Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-28
/ OUTSIDE POINT OF VIEW

! Some Of US with little or no sympa.
thy for the Californians in their anti
Chinese, anti-Japanese sentiment, new.
ertheless are inclined to criticise the
language OF President Roosevelt con
/ corning the ninety-three Japan.
ese school children In Sa1
Francisco. While but for few o,
us are democrats, imbued with state
rights doctrines. just the same we fee
! that when it comes to the running OF
our public schools, no president Of the
United States is called upon to inter-
fere. If we, the citizens of the United
\ States see fit to say black children
| SHAH attend school in one place, yellow
ones in another, red ones in another
and white children in still another
building: somehow 1t seems to US its
a right we have, whether we happen
to live in South Carolina, Indian Ter
ritory, California or Iowa.
This disturbing question opens up
the whole public school discussion.
While our Catholic and Lutheran
"bretherin' feel it duty to keep up
their parochial schools, while our Jew
ish friends feel aggrieved that there is
SO much Christmas in public schools
these days, and while touching religious
we can differ to the point Of
heated discussions, when it comes to
the question of our children away for
many hours in the day from parental
control, being thrown in contact with
children whose parents belong to the
colored races, somehow there is an
oc,ts NJ, nnft 01
clamation can put down, no treaty
rights can change. All know that
such thing as social recognition is
impossible with the present state of
feeling in this country. Such children
might be play fellows in the school
house yards for series of years, but
in after life there can be no association
such as exists between the people of
the same color.
1t needed but this unwise and impo-
litic act of the Californians to acceler-
ate the downward tendency San Fran
cisco seems to possess. Cursed by la
Dor unions to the point of retarding
the rebuilding of, their city, disgraced
as they are by the revelations Of the
now going on trial Of Boss Ruef AMI
Mayor Schmitz, threatened with a
Japanese boycott Of trade that will be
felt all over the country and especial
ly in the port Of San Francisco, men
of that city, whose judgment seems to
be failing, allowed this affair Of the
schooling Of .ninety-three chill
dren to become national one
and whatever is the out
come, certain and sure to injure San
Francisco. Jesse James and the Young
years behind her sister states by their
buyanceage. The south, with its hat
red for the negro. kept away northern
capital and northern people. And so
blindly is California repeating history.
This episode of the Japanese school
children, is far more harmful to the in
terests of California than it's earth
quake.
And here is a peculiar phase of the
public mind these days. With all of our
hero worship for Roosevelt, he is fast
becoming the most criticized of our
public men. So sure are we that he is
honest in all of his actions and words,
that our admiration Of the man is I'M
impaired. When President Roosevelt
mentioned that he would employ all Of
the force he could legally, to have nine
ty-three Japanese school children at
tend the public schools of San Francis
co, we felt he had Stopped over" We
knew and he knew that United States
troops only go into California in times
of peace on the call of the governor.
We know that Roosevelt has no power
to enforce treaty with foreign ma
ton, that any way, shape or fashion
affects the rights of t.le lowliest of
American citizens And yet we don't
"lay it UP" against Teddy. We are
having in this country today a presi-
dent that has offered to congress more
messages concerning ali manner OF
things than any Of his predecessors.
Every day "the schoolmaster is
abroad" where Roosevelt takes a walk