The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-08
CALIFORNIA HATES The JAPS.
DEMANDS THAT THEY he EN-
CLI'DED Az CHINESE ARE.
Matter VIII he Brought Up Tn Congress
This winter - MctcaIf Finishes Ills
Inquiry san Ersnclscans Say lie Has
Found Nothing 10 Help Japan's Cause

FOunu NOthing 10 heip 5apahr cause
SAN Francisco, Nov. 7.-Secretary Met
calf will leave San Francisco for Wash
inzton on Monday.
With him he will carry a report which
he will make to the President regarding
the segregation OF the Japanese in the
public schools OF this city.
just what the report will say can only
be conjectured, as il will, of course. be
made public only after its submission to
the President.
II seems safe to say, however, that San
Francisco and California have little to fear
from the contents Of the S~ecretary's report.
Japan had three things to complain Of:
n was the boycotts upon Japanese mer-
chants; another was a series OF assault rs
on Japanese citizens; the third was the
school matter.
Inquiry develops the fact that the boy
cotting was sporadic and OF little conse-
quence. and the assaults tho deeds Of a
hoodlum element, much as in the case Of
the Japanese earthquake expert who was
stoned by small boys in the streets OF the
city.
Moreover the police rave captured q
gang Of criminals who confess to the MUIR
der OF the Japanese banker, whose death
was the principal crime Of violence in the
Japanese catalogue Of complaints.
1t seems absurd TO think that any nation
could make much capital on either OF these
counts.
But Of course the school kick is the chief
one. And right here Japan seems TO have
a weak case. A learned jurist discussed
the matter with The Sun correspondent
to-day.
If the Japanese treaty contained a
favored nation clause, said he, 1t is hard
to see how the courts could fail to justify
the contention that s~egregating the Japa-
nese so far as school accommodations
are concerned il a violation OF that treaty.
But the treaty with Japan does not contain
a favored nation clause. Consequently
California, as one of the federated States,
is in no way bound to extend to japanese
citizens all the privileges that it extends
to persons Of other Municipalities.
1T might be possible to upset the ruling
Of the San Francisco school board upon the
technical ground that the Japanese are
not Mongolians, and hence do not come
within the scope Of the State law permitting
school boards to force the attendance of
Mongolians at separate school =. But that
would be a meaningless victory for tn
Japanese M a temporary one, for the law
would certainly be amended imm sdiately.
Il cannot see that there il any real rea-
son to expect the decision Of the school
board to be reversed by any method what
ever or that Secretary Metoalf il likely
to urge any steps for its reversal Upon the
President.
There ia in fact no likelihood that the
uproar raised in japan about the treatment
OF her citizens in San Francisco will have
any practical effect whatever, except 20
breed i'll will and suspicion between the
two countries.
California and this city quite understand
that, Japan having complained. the Presi-
dent could do no less than send a representa-
tive to investigate the matter. They think
lone the less Of the President for his action.
but they are by no means enthusiastic about
it. They regard il merely as a move neces-
sary for purposes OF diplomacy, but prac-
tically OF not the smallest account"
Behind this entire case lies the fact that
San Francisco has the entire approval OF
not only California, but the whole Pacific
slope. There 10 no dissenting voice worth
considering. The slope is as unanimous
on this point as is the solid South regarding
separate schools and c~onveuiences for
negroes.
This affair, trihing as it may seem to
be, aside from the i'll feeling it has aroused
in japan, strikes much deeper than it
appears to do. 1t strikes no deep, in fact,
that it will stir up a troublous sea OF anti
racial agitation that will before long
threaten to inundate Congress itself.
Cslifornisns take IL as a matter OF course,
but it will probably startle most Fasteners
to learn that a California Representative in
Congress ia almost certain to present at
the coming session a bill! demanding the
exclusion OF the Japanese from this coun-
try under practically the same terms under
which the Chinese are at present barred out.
More than this. the political machinery
OF both the Republican and Democratic
parties in the State OF California will be
employed to the limit Of it's strength to
force the passage OF this japanese exclusion
bill. The people Of the other furtbest
Western States may not yet be up to the
point OF urging enthusiastically such an
extreme measure. put they are v now
in practical sympathy with the Californians
and the drift Ia certainly in favor OF exclu-
sion.
The East may gasp at this and say sim
possible" mt probably ever the most
rabid Of the Californian haters OF the Japa-
nese does not expect the coming session Of
Congress to exclude the little yellow men.
1T took time to bar the Chinese" say the
C~aIifornians. 1T will take time to bar the
japanese, but Wen get il finally
The State 10 not unanimous in favor Of
this programme. The big farmers and
fruit rover would scarcely know where
to turn for labor with which to operate their
enterprises were il not for the Japanese.
Rut in the cities even the solidest Of the solid
citizens agree with the union labor element
that the japanese collectively are a nuisance.
In short, II one may Judge from conditions
10 California, the more the whites see OF the
yellows the more they dislike them. At
all events the Californian most heartily dis
likes the Japanese, and. Whist il more, he
fears him.
He points TO the fact that japanese la' or
now dominates the Hawaiian Islands en-
tirely and that the immigration figures