And it seems to 11e that the sane general principle applies with eIllial force to intelnI lonal comIll/erce. l eltivly spleaking. the citllns of these United Staites represent a great family. wille the citizells of Japan represent another. knd thy ought to be .able to stIll ilty froinl eatch other. sel to cach 0ther. ntiltransact Iusiness generally Mill each other without the necessity. however. of itiletr tlking the laborers of the other into the bosoms 6f their res)cclive fanillies. ]int ls coIIntry of oars. vwith its divers and SOliel nies confIlicting illIerists it: takes a long tim1e to bring alolut a decided siltilent Oil slucll fil imllortant (iiestion as the exclsion Of 11nty Iarti Clh1r race. In the 111ltIon of Chinese exchlsion. although the esidents of California were Iralleic1lly It 1unit oil the stljectl it took four long years of constant and aggressive agitation to bring about the enactment of the first Chinese iminil gratioll Ivs. lA ld II tlhough a qiarter of a century has rolled alround sine then I thin 1 the overwhcilling CntiInlat of tle peOlple of this cointry is in favyor of the rigid enforcement of those laws. provided tlilwas 1hat 110 I0rsolal indignities are. visited lip0on those Cllnese who are splecially eXell)ted fron the proisions of those laws. An li therfore lho people Of Il Ifofl a. vith the experieiices of the pist to guifde the. had looked forward to a long fulld bitter struggle to secure the extension of the exclusion laws to Japanese and Korean coolies. But the incident of the segregation of Japanese children from white children in the primary and grammar schools of San Francisco at once brought the question of the exclusion of Japanese laborers into the foreground and made it a burning. vital issue. For some reason or other in the discussion of the matter of the segregation of pupils an effort has been made to create the impression throughout the country that San Francisco had denied all Japanese children admission into her public schools. *No such step has even been contemplated.