Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-05-06
.JAPs DON'T LIKE US
BITTER FEELING TOWARD AMER.
iCANS LONG KNOWN BY ARMY
AND NAVY MEN
WAR IS CERTAIN SOME DAY
CALIFORNIA; Attitude Toward CrientaIs
Sure to GAUGE Clash, Sooner or
Later-HoId Washington Respon-
sIble for Act of Any State.
Rx GEoRGE CLINTON.

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington.-The president and
Secretary OF State Bryan have learn
ed If they never knew before. that the
Japanese people do not like the Amer
leans Members of congress do not
regard it as at all likely that Cali
fornia's attitude towards the owner
ship of land in that state by the Jap
anese viii bring on war between
Japan and the United States, but from
what members of both houses say it
IS known they do believe that if Cali
iornia goes to the extent which she
promises to go in forbidding owner
snip of her land by the Japanese
allen, we will have commercial war
with the Japanese that possibly may
be disastrous.
II is known definitely that army and
navy officers believe that ultimately
this country will meet Japan on the
seas and on land Judging from the
tone of what men of the two services
say, their belief that one day we are
to have serious trouble does not arise
from the instincts of their profess
slon,' but from knowledge which they
| nave obtained from actual contact
with Japanese naval and military Of
ncers in the east, and from a better
understanding of the feeling of the
japanese people as a whole than it is
given to the American layman to
| have.
Seemingly there is little chance for
long time that matters will come
to an issue between this country and
the oriental power. In all seriousness,
with jingoism entirely apart and with
every allowance made for the prompt
lngs of the military spirit of Ameri-
can soldiers and sailors, it is felt by
officers here that unless something
can be done to stop the constantly re-
curing causes for friction, one day
matters will come to an issue which
ought to be avoided
Banes Washington.
If the Japanese people do not under
| stand the limitations of federal pow
er in this country, it is not because
their government has not explained it
to them. When California began to
| start trouble for the United States
five years ago, by trying TO make race
| distinctions in it's public schools, the
| Japanese government told its people
! just why the United States as a whole
was not to blame. When this trouble
was allayed it was said that the ranks
of the Japanese understood all that
their government had told them, and
were angry only at California.
Now the administration is being told
that the Japanese people do not I'M
derstand the states right theory of
government, and that they hold Wash
| ington responsible for everything that
California or any other state does.
Ambassador Chinda may not have
| told President Wilson that the people
of Japan outside of the government
| circles are in an ugly mood toward
the United States, but he did not have
to give the information, for the ad-
| sources
Japan whipped Russia soundly, and
since that day no subject of the east
! ern empire can understand why any
| Caucasian thinks that the oriental is
in any way inferior, socially, physical
ly or racially. Immediately following
the close of the Japanese war Amer
lean naval officers coming back to this
country from the eastern service, said
| that the Japanese officers actually
were overbearing in their manner TO-
ward Americans. 1t was Theodore
Roosevelt who brought about peace
between the two countries which were
at war, but this fact did nothing to
| change the attitude of Japanese serv-
! ice men toward American service men
The trouble went back of the war, and
| officials here hold it goes back OF
the war today, for it springs from the
law of this country which excludes
Mongolians from citizenship.
Trouble Is Personal.
The Japanese claim that they are
not Mongolians, and that they are
excluded under the law, and that if
a test case should show that they are
not, law should be passed to make
exclusion certain. The trouble be-
tween the Japanese and the American
is personal.
/ Five years ago Theodore Roosevelt
| believed that war with Japan would
come unless California receded from
the position which it had taken In the
school matter. Some of the California
members OF congress, one in particu-
lar, a senator, had opposed the Roose-
Welt administration in it's attempt to
get more battleships. The minute the
trouble seemed likely with Japan
these Californians were ripe for it,
/ and did not seem to think that there
was any possible chance that the de-
/ spised easterner could meet the Amer
/ lean on the sea with any hope of sue
cess for tne eastern arms. The an
/ tagonism which some of the Cali
I fornians had shown to an increase in
/ the navy gave Colonel Roosevelt an
/ opportunity for some direct personal
! remarks To men who he said were Will
/ ing to keep their country unprepared
for trouble. and then at the first op-
portunity sought to rush it into
trouble.
Reform in Currency.
+ President Wilson, Secretary OF the
/ WHY DROWSINESS IN CHURCH