The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-12-12
THE GARDEN ISLAND
ON THE JAP ANESE
DOES NOT AGREE WITH ROOsE-
WELT IN HIS RECOMMENDA-
TION OF JAP CITIZENSHIP.

The Garden Island publishes the fol-
lowing regarding the Presidents mes
sage and his utterances on the Jap
anese question:
The paragraph in the Presidents
message to Congress dealing with the
segregation of japanese school chill
rem in San Francisco is of peculiar in
terest to the residents of Hawaii, be-
cause the question which gave rise to
action of the California educators are
and for many years have been live
ones to the people of this Territory.
There is no doubt in unbiased minds
about the justice of giving the Japan
csc children within the United states
an equal opportunity of being educated
to the one afforded to the children Of
the balance of the communities. In
localities where they are but few this
can, Of course, be affected only by Civ
ing them admission to the schools
where the other children receive their
education.
When it comes to communities where
they are numerous, the question of CO.
education takes on another aspect that
is hardly appreciated by the people Of
the East who have had little or no
opportunity to get acquainted with the
difficulties arising from such an ar
rangement.
Not only the language. but the mind
of the Oriental races are built on so
entirely different lines from the one
of the average American child that 1t
takes not only a lot of time but all
the ingenuity of a capable teacher to
romould them. This can only be done
! at the expense of the balance of the
pupils whose education will be neglect
! ed. or at best retarded. This circum-
stance has been obvious to all par
ents in Hawaii for many years, and
hence the efforts of all who can a1oro
it to send their children off to some
school where such conditions do not
I prevail.
The moral ideas of the race are also
in many instances the reverse of those
/ that American parents and teachers
are trying to implant in the children
| Although police regulations may en-
force certain customs, the ideas I'M
derlying such regulation are not alb
sorbed by the Japanese, and acts
which to them seem but natural and
decent are committed which begin with
shocking and ends with perverting the
mind of the American child Here Is
i the second reason why so many of the
parents in Hawaii send their children
to the mainland to receive their scnooi'
ing.
These reasons have evidently forced
themselves upon the San francisco
IBoard of Education now that the Jap
anese have become so numerous tina
the influence has commenced to be felt
and hence its action.
1T is easy to conceive the difficulty
for the Eastern mind to appreciate thu
situation, but the South with the same
problem, only with the difficulty o
language eliminated, will readily un
derstand the position taken by tn
Californians.
The fact that President Roosevelt
recommends Congress to pass laws Civ
ing him power to supersede State au
thority IN the treatment of questions o
an international character shows tina
he realizes that he is without sucl
power, and his threat to use civil o
military power to enforce his vii
therefore comes as a wave of hot ali
disagreeable but not necessarily ami
bila ting