Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-25
Will FIGHT THE JAPS FEW NOW To Be SEEN
Cafonans Auan DenoInce Business Symbols Disappearing
the President and MetcaH From the Streets.
,,,vo, eou,urz,c eprrcu ONCE WERE VERY COMMON
BARRIERS Wooden Indians
Says That He Would Lay Down
His Life
MATTER STATES RIGHTS
The den Forearm Holding
Public Meeting Declares Roosevets
Interf in the ~ ~ 100000 "
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MAYOR SCHMlTz'S SPEECH
He Says That He Would Lay Down
His Life.
ALL MATTER OF STATES RIGHTS
Public Meeting Declares Roosevelt's
Interference in the Public School
Controversy is Unwarranted.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 25.-Resolu-
lions denouncing President Roosevelts mes
sage to Congress on the Japanese situation
in San Francisco, resenting his interference
in the domestic affairs of the state, ex-
pressing want of confidence in Secretary
Metcalf and declaring that his report to
the President on the Japanese school ques-
ton as being utterly unworthy of credence
in any particular and containing numerous
misstatemeEts and Misrepresentation, OBJ
viously one-sided and grossly exaggerated
were adopted at a mass-meetng held yes
terday afternoon at Walton's Pavilion. I'M
der the auspices of the Japanese and Ko-
rean Exclusion League.
About $500 persons were in attendance.
c. y. Tvetmoe. president of the league and
secretary of the state building trades coun-
Gil. was chairman. Among the speakers
who discussed the situation were Mayor
SChmitz, Police Commissioner w. r. Hag-
erty, who is also president of the San Fran
cisco labor council; p. II. Mccarthy, pres
ident of the building trades council; Walter
Macarthur editor of the Coast Seamen s
Journal, and other labor leaders.
Would Lay Down His Life.
Mayor Schmitz said that he was willing
TO lay down his life by the side of his fellow
men in fighting the Japanese hordes." He
said that ii was question of sef-preserva-
ton for the merchant and business man. as
well as for the laborer, and declared that
the Japanese were more of a menace than
the Chinese. If naturalized, as proposed by
President Roosevelt. he said they would
come to California in such numbers that
they would not only soon control the state
by their votes, but would make nroads into
the prosperity of the country.
Walter Macarthur said that the people
laf thair ctata fpbf
against the assumption of these latter-day
federalists." and declared that the issue of
state rights raised by the Presidents mes
sage has superseded the issue OF the segre-
cation of the Japanese children.
The other speakers addressed the meeting
along similar lines, defending state rights
and characterized the Presidents attitude
as meddling in the affairs of this state.
Resolutions termed a reply to the Pres
ident were adopted, of which the following
are part:
Resolved. That we insist upon and shall,
to the limit of power, maintain our
rights under the Constitution of the United
States and the constitution of California
and. matter of practical necessity and
mental well-being of our people. to segre-
gate the pupils in the schools In such man.
ner as reason and experience shall dictate,
and to adopt and enforce such other regu-
latOns as may he deemed wise and eXpe-
dent in the conduct of our educational and
other state or municipal affairs; further.
TO the SLdC6.
Resolved. That we resent the Presi-
dents threats of compulsion by armed force
in, a matter clearly within the, puryiew of
municipal and state authority as insulting
to the state and as an intolerable reflection
upon its rights sovereign constituent
of the United States.
"Resolved That we are opposed to the
Presidents recommendation that an act be
passed specifically providing for the natu-
ralization of the Japanese and that the
powers of the federal government be en-
larged for the purpose of subverting the
proper authority OF this and other states.
The resolutions declared that Secretary
Metcalfs allegation that the Japanese and
Korean Exclusion League participated in a
boycott on the japanese restaurants us
contrary to fact and based chiefly upon
misinterpretation of press reports on the
leagues proceedings"
Continuing, the resolutions read:
Resolved That we deny and protest
against these and other features of Secre-
tary Metcalf's report to President Roosevelt
as unjust, untrue and misleading; and be 1t
further
Resolved, That the report of Secretary
Metcalf is utterly unworthy in any par
ticular, the same being obviously a one
sided and grossly exaggerated presentation
of incidents which, so far as they exist at
all, bear no significance to the question at
issue between the governments of the
United States and Of Japan. or between the
state of California and President Roose
Welt further
Resolved, That we hereby express our
lack of confidence in Secretary Metcalf as
one who having been honored and trusted
by our citizens, has sought to betray our
interests in a matter vitality affecting the
welfare of the present and future genera
tions."