The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-19

| The number of schools in San Fran cisco prior to April IS was seventy -six. c.: or grammar schools and two hlgh I schools were destroyed by fire, and one l high school was destroyed by earth quake. leaving forty. I schools ssrI,cs since l tures have been erected, making the to- I tai number of school building at the
 present time seventy-two. A map
 schools sch in San Francisco attended by Japanese pupils up to the time the or I der of the board went into etfect is hsrswlsh submitted; ss and ndrtiaS mdisSed If Fife fife tthe bUned section of San Francisco.
 The oriental school the sehel set set Korean children. is In the burned sec ! tion. There Is only one Japanese stu
 dent attending this school at the pres | ent time, and there are no Japanese | public sehois. 1 visited the Oriental School in company with the Japa- nese consul and found 1t to com | new temporary structures erected In ] the city. The course of instruction is exactly the same as at the otass public ssSIsd sshols, anS oT c0@RstSh' dRStS thIs school Nearly all the pupils attend l Ing this school have to be taught Sthe | English language l A hereto will at cnce clearly show that | 1t will be absolutely impossible Tor l children residing in the<Temots sections School. TSe conditions in, san Fran ] cisco are such, owing to the great con l flagration. that 1t would not De possi i ble even for grown children living at l remote distances to attend this school 1 If the action of the board stands. then, ana if no schools are provided in ad- dition to the one mentioned, 1t seems that a number Of Japanese children will l be prevented from attending the public l schools and will have to resort to prl- vate instruction. z.4. very strong against Japanese young men attending the primary grades
 Many of the people we're tbs oStsPSsea CapSe asY ine that they would take exactly. the same stand against American men oi similar ages attending the primary
 grades I am frank to say that thti
 objection seems to me most reas
 onnble one. All of the political partiei | of the State have Inserted In theil | platforms blanks in favor of Japanest and Korean exclusion. and on March ] 1905, the State Legislature passed ,; joint resolution urging that action b' taken by treaty or otherwise to I'm m of Japanese laborers into the United
 The press of San Francisco prett, generally upholds the action of thi ! Board of Education. Of the attitude, 0
 inc more violent and radical newspa
 pers it Is unnecessary to speak furthe tone of hostility to "Mongol hordes. and the burden of their claim is tha
 Japanese are no better than Chinese
 and that the same reasons which dc
 for. the exclusion of the Japanese a well.
 The temper and tone of the more con
 seryative newspapers may better be il lustfated by an epltome or thsir argu
 ment upon the public school question
 That argument practically is as fol . lows: The public Schools of Californtt are q State and not a Federal instltu , ton. The State has the power tt abolish these schools entirely, and th Federal Government would have II, , right to lift it's voice in protest CpoI the other hand. the State may exten' the privileges of it's schools to aiieni upcn such terms as it, the state. ma! elect. and the Federal Government hal
 no right to question It's action In thtI | regard. Primarily and essentially thu public schools are Resigned for the ed
 f%'' The State S' IS '9 interested in in the me ed1es
 ton of it's own citizens alone. II woult
 not for moment maintain this eXpen'
 sive institution to educate foreigner
 countries the fruits of such education Therefore, if 1t should be held thal
 there was discrimination .operatins
 Tn violation of the treaty with Japan m the States treatment of Japanest
 children. or even if new treaty witt
 Japan should be framed which would
 contain on behalf of Iapanese subjects
 the most favored nation clause. this
 could and would he met bv the state
 which would then exclude from the use
 Of it's public schools all alien children
 of every nationality and lirnit the right.
 of free education to children of It's
 own citizens. for whom the svster
 is primarily desiened and maintained
 and if the State should do this the Fed,
 eral Government rould not cninrla In | sfnrn no frnatv rf~ht coIlld he N-folnfe ef