The La Jara chronicle. (La Jara, Conejos County, Colo.) 1896-19??, 1906-12-21
METcALF'S REPORT.
Secretary Describes Japanese Troubl'
in San Francisco.

Washington.-In his report to the
President on the Japanese complaints
in San Francisco Secretary Metcalf
says:
at seems that for several years the
Board of Education of San Francisco
had been considering the ACCESSIBILITY
of establishing separate schools for
Chinese, Japanese and Korean children
and May G, 1905, passed a resolution
declaring its purpose to do this.
October 18th the board passed the
following resolution:
Resolved. That in accordance with
Article X, Section 1862, of the school
law of California, principals are
hereby directed to send all Chinese,
Japanese or Korean children to the
Oriental public school situated on the
south side of Clay street between Pow
ell and Mason streets. on and after
Monday, October Is, 1906.
The action of the board in tho
passage of the resolution of May 6,
1905, and October IL, 1906. was I'M
doubtedly largely influenced by the
activity of the Japanese and Korean
Exclusion League, an organization
formed for the purpose of securing the
enactment by the Congress of the
United States of law extending the
provisions of the existing Chinese cX.
clusion act SO as to exclude japanese
and Koreans.
THE Oriental school. the school set
apart for the Chinese. Japanese and
Korean children, is in the burned sec.
ton. There is only one Japanese stu.
dent attending this school at the pres
ent time, and there are no japanese
children attending any of the other
school.
Il found the sentiment in the state
very strongly against Japanese young
men attending the primary grades.
The press of San Francisco pretty
generally upholds the action of the
Board If Education.
MANY Of the foremost educators in
the state, on the other hand, are
strongly opposed to the action of the
San Francisco Board of Education,
Japanese are admitted to the Univers,
ity of California, an institution main.
tanned and supported by the state.
They are also admitted to and gladly
| welcomed at Stanford University.
Mr.. Metcalf here gives details of the
japanese restaurant and of nu-
merous assaults upon Japanese in the
| streets, including scientists sent there
by the Mikado, merchants and others,
and says:
Il impressed very strongly upon the
| acting mayor of the city, as also upon
the chief of police, the gravity of the
; situation, and told them that as Off.
/ GERS charged with the enforcement OF
the law and the protection of prop.
erty and person you looked to them to
see that all japanese subjects resident
| in San Francisco We're afforded the
| full protection guaranteed to them by
our treaty with Japan. also Informed
them that if the LEGAL authorities were
! not able to cope with the situation or
| If they were negligent or derelict in
the performance of their duty, then the
entire power of the federal govern
ment within the limits of the constitu
tion would be used and used promptly
and vigorously to enforce observance
| of treaties which. under the constitu
ton. are the supreme law of the land
and to secure fit and proper treatment
for the people of great and friendly
power while within the territory of the
| United States.