The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-02-16
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United States cogniZable in the
Federal courts. This has not,
however, been done, and the Fed
eral officers and courts nave no
power in such cases to intervene
either for the protection of a for
eign citizen or for the punishment
of his slayers. 1t seems to me TO
follow, in this state of the law,
that the, officers of the State
charged with police and judicial
powers in such cases must, in the
consideration of International
questions growing out of such in
cidents, be regarded in such sense
as Federal agents as TO make this
government answerable for their
acts in cases where it would be
answerable if the United States
had used it's constitutional power
to define and punish crimes.
against treaty rights.
'And that is all. An indemnity was
paid, though no obligation Of the Fed
eral government was acknowledged.
THE contrast between this course
and hat taken by President Roosevelt
in this Japanese business is sufficiently
startling. Instead Of telling the Japa-
nese government thai the Federal
government has no shadow of right to
Interfere with the deliberations Of a
State Legislature, every possible pres
sure has been brought to bear on that
Legislature to control it in its action.
The wires have been kept hot with
messages-most of which have been
Immediately given to the publc-to
the governor of California urging him
to prevent the legislation. The Sen
ators have been urged to use their in
%fluence, though they have none that
they can 1egitimately use. The Presl-
dent has one Senator tor
his supposed attitude on the question:
It seems almost to be a case Of an
alliance between the President of the
United States and japan against a
State Of h American Union. We
have been threatened with the most
disastrous OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
possibility of war-if California passed
a certain bill. There has been no
thought as to whether Japan had any
right to ask our government to in
~terfere in a case which IS, at least at
the outset. OF merely domestic con-
Germ.
w can imagine that ever the Jap
anese and their government are
amused at this feverish anxiety TO
meet their wishes. Japan is as much
bound to know the nature OF our con-
as was Italy. There ere
some things that We can and some
that we can not DO. We believe that
if there sha prove to be G question
treaty rights involved the ease could
got before the Fedora courts. Ger
tainly it could be got before the courts
California. All the fuss and bluster
been most undignitied, and We
harmful. !Ee do not sympa-
thize with the crusade against the Jap
anese. and we are sure that the gov
eminent ought to perform ITS treaty
obligations. But We are quite as sure
the President Of the United states
has no business to appear as a parry
on one side or the other OF any blll
may be pending in the legislature
Of any State in the American Union.
The methods used by President Harm
and Mr.. Blaine were st4tesmanlke
American. Those that are BENG
used by Theodore Roosevelt are
something very different
Elsewhere in today's paper appears
4 strong article OF the destruction or
reserved right Of the sovereign
from the pen Of Judge Faunt~
eroy Of ST. Louis, one of the first 1u-
licial minds Of Missouri. The whole
country naturally wishes to avert Il
with Japan, but are we not
permanent peaceful rela-
ions and sacrificing the very mud
sills principles upon which our Re
was established?