The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-26
JAPAN ENTERS her PROTEST
AGAINST EXCLUSION or JAP
CHILDREN FROM SCHOOLS.

San FrancIscO's Action Regarded In wash
. IngtOn as violation Of Treaty Rights.
hut Maybe the Government Can't Help
It-The administrator 10 worried.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.-The exclusion Of
Japanese children from the schools Of San
Francisco has become al International
affair Of serious importance and the ques-
ton Is worrying the Administration con-
siderably. Viscount Aoki, the Japanese
Ambassador, to-day informed Secretary
OF State Root that the Japanese Government
desired that the treaty rights Of the Japa-
nose in the United States be not infringed
upon. This treaty gives citizens and sub
jeots OF the japanese Empire all Of the rights
and privileges enjoyed by alive and
citizens OF this country, and it now seems
certain that in the exclusion OF the Japanese
children from the schools Of San Francisco
there has been a serious breach OF the
provisions Of the treaty OF and
amity between the United States n Japan
which was drawn in 1894.
The Administration finds itself in a pecu-
liarly difficult position, although the case
10 not at all unprecedented. A parallel is
found in the killing Of Italians in Louisiana
in 1880, when Chief Of Police Hennessey OF
New Orleans wa killed by members OF the
Italian Malta. The men were later ac-
Quilted by the courts, but were lynched by
angered citizens. Italy protested and de-
manded satisfaction, but all that the Ad-
ministration in Washington could do was
to call upon the Governor OF Louisiana to
take action. The feeling was 30 strong in
that State that no jury could be found to
try the persons implicated in the killing.
1t was purely a matter for the State officials,
and the Government in Washington was
powerless. Italy was so informed, but was
not satisfied, and the withdrawal OF the
italian Minister resulted. The United
States finally paid an indemnity to the
families Of the dead Italians, although
this has never been recognized by Italy
as a satisfactory settlement.
The case of the exclusion Of Japanese
children from California schools is identical.
The Government in Washington can do
nothing further than to call to the attention
Of the authorities in San Francisco the
serious situation which has been brought
about and to ask that they take some
measures to remedy conditions.
There is no concealment in Washington
Of the fact that an anti-American senti-
ment IL rapidly growing in Japan. At the
Japanese Embassy il is said that the people
Of Japan do not understand that the dis
elimination against Japanese is confined
To only one locality in the United States.
There ha We been numerous other incidents
TO which might be attributed the growth
of the feeling against America in Japan 4,
but they are all insignificant when COM
pared with the exclusion OF the children
from the schools. This the Japa nese re-
sent more than anything else. They are
essentially a child loving race and dis
elimination against the japanese children
will find a ready and powerful objection.
The protest of the Ambassador to Secre-
tary Root to-day was more or less informal
but nevertheless it brings the matter up
in such a way that something must be done.
The Ambassador told Mr.. Root that his
people at home would misunderstood the
situation. and he spoke ofthe feeling already
aroused. Through adv ices from Am
bassador Luke f. Wright in Toxic, Mr.. Root
already knows Of the conditions in Japan
and I've is worried about them.
The State Department has Informally
requested of Japan that she punish japanese
fishermen who escaped from the American
authorities of st. Paul's Island, Alaska,
after their raid upon the seal rookeries
some weeks ago. The Department re-
CARDS the action Of the Japanese fishermen
not only az a violation Of treaty rights
but as en- invasion of American territory.
Those Japs who were captured will be
punished in American courts. il convicted.
No protest has been nae on the part of
Japan to this Government because Of the
killing Of her subjects in this case, and
none is expected.