Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1906 — ROOSEVELT AND JAPAN. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT AND JAPAN.

The attitude of Japan with respect to the California school question might possibly be excused on the ground of ignorance of our institutions. ‘But nothing of that sort can excuse President Roosevelt’s foolish threats to use the army and navy to force the school authorities of a city or state to do a thing which they have a constitutional right to refuse to do. On this question, as on a good many others, the people of the United States are not with the president. The New York Herald says : It is significant that in the long series of interviews collected by the Herald in connection with (apan's California dispute, interviews with men representing every branch of American activity, business, law, the educational profession, diplomacy; interviews with men from widely separated states, with senators, congressmen and members of the parliamentary committees, a decided tendency is displayed to uphold California individually and collectively. Mr. Roosevelt’s excessive praise of the Japanese, in his message, and his no less intemperate criticism of the American people on the Pacific coast, will doubtless cause a further swelling of the Japanese cranium. By the Japanese government the utterances will be attributed to fear of its power.