The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-21

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fundamental facts in the Cool
break with Japan on the issue
immigration has come.
The Hanihara note, suggest
ing grave consequences" to the
relations between the United
States and Japan if this Asiatic
exclusion brand should be plac-
ed upon his countrymen, has
given the anti-Japanese ele-
ments and the anti-Hughes ele-
ments their chance. No man can
foresee the results, in America and in
Asia and in Europe, of this conjunc-
ton of interests. Russia may gain
new ally in Japan.
Cal In Bad Either Way.
If Coolidge vetoes the congressional
exclusion Of Japanese immigrants
from this country, he will lose what
little political following he may have
among the people Of California, Ore
gon and Washington. If he does not
dated the eager support given by
Secretary of State Hughes to Toxic.
and will have given the democrats a
basis for immediate demand that
Hughes resign. Even tho Hughes
stays and Coolidge signs the bill, Cali
fornia will go for La Toilette or for
the democratic nominee next Novem-
Der. Hanihara did not realize this
when he sent his strong note-almost
as strong as Coolidge's own note in
defense of Mellon few days earlier.
Nor did he realize that party strategy
in campaign requires of the profes-
sional politician that he become a
lingo.
Forces Treaty With Russia.
When the dust shall have cleared
away, some result of the explosion
will possibly be found to be:
I. That Japan's repressive mill
tary government will be pulled
down by the liberal parties, and
new foreign policy adopted.
2. That this policy will call for
Japanese recognition and close ties
with Russia, as an obvious defense
against the British-American COM
bnatIon in the far east, while
Japan slowly builds up again.
8. That agitation for freedom on
the part Of the Koreans will be re-
sumed, and that Russia will insist
that the conditions to an under
standing with Japan shall include
better treatment of the 100000
Koreans.
4. That senate politicians who
have championed the early inde-
pendence of the Philippines will
lose interest while the army and
navy and big business Hobbies in
Washington will unite to keep the
flag flying in the east"
5. That, far from removing the
Japanese immigration problem from
discussion, this move will simply
project the issue into the field Of
world intrigue, and thereby increase
the probability Of another world
war In this generation.
Anti-Asiatic For Politics.
Fundamentally, the politicians in
senate do not care whether an addi-
tional 146 Japanese come into the
United States each year. But the
democrats saw in the Hanihara-
Hughes correspondence an opportu-
nifty and they became, all of a sud-
den, violently anti-Asiatic. In this
they had the encouragement of the
three California rivals - Senators
Hiram Johnson and Sam Shortbridge,
republicans and ex-senator James
Phelan, democrat. Shortbridge helped
to railroad Tom Mooney to prison;
Johnson kept him there, and Phelan
stood proudly on his early record of
having sent out the police, when he
was mayor of San Francisco, to club
the striking teamsters, from the ferry
terminal to the city hall. Now they
chorus their loyalty to the California
workingman.