The Forrest City times., 1913-05-09
BITTER FEELING TOWARD AMER lCANS LONG KNOWN BY ARMY
 AND NAVY MEN,
WAR IS CERTAIN SOME DAY
CalifornIa's Attitude Toward Orientals Sure to Cause Clash, Sooner or later-HoId Washington Respon- sible for Act of Any State.
By GEORGE CLINTON.

secretary Of State Bryan have learn ed II they never knew before, that the Japanese people do not Nike the Amer leans Members of congress do not regard It as at all likely that Cali iorhla attitude towards the owner snip Of land in that state by the Jap anese will bring on a war between Japan and the United States, but from what members of both houses say 1t IS known they do believe that if Cali Iornla goes to the extent which she promises to go in forbidding owner snip Of her land by the Japanese alien. we will have a commercial war With the Japanese that possibly may be disastrous.
 IL 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 or what men of the two services say, their belief that one day we are 10 nave serious trouble does not arise rom the instincts of their profes- sion, but from knowledge which they nave obtained from actual contact With Japanese naval and military of hcers in the east. and from 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 a 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 ings of the military spirit of Ameri- can soldiers and sailors, it Is felt by offlcers 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.
 BIames Washington.
 If the Japanese people do not under stand the limitations of federal pow CT 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 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 UtArn ,lxr Now the administration is being told that the Japanese people do not un- 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. mlnlstratlon knows it through other 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 infeSior, socially, physical ly or racially. Immediately following the close Of the Japanese war Amer ican 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 It 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 fin the school matter. Some of the California members of congress, one in particu- lar, senator, had opposed the Roose- welt administration in it's attempt to get more battleships. The minute the trouble seemed likely with Japan these Callfornians 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 iean on the sea with any hope of sue cess for the eastern arms The an- tagonism which some of the Cali fornians had shown to an increase in the navy gave Colonel Roosevelt an opportunity for some direct personal 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 1t into |