The Brunswick news., 1913-05-03
SHOWING WHY CALIFORNIA
is RIGHT.

ready showing signs Of distress ia It's
parEuit Of California in its alien land
business. It was intimsted at the
cabinet meeting yesterday that sug
we're coming from various
'Darts Of the country hat more
careful effort be made by the Wash
inton authorities to obtain the view
point Ct California in this matter be-
fore proceeding to too strenuous in
sissance upoa a modification Of the
states program. In other words,
California expresses more closely the
national sentiment than seems to
havc been assumed a. Washington.
though why this should be so is not
easily appreciated. since all that Cal
fornia has Undertaken 70 do Is u
apply national policy. expreeSed n
be Moneolian exclusl9 ~ stutes, 70
local situation. mafi1 nelisibillty to
laticnal pslXs6 Eligibility TO state
rivilega fameno, Mr.. Bryan
aas enthusiasm in the
@o't sged upon, and has
iceI pointed in the definition Of
rs ob - a personal representa-.
ION thc President He empha.
'ize6ssn his initial address to the
,alifornia legislature, the fact that
e was present at the direct request
)f the President and that what he
aid WAS spoken for the Prseidcn.
nd not for himself Mr. Bryan pre-
ented a roor casc 10 Gtrals hifor-
yard enough way, and was consider
to and even tempered. That he
allied utterly to convince his hearers
hat they were in the wrong is not
uprising. They are not in tbs
srong. ana Mr.. Bryan know chat be
ore he left Washington TO contend
With them. The president Is learn
1g that they are not wrong. Per
'aps he; too knew it all the time. Il
he end ali that the administration
viii have accomplished viii be ali
Impression Of exhaustive ondeayor to
10 everything possible to satisfy the
Obligations Of diplomacy and to re
luce 10 minl l6um the irritation og
iapan. u mu| be said that nothing
as been dond by the president o.
~ Mr.. Rryan Aronahonf that eonie
"a taken in olrenSe or otherwise thar
q kindly spirit ry the people Of Cal
rornia. There has been no hectorins
I the state in the manner Of Mr.
'ooseYelt, when he had a similar is.
iue to deal with There has been no
hreat of coercion 1t has all been
ientle argument, and franz. eoncee
ion cf the rights OF the Californian
o take the course they have marked
The attitude has been rather ono Of
lppeal to California to concede ONE
hing, il only time, to the exingencies
il situation that concerned the M
ion at large. and the whole matter
eems to have assumed now the
hape Of a suggestion that The United
States will endeayor to adiast it's ma
ional interests TO the practical con
litions Of California, rather than de
nand that California adjust its con
lition to the national attitude That
nay or may not work oat, but, n
cast, it shows a good disposition on
he part cf the national adminisaa
ion toward state Of the unioa
which Is acting within her rights
md aceod tns to he tized policy 9
he natioi
That a xuistake has been made Al
in pressing this matter
90 c.esely upon California may vel
levelop before the whole thing IL
'nded. BY concerning itself toe
losely With the affairs Of the state
lie national admintration has, In q
Measure. committed itself to the al
ornasNe Of either approving tbs
curse that viii ultimately be taken
" California, and thereby admitting
is error in attempting TO change il
IL else BY repudiating that course
md attempting some measure Of CO
arcion upon a state II would have
aeen better had the Washington
contented themselves
with pointing out to japan that Cali.
faruia was doing no more than hst