The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-18

l was informed by the chief of police
that upon receipt Of a communication
from the Japanese consul ne at once
instructed captains of police to make
every effort to stop these assaults,
and, if necessary, to assign men in
citizens clothes to accomplish the pur-
pose. The correspondence between the
Japanese consul and the chief of police
and the acting mayor of the city is
hereto attached and marked Exhibit
E. (page 49,
l deemed it best, in order to get at
the facts, to take the statements of
the japanese who claimed to nave been
assaulted. These statements were
taken at the Japanese consulate in San
Francisco by Mr.. ]. S. Med. Gardner,
interpreter in the immigration service
at San Francisco. and Mr.. X. Kawasa-
XII, a Japanese studuent in the senior
class of the University of California.
Since these statements are in the
words of the victims themselves and
show, as nothing else could, such
grounds as there are upon which to
found a complaint Of violence.
are here given in full:
These attacks, so I am informed,
with but one exception were made
when no policeman was in the imme-
diate neighborhood. Most of them
were made by boys and young men;
many Of them were vicious in charac-
ter, and only one appears to have been
made with a view of robbing the per-
son attacked. All these assaults ap-
pear to have been made subsequent to
the fire and earthquake in San Francis
CO, and my attention was not called
to any assaults made prior to the 18th
day of April, 1906.
DR.. F. Omori, of the Imperial Uni
versity of Toxic, one Of the worlds
most distinguished scientists, and, as
stated by Prof. George Davidson, or
the University of California, one of
the greatest living authorities in seis-
biography, sent to San Francisco by
the Japanese government to study the
causes and effects Of the earthquake,
was stoned by hoodlums In the streets
Of San Francisco. Prof. T. Nakamura,
professor Of architecture in the Imper-
ial University of Toxic, was also stoned
in the streets of San Francisco by
young toughs and hoodlums. Doctor
Omori was also assaulted when visit
ing Eureka, Cal. Neither of these emf
nent gentlemen made formal complaint
of these assaults, and wished that no
official recognition be taken of them.
I attach hereto copy Of letter of Pro-
fessor Davidson. calling the attention
of the press of San Francisco to these
assaults, as also copies Of letters of
the postmaster of San Francisco, the
mayor of San Francisco the governor
of the state, and the mayor of Eureka;
expressing their, great regret for these
assaults and apOlogizing that they
should have been made. See Exhibit
F. (p. 36)
1 know that these assaults upon
the Japanese are universally con-
demned by all good citizens of Califor-
MIA. For months the citizens of San
Francisco and Oakland have been ter
| rorized by numerous murders, assaults,
and robberies, both at day and night.
The police have been powerless. The
assaults upon the Japanese, however,
were not made, in my judgment, with
view of robbery, but rather from
feeling of racial hostility, stirred up
by newspaper accounts of meetings that
have been held at different times rel
alive to the exclusion of japanese from
the United States.
| The police records of San Francisco
show that between May 6, 1906, and
J November 5, 1906, 29O cases OF assault,
ranging from simple assaults to as
saults with deadly weapons and as
saults with murderous intent, were re-
ported to the police of San Francisco.
OF the number so reported, seven
were for assaults committed by Jap
anese and two complaints were made
against Japanese for disturbing the
peace. The Japanese population IN
San Francisco is about 5000. The to-
tai population of San Francisco today
is estimated to be between 325,O0O and
$4,000.
While the sentiment OF the state
of California, as manifested by the
public utterances of the japanese and
Korean Exclusion league, by articles
in MANY of the leading newspapers IN
the state, by declarations of the poll
teal parties in their platforms, ana py
the passage of a joint resolution by the
state legislature on March 7, 1905, is
in favor of the exclusion of japanese
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