Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-11-29
FEDERAL INTERFERENCE
WITH CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS

Secretry Metcalf went 10 San
Francisco at the presidents request
to investigate the Japanese trouble
in that town. The San Francisco
board of education made an order
that all Japanese students be de-
barred from the public schools and
received only at separate school
maintained for the Orientals. The
Japanese counsel at San Francisco
protested and the Japanese ambas-
sailors at Washington appealed to
Secretary Root, saying that the
course of the San Francisco author
tiles was a violation of Japan's
treaty rights. Japanese cablegrams
say that great indignation has
been manifested throughout pro-
tested and the Japanese ambassador
at Washington appealed to Secre-
tary Root, saying that the course of
the San Francisco authorities was
violation of Japan's treaty rights.
Japanese cablegrams say that great
indignation has been manifested
throughout Japan and that there is
a growing hostility toward Amer
lea. Secretary Metcalf reports that
the board of education has no au-
thority to make such an order, mas
much as it is in contravcntion of
Japan's treaty rights; and it is
maintained that the state authori-
ties must be controlled in whatever
action they may take by the terms
of the treaty entered into between
this government and foreign ma
tions.
1t would be impossible for the
administration to conceal its anx-
iety to do away with all grounds
for Japanese hostility. Newspaper
dispatches say that the Philippine
Islands make it inadvisablc for the
United States to have any difficulty
with Japan. While the authorities
at Washington are greatly dis
turbed, the newspapers at San
Francesca seem to think that it is a
case of much-a-do about nothing.
The San Francisco Chronicle pre-
sents the San Francisco view in
this way.
A dispatch represents the JAP
anese press and people as exceed
ingly angry at the anti-Japanese
feeling on this coast, and especial
ly at our exclusion of all children
of Oriental parentage from the
schools of this city, except the
special schools designed for theii
accommodation. Very likely there
is much talk. Japan has its IRE.
sponsible sensational press as wei
as this country. The report tina
the Japanese government is taking
the matter up, however, may b
dismissed as all rot. 1t would b
fortunate if it would take it up, fo
4 it would pobably lead to a rationa
discussion of the entire racial ques
ton by cool, level-headed men 0
i both countries. In due time it will
J probably come to that, but probabl'
not quite yet.
AS to the schools, the Japanes
government perfectly understand
Z that the people of this state are no
under the slightest obligation to ia
c themselves to teach Japanese tn
c English language or to admit ORR
: entail pupils at all into our school
Il where their presence may be dis
y tasteful to our own people. In vie,
&c of the fact that we have not in thi
II city sufficient buildings to accom-
y modate our own pupils, the Japs
"a nese government will see that on
:, provision of special schools for tn
20 instruction of Orientals is an act {
ID the most kindly consideration o
{ our part.
TX The Japanese government ais
or knows that, in view of the restri,
10 tons placed on our people in Japs
and its dependencies, it is in no p
III sition to complain if we should col
ut clude to exercise the right whic
Id the Japanese have formally rcco,
,u nized by treaty, to exclude tho
is classes of their people whose pre-
ly ence here is certain to result