Bisbee daily review., 1916-05-28


 of custom-house protectorates.
 Speaking of Cuba. If Roosevelt had desired bloodshed. he could have had it there in streams. It was under Roosevelt that we were obliged to begin our second occupation of Cuban soil. In 1906 the Liberals revolted against the Moderates. Our agree ment with Cuba was that we were to intervene for the maintenance of a government adequate for the pro- tection of life. property and individual liberty" The "Des Moines" hap pened into the harbor of Havana. The president of Cuba. Palma. was powerless and terrified. He asked for marines. The "Des Moines" sent them It looked as if we were about to take Cuba by force of arms. Roosevelt called the marines back to their ship. In place of marines. he sent Taft. It was a great con trast Taft. unarmed and disarming. proceeded to Havana. and conferred. He tried at first to set up new na- tive government It could not be done. The Cubans could not agree among themselves. Palma resigned. There was then no government at all. Taft stepped into the vacuum and completely filled it. He became Pro visional Governor" There was no bat tie Roosevelt had gone into Cuba. just as he had previously gone into Santo Domingo-by diplomatic seepage.
 The Question of Japanese
 Immigration.
 In October of 1906. the school au- thorities of San Francisco excluded all Japanese of all ages from the regular public schools and directed them to attend a special public school in which they were to be segregated. Japan protested proudly and bitterly. both by popular demonstrations in Tokio and bv diplomatic representa- tions at Washington. appealing to the treaty of 1893.
 In December. within two months after the issuance of the San Fran cisco school order. Roosevelt said to Congress: Tn the matter now before me. affecting the Japanese. every thing that is in my power to do will be done. and all the forces. military and civil. of the United States which I may lawfully employ. will be so Sm- ployed to enforce the rights of aliens under treaties"
 This sentence penetrated Asia to it's farthest literate regions. In the Light of India Baba Bharati re- sponded: The American president has proved himself to be the one ruler of the modern world who has his finger on the pulse of world politics of the present and of the future
 Roosevelt had promised to use the military forces of the United States. He did so. He enlarged the garrison of United States troops in San Fran cisco and let it be known that all vio- lence directed against Japanese would be quenched.
 He believed that Japanese mass immigration was intolerable. and did not hesitate to say so. 'The Japan ese would themselves not tolerate the intrusion into their country of a mass of Americans who would displace Japanese in the business of the land. The people of California are right in insisting that the Japanese shall not come thither in mass"
 He entered into negotiations with the Japanese government. Again there was no public international con troversy. That porcupine. the pub lished diplomatic note. armed with thousand quills and every one of them poisoned was allowed to hibernate. Personally, in conference, where phrases may be unguarded and also unregarded. the representatives of the United States and the representatives of Japan agreed that thereafter no passports would be issued to Japanese coolies entitling them to leave Japan for United States ports. This agree ment has been kept honorably and with a scientific strictness by the ac- curate gentlemen of Japan.
 The material difficulties were ad- justed. A psychological one arose. Because Roosevelt was so ready to use garrisons and law-courts to pro tect the Japanese in California, # be- gan to be thought in Japan that the United States feared Japan. There fore in November the United States fleet started for Japan. It was Roose- velt's greatest service to peace. He got the Nobel Peace Prize for doing thing which. by comparison, was parlor trick. He got it for interven- ing between two spent duellists. He in- troduced physically groggy Russia to a financially trembling Japan at Ports mouth. New Hampshire. Pacificism gave him s40.O00 and diploma for do- ing that The time when he was real peacemaker and rot a mere peace usher was when he himself was pos sible combatant and when. instead of waiting for the explosion, he walked up to the burning fuses of war in San Francisco and Japan and snuffed them out with his own hand.
 In the harbor of Yokohama the Japanese saw sixteen American bat tleships. doing a globe-circumnavfga- tion which many European critics had declared impossible. They saw; they admired; like the men Roosevelt knew them to be. they were thrilled to re- spect.
 Roosevelt did not avoid" war. He saw 1t coming and went out to meet it and fetched 1t a watchful wallop across its brow and left it dead.
 A Genius for Diplomacy.
 The foundation of all Roosevelt's dt plomacy was that he kept the fleet at the tor-notch of fighting efficiency. When he said to von Holleben. What l say goes; but. if it doesn't. the fleet does.' he said it clearly and promptly and changelessly; and von Holleben, looking straight at him. knew that he