The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1907-08-29

nese laborers. IL cannot be doubted
that the president expected to fulfill
his promise, but he was evidently
placing too much reliance In the
word OF the INSCRIPTIONS Japs.
Now comes press dispatches with
the statement the japanese author
tiles assert they cannot enter into
treaty keeping japanese laborers out
of the United States owing to the
state OF mind OF the subjects OF the
Mikado, and all negotiations are now
at an end.
The information Is further given
out that President Roosevelt Is keen
iy disappointed and feels the japanese
government has acted In bad faith.
or course the Japs have acted 10
bad faith. They are no more tn be
trusted than so many Apache In
dians--a fact that the quicker 1t Is
eomprehended by President Roose-
welt the moro safe will be the honor
of the United States and the proper
ty and lives OF our citizens.
The dispatches referred to make
the astounding and humiliatiIg
statement that President Roosevelt
offered In exchange for n treaty
clause excluding Japanese laborers to
secure the enactment OF law grant
Ing naturalization To such japanese
as are now In the United States,
This statement would he absolutely
unbelievable II 1t were not for the
fact that the president most forclbly
made such recommendation In his
annual message.
A man who would advocate the
naturalization NJ the Japanese sec.
tion hands and sugar beet raisers In
his country utterly, fails to grasp the
signi ticance OF American citizenship
and the genius of our institutions
The proposition was so rcpulsive that
II met with no response from con.
sress, this section OF the presidents
message being silently ignored.
This Recommendation by President
Roosevelt must ever detract from his
standing not only as a statesman but
rs a patriot.
| To grant naturalization to the
japanese would be taking the viper
tu ones bosom.
The breakers are Just ahead In our
intercourse with Japan. She Is al.
ready displaying bad faith and coudi.
iions are rapidly approaching the
same crisis as when her guns fired
without warning upon the forts and
fleets OF the Russians--a method OF
declaring war on par with the
Apaches with tomahawk and torch
sweeping down Gu frontier settle.
meut.
There Is evidence that President
Roosevelt has partly srasped the
threatening danger Just ahead In the
fact that IL is stated the principal
~arships OF the navy have been or.
dered To tue racinc Coast. There
has been lack OF full official connrma.
tion of this report, but II Is generally
conceded the tieet has been ordered
Ia start In The early fall This Is a
highly sensible proceeding. There Is
no other cloud ia the horizon 1han
that produced by the bullying atti.
tudo OF the treacheroas and unscrup.
ulous japanese.
while on this subject IL Is well to
note that some Chicago preacher has
heralded broadcast the statement
that Japan can whip the United
States and he then casts aspersions
upon our army. In times OF peace
the army Is not much TO brag of-nor
sho1ld 1t be any particular factor Ia
a free republic; but when the Japs
or any ON else Ores on "old Glory, +"
from the shops, the farms. the fac
tories, the mines and the banks, from