The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-05
Said that immigrants Landing
at Island are Japan's Pick
ed Soldiers.
SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE
PEOPLE OF CALIFORNIA INSIST
ON THEIR RIGHT AS SOVER-
EIGN STATE TO DEAL WITH THE
COLOR QUESTION:.
Publishers Press.1


San Francisco. Dec. 4-Mu,--ilte
| est is manifested in dispatches from
| Honolulu to the effect that Japanese
| immigrants arriving there of late and
| those who have passports to land in
the near future are picked men of mil
| itary experience.
| In this connection it is stated by the
agent at Honolulu of Saler & Frazer
/ representing the Amalgamated Ameri-
can and British shipping firms in Yo-
kohama, Japan, that there are 100000
Japanese in Japan ready to locate in
Hawaii because the laboring classes
throughout the interior portions OF
Japan are beginning to hear of the op-
portunities they are told exist in Ha-
wall, and are showing a desire to mi
CRATE there.
These dispatches are readily asso-
ciated with the agitation here over
the exclusion of Japanese. as well as
Chinese, negroes and Indians from
public schools attended by white chill
dren, a separate school being provid-
ed out of the public school funds to
which Asiatics, negroes and Indians
have free access.
The feeling in San Francisco is
high. The city and parts of the state
are openly. bitterly and resentfully
opposed to the administration stand
in regard to the school question III
San Francisco. The SO orientals who
under the old state law, are placed by
themselves in the oriental school and
safeguarded from the remainder OF
the public school children of this city
may prove the cause of one of the
most serious international compiled
tions ever faced by the United States
and which may cost her dearly il the
views of the Californians are true.
The people of San Francisco, educa-
tors, officials, politicians and thinkers
declare that Japan is not at all inter
ested in the question of the SO Segre-
gated orientals, but that the laps are
seeking to find cause for quarrei
with the United States and have chos-
en- the San Francisco school situation
as the bone over which to pick quar-
rel and start war.
1t is openly stated that the Jap be-
Iieves the quicker he strikes at the
United States the better, and that he
is seeking over a trivial question to
start a war to decide which national
shall be master of the Pacific.
IF California is to remain one OF
the United States" declared the COM
missioner of labor for California,
then it must stop invasion and settle
the question. The Japanese are
swarming into California at the rate
Of over 900 month, more arrogant
more chesty than any other people
They do not demand equality. They
want an acknowledgement of their
superiority"
California is rebellious, if not in
state of rebellion. It wants no war
with the rest of the United States,
but demands friendly fight in the
supreme court to decide whether or
not California shall have the right to
rule itself in local matters and handle
the color question in it's own way.
Neither does California seek a war
with Japan.
THE school board of San Francisco
never will change it's attitude on the
school question" declared the super
intendent of schools.