The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1906-12-07
CHL,IFORN|H
UP IN hRMS
President S MESSAGE Is
Severely Scored
PRESS AND PEOPLE
ARE UNANIMOUS
Chronicle Saus Efforts to Gdrru
Out Threats Would Lead
to Impeachment

A San francisco special to the Ore
gonian, under date of the 5th inst, pre-
sents the following view OF President
Roosevelts recommendations in refer
ence to the japanese in his annual mes
sage:
Popular sentiment in California, which
has been smouldering quietly during the
discussion of the Japanese question, has
been famed into fame by the heated
declaration in the presidents message.
Resentment is general The impression
prevails in both high and low places that
Mr. Roosevelt has done the state and
the entire Pacific Coast a grave injus-
tice. His flat assertion that the Japa-
nese have been driven from the COM
mon schools; his inference of a low civ
ilization; the reference to the discrimi-
nation as wicked absurdity," and final
ly his suggestion of the use of military
force have made of a question which
has heretofore excited but little interest
burning topic. The proposal to grant
citizenship to the Japanese is roundly
denounced by the press of the state.
STATE IN PASSIVE REBELLION.
California at the moment is in state
of passive rebellion. No action will be
taken until the question has been
threshed out in all its legal phases Pro-
fessor Louis Hengstler, head of the de-
partment of international and constitu-
tional law at the University of Cali
fornia, declared today that Mr.. Roose-
welt in his contention did mot have
leg to stand on"
Consul-General Miller, of Yokohama,
who is in California on visit, met this
morning with the school board and re-
ceived full statistics on the subject
United States District Attorney Robert
I. Devlin, acting on instructions from
Attorney General Moody, at the request
of Secretary of State Root, conferred at
length this afternoon with City Attorney
William Burke in an endeavor to arrive
at an agreement on the law involved,
with view to a test in the state or
federal courts.
WILL STIFFEN SCHOOL LAW.
Governor-elect Gillett refused to dis
cuss the issue, but members of the legis-
lature which will meet in January are
almost unit in their assertion that the
state law providing for separate schools
for Japanese will be strengthened in
stead of relaxed, and the California del
egation in congress will be instructed to
redouble its efforts to secure the passage
of Japanese exclusion bill
CALLS ROOSEVELT INSINCERE.
Following are extracts from the state
press:
San Francisco Chronicle-This is an
implied threat to use the military forces
to put Japanese children into our
schools, when he well knows that he has
no authority to do anything of the kind
and that any such attempt could only
lead to his own impeachment The ex-
preston will strike the country as an ex-
hibition of impotent rage which it is
very mortifying to see in formal mes
sage of the president But the worst Of
all is the presidents evident insincerity
When referring 10 Hawaii, he says:
Hawaii is now making an effort to Sc
cure immigration fit in the end to as
sumo the duties and burdens of full
American citizenship"
That language and the context show
that the president recognizes that the
immigration which Hawaii has been re-
ceiving is not SO fit That immigration,
however has recently been almost ex-