The San Francisco call., 1906-12-24

ment to speak at such a meeting
and as the present situation arose
through the act of the Board oi
Education in establishing an Ori-
entail school to which Japanese
were to be segregated, it was un-
derstood that he was to explain
the stand of the administration
in this vital matter.
Governor Pardee had been in
vited to speak at the meeting, but
did not appear.
Part of Schmitz's speech was
devoted to a discussion OF the
problem of Asiatic exclusion from
an economic view point, and then
he craved the indulgence of his
auditors while he made what he
promised was to be q defense OF
himself in the matter of the
Grand Jury investigation.
Il wish" he said, ito refer to
my own case. l wouldn't do SO
if | could get an honest express
sion from the press, but that is
not possible. The present attack
is not made on me because | am
dishonest. | am ready to prove
my innocence at all times and /
have been knocking at the doors
OF Justice in order to get the op-
portunity to show my innocence.
But / find myself against bot
tled-up Judge. In his actions in
refusing to grant me an imme-
date hearing he is taking orders
from members of the Citizens
Alliance which is striving to dis
rupt labor organizations.
"But | say to them, Lay on,
McDuff, and damned be he who
first cries, Hold, enough !"'
"And l want you," cried the
Mayor, turning to the table where
the reporters sat, Il want you to
put this in the papers: That / am
going before Judge Dunno on
next Wednesday morning and
again demand to be tried i'm
mediately.
Though I know him to be a
prejudiced and biased Judge I am
ready and willing to go before
him, and with a fair jury be tried
for the ofenses charged against
me. Now, let us go back to the
Japanese question"
ITO with the Japanese -
shouted a young man in the
crowd. This sally was greeted
with cheers and laughter, and
under cover of the merriment
aroused Schmitz continued with
his address on the exclusion
question.
The meeting was under the auspices
of the japanese and Korean Exclusion
League. and o. A Tveitmoe presided.
Besides Tveitmoe and Mayor Schmitz
the speakers were Walter Macarthur,
editor Of the Coast Seaman's Journal
p II. Mccarthy, president of the State
Building Trades Council: former State
Senator Frank MCGOWAN and William
r. Haggerty, president of the San
Francisco Labor Council and member
OF the Board Of Police Commissioners.
Secretary Victor H Metcalf, who was
sent to San Francisco by President
Roosevelt, was denounced in unrestrict-
ed language in q resolution adopted at
the meeting. Metcalf's report TO the
President on the local situation was de-
clared to be "a misstatement of facts
to be unjust, untrue and misleading" f"
and not TO be worthy of confidence" !"
President Roosevelt Jared little better
in the language of the meeting His
stand was resented" and his sugges-
tion Of infringing on State rights was
hotly condemned.
DO NOT FEAR WAR
The fear of war with Japan was
most remote from the minds of all the
speakers, and utterances of the ability
of the United States to defeat the
Mikados armies if the occasion should
arise awoke loud cheers.
Walton's Pavilion was comfortably
filed at o'clock, and before 2:45, when
Mayor Schmitz and Chairman Tveitmoe
entered the hall, every seat was taken.
The Mayors personal attendants yes
terday were School Director Thomas
6ONle ana superintendent hOncOVieri.
Prominent labor union men and lead
ers in the exclusion movement had
seats on the platform with the speak
ers.
Tveitmoe made/the first address on
the subject. He said that the men and
women of California stood ready at ali
times 10 continue the traditions of their
State and were willing to lay down
their lives that liberty might live.
We bear no animosity toward any
people" he said, but we are ready to
raise our voice in protest in such man.
ner that II will go forth TO effect the
preservation and protection Of future
generations. our children and our chill
dren's children"
Tveitmoe continued to say that the
Oriental invasion which now menaced
this country was not a new question.
Now, he continued. the people of Cali
fornia are standing guard against the
teeming millions of hordes from the
Orient
When once our position is under
stood it will be found that 95 per cent
OF the people in America will be unani-
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