The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-28
FROM OTHER PENS
EASIEST REMEDY

The weakest point in Governor
Johnson's note to Mr.. Bryan is that he
takes for granted the essential point
in the controversy. He assumes as the
basis for his entire contention that the
Japanese are undesirable settlers; that
they ought to be barred in some man
ner; that all America will, as a matter
OF course, agree that they must be bar
red. And on this foundation he con-
structs an ingenious plea that Califor-
MIA Is merely taking a patriotic course
in seeking to bar them and is an
abused and i'll treated community in
that 1t is subjected to criticism and
opposition by the rest of the country.
me correct answer to such an argu-
ment as johnson makes was given by
Theodore Roosevelt, when he was the
old Roosevelt, the president of the
United States, in these words: "I rec
ommend to the congress that an act
be passed specifically providing for
the naturalization of the japanese who
come here intending to become Amer
lean citizens"
Congress did not adopt such a law,
more's the pity. But the very fact
that the administration at Washing
ton had recommended it and stood
ready to fight for it showed the Cali
fornia race proscriptionists that they
couldn't afford to do any more batting
and they remained quiet for a long
time thereafter
law against Japanese naturalization
was made solely for the purpose of
gratifying California's local prejudices
IL never represented a national feel
ing. That is why it is particularly
absurd for Governor johnson to fall
back on this law now as justification
for further anti-Japanese legislation
by California. But since the present
California administration is disposed
to flout the United States government
for having catered to the California
race spirit in the past, it is high time
for the United States to remove this
g rfn To
would have no cause for complaint
about the California legislation If the
United States congress would remove
the bar against the naturalization of
Japanse.-Buffalo Express.
A TARIFF-NURSED INVALID.
The Underwood bill proposes to reduce
make sugar free May 1, 1916
Two kinds of sugar are made in this
country: the cane sugar of Louisiana and
the beet sugar of several western and
northern states.
Beet sugar is natural product of the
the sunshine; we have the skill No other
ingredients are necessary to produce beet
high or low it will continue to be made in
these United States.
Cane sugar Is not natural product OF
that part of North America lying above
the Gulf of Mexico. Owing to the short
ness of the Louisiana season and the cold
ness of the soil, as compared with those
regions where cane is Indigenous, but one
third as much sugar may be produced
from an acre of ground as in the West
Indies. There cane is planted once in
eight years. in Louisiana once in three
years.
The cane sugar business Island has
been for a century-a tariff-nursed invalid
1t VIII never be any better, for the Amerf-
can cllmate Is the wrong one for this par
ticular sick man to get well In
Now the Democracy holds that there ts
no reason why every breakfast table din
ner table and supper table in the coi,ntrv
should be taxed simply to enable a few
hundred sugar planters to follow a bTst
ness that their lands are not adapfed to
And II proposes to put a stoD ~ ahSc
monstrous exercise of privilege. RuF IN
view OF the investment of capital. in the
business and the time element fnvoIyaa q.
any industrial reorganization tine Irnde,,h
wood bill makes Is per cent reductin,,
only In the sugar tax and provideS ~
tree sugar after May l. 19I6-fhree ,,o aor
hence--St Louis Republic Sears