Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-11-22
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
JAPs IN SCHOOLS.

We assure President Roosevelt,
Secretary Root, and Secretary Met
calf that 1t is immaterial to the
people of California what construc-
tion may be put on treaties and
laws, in SO far as they affect the
right to enter the public schools of
this state. The people of California
will never permit children of
Asiatic descent to sit at the same
desks and occupy the same rooms
with their white children. The
government of the United States is
powerful, but it is not powerful
enough for that. If 1t should at
tempt to force into the public schools
of California the children of alien,
semi-servile, and pagan races, it
may perhaps do SO under the federal
law, for the citizens of this state
are law-abiding. But the attempt
viii only result in the school houses
being turned over to the Chinese,
Japanese, Ceylonese, Filipino and
Lascar proteges. OF the federal gov
ernment. And the white men and
white women of California Will
educate their children in schools of
their own. The Argonau.
There you have sthc old states
rights problem, complicated with
treaty, bobbing UP again. 1t will
probably never be. eliminated from
our governmental affairs until the
present centraiiziug tendencies Gull
inmate in a remodeling of the con-
situation, so as to deprive the
states Of all pretensr of self gov
ernment, aside from that secured
through representation in the ma
tional government; when he legis-
lators will perform functions similar
in character to those new exercised
by county commissioners.
The interesting phase of these
conflicts between state and INA
tional authority is that the states
not directly Involved except those
of the south, with whom the prin-
ciple of states rights is sacred
heritage, the justice of which has
been demonstrated and emphasized
by long experience always take
sides with the national administra-
tion against the individual state.
This is an exhibition of provincial
ism, one might say provincial igno-
rance, that amounts to a grave,
threatening evil, when considered
in connection with the general ten
dency for forty years past towards
Capitalization of government.
This country is SO large; it's inter
es.s SO diversified, in many in
stances antagonistic; the senti-
ments and customs of it's people so
different in widely separated sec
tions, that it would mean, inev-
itably, national suicide; to permit
New England, to make the illustra-
tion strong and clear, to have any
voice whatever in the regulation of
local affairs in California or the
gulf states.
The trouble over the refusal of
California to admit Mongolians to
the public schools is case direct
to the point. In the first place,
rhe authorities at Washington had
no right to incorporate such a
clause in treaty, except in rela-
tion to national schools. AS to the
unwisdon of the provision, no one
who has any knowledge of race
pejudice could entertain a moments
doubt. This fact has finally pene-
trated through the dense under
standing of the federal government;
for it has been decided that no
more Japs shall enter West Point
or Annapolis academies.
i was piece of impertinence on
the part of the president to send
a cabinet officer to San Francisco
to interfere in this purely local is
sue. He will surely be known in
history as Buttinski Roosevelt, the
greatest spectacular fakir of this
age.