The Washington herald., 1906-12-04
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United States being placed in an extreme
| ly awkward attitude before the world.
Pacific Coast Senators and Representa-
tives take a much more conservative view
of Japanese feeling over the San Fran
cisco school incident than is entertained
I in the East or in administration circles.
/ Senator Flint, Of California, said yester-
day ne was surprised to find the senti-
ment so decided in the East
'-Our people are not excited said he.
''They are not expecting any serious trou-
ble to follow what has occurred. If the
situation should become critical / feel
sure that action will be taken by the
/ Californa delegation and the State au-
thorities that will at once bring about a
disposition of the school question which
will satisfy Japan's sense Of justice"
"The best thing that can be done to
bring about a settlement OF the matter. -
said Representative Kahn, who comes
from one of he San Francisco districts.
sis TO stop the agitation. Our California
people will work out the problem alone
and satisfactorily If they are permitted
/ 10 do SO. There are several phases Of the
I
| thoroughly understand. 1t is a race ques-
ton. There IS no use trying TO get around
! that fact There is more to il than a
/ school question. After the fire we were
sorely pressed for school room to accom-
modate the children; imagine then the re-
| sentiment which our people naturally felt
when they found the little ones crowded
out by full grown japanese men, occupy
/ ing the places of bOyg and girls ( eight
and ten years Of age Naturally, the
school board took action to segregate
| them. 1t is probable that little would
/ have been heard of the matter even then
/ had 1t not been for the fact that the ia
/ paHesc newspapers. OF which here are six
or eight in san Francisco, had not taken
up the matter and made complaints. They
are Of the yellow variety. most Of them.
| They started the agitation, and it was
! their action which aroused the japanese
/ at home
After the Fire in Frisco.
Again. the people Of San Francisco
found this situation confronting them
after the fire: Houses were at premium.
/ Tenants who had been paying so a month
] for residence in the best part Of the city
/ found themselves driven from home by
/ japanese, who came in and offered two
and three times as much rent as the white
people had been paying, or were able To
pay. Handsome residences they turned
! into immense japanese boarding and Iodg-
4 ing houses. with sixty, seventy. and a
/ hundred tenants. These japanese board
! ing houses were established in the best
part Of town and drove out the white
I residents, who were naturally indignant.
/ The influx of japanese since the IRE has
/ been AZ the rate of l.000 a month. They
/ see business opportunities in the upbuild-
/ ing OF the city. and the tendency by THIS
/ large increase IN japanese population is
! % drive out the whites. for reasons which
are apparent Altogether. these conditions
/ have produced a race feeling which the
people Of san Francisco are seeking to
cure.
My own opinion Is that the affair will
/ In a short time adjust Itself If we are
( left alone. Intelligent japanese realize
that We have the right 20 enact laws for
our own protection, the same as they
have In their own country. and II the
! popular clamor can be hushed there will
be no trouble"
California Delegation to Meet.
/ Mr.. Kahn does not believe there viii be
any action ca japanese matters in Con-
/ gress. There viii be a meeting Of the Cal
ifornia delegation In a few days. and the
members viii act as a unit in whatever
decision is reached, regarding their
/ course upon the subject if it is TO be con-
sidered by Congress.
Other Pacific Coast members declared
that while It was perhaps early to say
so. they believed a japanese exclusion act
was sure TO come. and with il the possi-
/ biiity Of war. "The Japs who come over.
said one member who did not wish 10
/ speak for publication, ARE nearly all
( mechanics A Jap will cut open an Amer
+ lean shoe. see how it is put together. and
set up shop as a cobbIer invariably un-
dorbiddiug the American shoemaker in
/ the same block. In the Vaca Valley, Japs
I have driven out all other labor in truck
/ ing and fruit raising. They are quick
/ snappy, and naturally combative and
/ competitive. Our labor will not endure
( them IN multiplying numbers. They are
now landing at the rate Of LOCO a month.
! Diplomacy may settle the question by
getting Japan 10 divert her emigrants to
/ Nanchuria and Korea. We might sell
Japan the Philippines. That might settle
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slaughed by them. Our delegation met
and discussed japanese exclusion at the
opening of this Congress. Representative
/ Mckinley introduced a bill providing for
! Japanese exclusion. Everywhere in the
/ East that proposition was pronounced un-
( called for. and certainly premature. II
[ is now hardly a year since that bill was
introduced, and sentiment for exclusion
/ is growing more and more decided every
/ day"
xherIey's Bill Applies.
REPRESENTATIVE SheTley. OF Kentucky,
/ introduced a bill yesterday which, if en-
acted into law. may assist in settling the
JaDanese matter and similar questions.
The measure seeks to give the Federal
! courts jurisdiction over cases where
/ treaty rights are involved. 1t provides
that IF two or more persons conspire to
/ iniure. oppress. threaten, or intimidate
anv person in the free exercise or enjoy
mont of any right secured to him by the
/ Constitution or Bylaws of the United
/ States. or because of his having exer-
/ cised them. they shall be fined not more
than 5000. or imprisoned not more than
ten years"
This Drovision is a modification of the
Revised Statutes relating to conspiracy
against "any citizen" by the substitution
of the words, ANY person. which ex-
tends the protection Of the statute to
/ foreigners living in the United States. II
is asserted that the effect of such a meas
ure would be TO take out of the State
courts many cases involving the rights OF
! foreigners.
Miller Wires Denial.