TALK OF WAR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1105, 19 April 1911, Page 5

TALK OF WAR.

THE IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. UNITED STATES AND JAPAN, By Tclecraptt—Press Association—Copyriebt San Francisco, April 1". A spcifker at a mass meeting of tho Asiatic Exclusion Leaguo declared that unless Japanese immigration ceas-ed war would result. A STORM OF OPPOSITION. Tho naw commercial treaty with Japan has raised a perfect storm of opposition as far as the Pacific Coast is concerned, 'because the treaty, which is to supersede that of 1891, contains no mention of restricting Japanese immigration. President Taft and both Houses of Congress have been deluged with protests and resolutions from tho Pacific States over the matter, tho chief opposition to the treaty coming from the California Legislature. A rosolution was parsed by that body recently petitioning tho Senate to reject the treaty, and instructing tho Gilifornian delegation in Congress to opposo it. Consequently the treaty has been hung up for a while, but subsequently ratified by the Senate. Clauses bearing upon tho restriction of Japanese immigration were omitted from the treaty, with the object of saving Japan from the discussion of a subject which is offensive to her. It is intended to settle the matter by diplomatic means. Tho now treaty re-estab-lishes the situation of a few years ago, which gave rise to anti-Asiatic demonstrations on tho Pacific Coast, and is likely to bo a source of great embarrassment to the Administration.

Being anxious that tho Californian Legislature should take no action inimical to the new treaty with Japan, President Taft recently telegraphed to Mr. Johnson, Governor of California, asking him to explain the treaty arrangement in both ttoufes of the Stato Legislature. The President save the treaty and Japan's insurances of a continuance of the recent arrangements made by her are exactly such as Mr. Johnson approved when Mr. Knox, Secretary of State, and ~ President Taft himself explained them to him.