment in Australia and the Transvaal.
Therefore the words about equality and
fraternity were particularly welcome as
being in line with the policy that Great
britain has already adopted.
So far as Japan is concerned, the
the statement in the message can
not be accepted in other than good
faith, and it shows that the admin
istraton is willing to do all it can to set
tie the question to the satisfaction of
Japan. But if it be shown that the
control Of school affairs on the Pacific
Coast is beyond the reach OF the Federal
government, even through treaty rights,
then both Japan and the Federal gov
ernment will have to bow to the iney-
table and do the best they can under
the circumstances. The talk of using
military force against the states of the
coast is well enough in published cor
respondence, but the scheme OF sending
federal troops against state has been
tried once in this country, and it is not
likely that it will ever be tried again
oyer so small a matter as the schooling
Of Asiatics.
The probable course is that test
case will be made in the courts, and
carried as speedily as possible to the
Supreme Court. If that tribunal de-
cides that the japanese must be ad-
mitted to the public schools of the
coast, the people of California Wash
ington and Oregon will probably admit
them and send their own children else
where. But ii the court decides the
opposite, the government of Japan will
be notified of the decision and the mat
ter will be allowed to rest. As several
Of the senators and representatives have
pointed out, any talk of war is worse
than useless. 1t is silly.
No sooner has Congress gotten to-
gether for the new session than there
is talk of an extra session in the air.
1t is naturally over the question of
tariff revision. There is now talk that
a special message will be sent TO con-
gress, and that there will be a special
session called on March 9th next.
Massachusetts is in the lead about this,
She wants tariff revision more than any
other OF the manufacturing states and
practically the whole of the state dele
CATION is solid for the idea. The Dem
+ocrats are OF course in favor of tariff re-
vision and they hold that there is more
prospect of getting it now than should
the party wait till Roosevelt is succeeded
by Taft, Fairbanks, Shaw, or some OF
the other men who are ayowed stand
patters. There is question whether
in case the subject can be brought up
for discussion, it would be wise to open
the whole question. There is strong
element in favor Of settling on some OF
the schedules that are now obviously
too high, and calling an extra session
specificxSy for the purpose of adjusting
them. Others hold that it would be
wiser go open up the whole subject and
have a thoroughgoing revision. One
thing is certain, and that is that most
OF the members who favor the revision
scheme at all, think it wiser to do the
revising while the country is on the
high tide OF prosperity rather than to
wait and adjust the tariff during bad
times and just when the country could
least afford it.