The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-12-19
WITH JAPANESE SCHOOL QUESTION

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| qrom the Japanese Daily New World,
October % 1867
LEGAL PROTEST AND DIPLOMATIC
CONFERENCE
1t is not true Americans, but the i'm
| migrants from Italy and other small
! countries of Europe who are DESTROYS
| of excluding Japanese from California
and other states of the Pacific coast. The
anti-foreign feeling in America originated
! some hundred years ago, when the Eng
! hsh colonsts endeayored to push the
! French and German invaders out of the
! land and the French tried to kick out
| the Irish immigrants coming after them.
Irish and Italians, thus pushed toward
the western part of the United States
! have organized a formidable body with
| the aid OF the Spanish and Portuguese
| and followed the example of their predc-
| cessors in excluding oriental races. They
| succeeded in checking the entrance of
| the Chinese by means of legislation. As
for the Japanese, they thought it too
! difficult to treat them like Chinese, the
| former having become an important ele-
| ment of the international community
| bound by treaty with the United States
| on equal terms. Hence the idea was
/ given up to exclude Japanese by means
! of legislation, and measures were taken
| TO humliate and prosecute them at the
! hands of the authorities
The board of education at the request
| of these people took advantage of the
| letter of the law of the state of Califor-
mia and excluded the Japanese children
| from schools where white children are in
attendance, upon the assumption that
japanese are of the Mongolian race. This
conduct of the authorities is on one
| hand a malicious abuse of the friendly
nation in the orient, and on the other
| hand it Is q manifest violation OF the
| treaty made under the highest authority
of the United States to which the author
| tiles of the state Of California and San
! Francisco are subject. AS for this mali
| cious and violent conduct of the authori-
| ties we must induce our own authorities
| to take every means to secure from thu
| former a proper remedy for what has
been done.
tFrom the Japanese Daily World, October
i &C. 1006)
THE JAPANESE MASS MEETING.
The mass meeting of japanese resi-
dents was nothing but a CONCEALED ex-
preston of wrath against the ultrachau-
vinism of the authorities of San Fran
cisco. Since the earthquake and fire the
Japanese and Korean Exclusion League
has been taking every opportunity of
prosecuting our people. For the past
few months the league did its utmost
to stir up the ignorant closes and young
boys against the Japanese. When night
came these boys have been accustomed
to make their appearance In great num-
bers and In many places In the Japanese
quarter or adjacent to 1t and attack Jap
anese stores or knock down the Japanese
i on the streets who were passing by They
were SO bold as to break into Japanese
stores. even in daylight, and rob mer-
chandise stored there.
But the city authorities never gave
ear to complaints of Japanese, who We're
therefore forced to subject their fate to
the will of the god. This anti-foreign
feeling of the people of California has
led the authorities at last to take meas
ures for humiiating a nation friendly to
America. Japan is a country with which
| the United States of America made n
treaty embodying the terms of the most
favored nation clause But this stipula-
ton of the treaty has been utterly vio-
lated by the hostile and unlawful conduct
of the board of education. Further, the
majority of the people of California seem
to consider this conduct justlfable. The
| Call and the Chronicle, the influential
papers of this city, are endeavoring to
| stir up the people by their vicious state
ments.
What measure shall we take on this
occasion when everything is very un-
| favorable to Japan and Japanese? The
| mass meeting is the best way to decide
what measure we Japanese residents
| shall take against the very barbarous
conduct of the authorities. We are very
| glad to hear that the influential Japan
csc here are now under way to arrange
| the meeting for us.
| (From the Japanese Daily New World,
| October 20. 1906.
We are very sorry to know that Jap
anese children are suddenly excluded
| from the public schools because of race
prejudices and forgetfulness of true
Americanism. 1t is far better to let race
| problems be decided by eminent ethnolo-
| gists rather than by municipal authority
and politicians. If the board of educa-
ton be controlled by the agitation of ig-
| norant laborers rather than by true
| Americanism, then when the Japanese
| Exclusion League ask them to exclude
Japanese children permanently from the
| public school they will do it.
| (From the japanese American, October
| g. 1867
| All the political parties in California
| have resolved that the Japanese should
! be excluded. and the candidates for the
| coming election show strenuous efforts
| in favor of exclusion of Japanese. 1t
would seem that the popular opinion
| among the people in California is in IA
| vor of exclusion of japanese. But 1t IS
| not so in its true sense.
| On August Representative Hayes con-
| suited the members of the Fruit Growers
| Association, inducing them to hire white
| laborers for picking fruit instead of the
| Japanese. He said white laborers would
| gladly accept the position of the Japan
| ese. But the members discredited the
| suggestion, stating that the exclusion of
| the japanese means the failure of the
| fruit industry. 1t was further said that
| there are great difficulties in employing
| white laborers. for they are all under
| the influence of unionism, which is detri-
| mental to the developments of the ag-
| riculture and fruit industry. The fact is,
| the term Japanese exclusion has be-
/ come a tool in the hands of INSCRIPTIONS
| politicians.
| We must take these facts into consid-
| Grafton and try not to provoke the faith
| fui employer of Japanese. We must be
faithful and earnest also. It is our duty
to be proud of being efficient laborers
and show them the spirit of Japanese.
! We have no hesitation in saying that the
exclusion of Japanese is detrimental to
| the development of the agriculture and
| industry in California. Don't you see
the reason why the people in San Jose
| and Saratoga are not In favor of the ex-
| clusion of Japanese? 1t can be plainly
| seen that the people foresee that the ex-
| clusion of Japanese is impossible. Tn
der these circumstances We desire to
| bring your attention to these facts and
| let the people realize that We are earnest
/ and faithful workers.
| fSan Francisco Call, November IS 1906
| THE JAPANESE DIPLOMATIC GAME.
The tone of the person in authority
! lecturng an unruly child as to what is
! good for 1t characterizes the pronounce
! ments of the eastern press in relation to
| the trea tment of the japanese by San
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