The Mena weekly star., 1916-05-25

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 special public school in which they were to be segregated. Japan protested proudly and bitterly, both by popular demonstrations in Tokio and by diplomatic representa-. tions at Washington, appealing to tho 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 l may lawfully employ, will be so em- 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 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- troyersy That porcupine, the pub lished diplomatic note, armed with a 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 emitting them to leave Japan for United States ports This agree. ment has been kept honorably and with scientific strictness by the ac- curate gentlemen of Japan.
 The material difficulties were ad- lusted. psychological one arose. Because Roosevelt was so ready to use garrisons and law-courts to pro tect the Japanese in California, it 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- velts greatest service to peace He got the Nobel Peace Prize for doing thing which by comparison, was a parlor trick He got fl for interven- ing between two spent duellists He inc troduced a physically groggy Russia to q financially trembling Japan at Ports mouth. New Hampshire, Pacificism Et-Ft A*s%A FNHtSVt dtiQ a 04HtOkId AOI uUN ing that The time when he was real peacemaker and not mere peace usher was when he himself was a 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 snd snuffed them out with his own hand.
 In the harbor of Yokohama the Japanese saw sixteen American bat tleships, doing globe-circumnayig tion which many European critics had declared impossible. They saw; they admired; like the men Roosevelt knew them to be. they wore thrilled to re- spect.
 Roosevelt did not avoid war. He saw # coming and went out to meet it and fetched is q watehful wallor across it's brow and left it dead. stafa