The new age., 1906-12-22

Illustrated by an epitome of their ar
| a 9uineht upon the public school ques-
elon, en1I Inat argument practically is as
| IolioWs The public schols of California
ai aLo State and not a Federal institu-
srp ION. Ihe state has the power to abol-
| araI 'i1ose @ schools entirely, and the Fed
9n di government would have no right
ottIt - ut It's voice in protest Upon the
other hand, the state may extend the
| privileges of its schools to aliens upon
snd sun 4 terms as it. the state, may elect,
anI i lne Federal government has no
| rlsht TO question its action in this re-
gard Primarily and essentially the
punnc schools are designed for the edu-
| cation of the citizens of the state The
state is interested in the education of
| us own citizens alone 1t would not
ior iDr+ a moment maintain this expensive
| IuStitutlon to educate foreigners and
aliens who would carry to their coun-
tries the fruits of such education There
Iore: II 1t should be held that there was
Dc discrimination operating in violation
VI the treaty with Japan in the states
treatment OF japanese children, or even
Il new treaty with Japan should be
~ afaIned I which would contain on behalf
o1 japanese subjects the moSt-faVored-
hatloh clause, this could and would be
met Dy the state, which would then ex-
ciude from the use of it's public schools
ana limit the rights of free education to
children of it's own citizens, for whom
Ihe system is primarily designed and
maintained, and if the state should do
this the Federal government could not
complain, since no treaty right could be |
violated when the children of Japanese |
were treated precisely as the children |
OF all foreign nations.
The feeling in the state is further |
intensified especially in labor circles |
by the report on the conditions in the
1aWallan islands as contained in Bull |
letln 66 OF the Bureau of Labor De- |
partment of Commerce and Labor. The |
claim IS made that white labor has been |
almost entirely driven from the Ha-
Wallan islands. and that the Japanese |
are gradually forcing even the small |
white traders out of business.
the state, on the other hand, are strong
~ opposed to the action of the San
francisco board of education. Japan
ese are admitted to the University of |
California, an institution maintained |
and supported by the state. They are
also admitted to, and gladly welcomed
at, Stanford University. San Francisco,
so lar as known, is the only city which
has Disseminated against Japanese chill
dren. l talked with number of promi-
nent labor men, and they all said that |
they had no objection to Japanese chill |
dren attending the primary grades; that
they wanted Japanese children now in
school privileges as children of other
nations, but that they were unalterably
opposed to Japanese young men attend
ing the primary grades.
tending the primary grades could very
readily be met by a simple rule limit
ing the ages of all children attending
those grades All of the teachers with
whom l talked while in San Francisco
spoke in the highest terms of the Jap
anese children, saying that they were
among the very best of their pupils,
cleanlv in their persons, well behaved,
and remarkably bright
'grhe board of education of San Fran
cisco declined to rescind it's resolution
of October IL, claiming that, having es-
tablished separate school for Chinese,
Japanese and Corean children, the pro-
visions of section 1862 of the political ,
code became mandatory.
Res3rn of Japanese attending public
schools in San Francisco as mentioned {
in the foregoing comm munication:
Number of pupils %
Number of schools they attended % ,
Y L her of n1InilS at