The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-03-15
TRUCKING
TO THE JHPS
ROOS6V6It'S fiction Is
Scored
NO NEED FOR NEW TREATY
National Dignity fids Reached Limit
of Concessions
NO NEED FOR NEW TREATY

Harper's Weekly Of March ?, calls at
tention to the weak and cringing at
titude Of our government in dealing
with Japan, and in an able review Of
the situation in which It asserts that
President Roosevelt ~has gone to the
limit Of propriety and national self
respect in his efforts to a1Iay the sus-
capabilities OF the Toxic government"
concludes as follows with the severe
statement that he intends to go farther:
We are informed, however, that. not
content with prevailing on the State Of
California and the San Francisco school
board 10 renounce in favor Of Japan
their asserted right Of regulating their
public schools, President Roosevelt in
tends TO go still farther IN the way OF
propitiating Japan BY refraining from
standing exclusively on the right to re-
strict immigration conceded by the sec
ond article Of the treaty Of 1894. On the
contrary, he is said to have announced
that as soon as the irritation caused in
Toxic by the segregation Of japanese
pupils in San Francisco public schools
shall have died away he will essay to
negotiate with Japan a new treaty..
whereby each OF the signatories shall
agree to exclude from its territories i'm
migrant hborers who are citizens or sub
iects OF the other part to the compact
Why, a self-respecting American IS nat
urally iu1pelled to ask, should any addi-
tional treaty on the subject be needed?
Already, under the second article OF the
treaty Of 1894, the United States and
Japan. being left in absolute control Of
legislation respecting immigration. are
each at liberty to pass such laws for the
exclusion OF immigrant IabOrers as they
may see fit What can Japan want, or
have the face TO ask for, beyond the ex-
ecution Of that treaty in the letter and
in the spirit? We are aware that strict
justice IS one thing. while comfy IS an
other, but we submit that there are
limits beyond which comfy may not be
stretched without mourning the risk Of
bearing in the eyes Of onlookers less
admirable name OF course, we desire
the Toxic government, and every other
government, to know that we mean TO
treat them not only Justly, but generous
". They should all be made to under
stand no less distinctly, however, that
we fear none Of them. and that there IS
a boundary fixed BY national dignity
beyond which concessions will not 20.
The time, in word. seems to have come
for Americans to ask themselves, What
will the japanese think of US when they
contrast our gingerly treatment OF them
with our high-handed treatment Of the
Chinese? The Chinese had treaty
which not only did not exclude from
the operation thereof legislation concern
ing immigration, but expressly granted
all classes of the people Of each sig
natory permission to migrate 70 and set
tie in the territory OF the other. New
ertheless, in defiance Of that treaty, we
have excluded Chinese laborers by act Of
congress, Was the course that we pur-
sued toward China dictated BY the
knowledge that we were dealing with a
feeble power: And IS the very different
course that Mr.. Roosevelt is now pursu-
ing the outcome of d conviction that
IN dealing with strong and sensitive
nation discretion is the better part OF
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