Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-06

the SUBJECT or much discussion by the capl-
net. The minister of war declared that
the safety of the country depended on the
execution of his plans, the sole object of
which was to insure peace by making Japan
too formidable for any one to attack her
The other ministers were not disposed to
accept that view, but finally yielded.
When the new program is carried out
Japan will be able to place army of
three-quarters of million men in the field
California Press Defiant.
SAN FRANCISCO, December Gall the
newspapers in the state that have dis
cussed the Presidents message edtorially
today express themselves in vigorous dis
approval of the stand taken with regard
to the Japanese:
The Sacramento Union says: eff Presi-
dent Roosevelt had taken sober second
thought he would have remembered that
the day of enforcing upon a people that
which their judgment and their taste have
rejected has long since passed. Not even
the big stick is big enough to compel the
people of California to do a thing which
they have fixed determination not to do.
The San Jose Mercury Representative
E. F. Hayes paper says: when he de-
clares that the white school children of
this state must share the class room with
the brown children of another and differ
ent race he is either mistaken in his est-
utterly misinformed or uniformed of the
reasons why we object to the conversion
of the state into dumping ground for the
yellow hordes of the orient"
The Bakersfield Californian observes:
Mr.. Roosevelt, you do not understand the
situation and we fear that you too
stubborn to be open to conviction now that
you have formed your opinion. You are
unfair to your countrymen by giving no
place in your message for an expression Of
their views. You place too high an appre-
citation on the worth of Japan, and by de-
manding equal rights for her unlimited i'm
migrants to our shores you in a manner
lower the dignity of your own country
men,"
Sacramento Bee: "Tut-tut Mr. Presi-
dent are we to understand that you in
tend to try to force the Japanese into
our public schools at the point of the
bayonet? One great fault with Theodore
Roosevelt is that he permits his language
to become exceedingly strenuous and car
like when there is no necessity. He did
that in his message of December 6,
1901, declaring what would be done with
the Central and South American republics
If they did not pay their debts. AS he
proposition let us hope that he will also
soon see the japanese invasion of our COM
mon schools in its proper light"
San Bernardino Sum- The President has
a. wrong premise at the foundation Of his
argument when he suggests the assimila-
ton of the Japs If Californians are most
pronounced in these opinions it is because
they know the Japs better than do the
citizens Of other states"
Eureka Times: Surely the language
seems too strong for the occasion. The
people of the south segregate the negroes
and escape such eXcoriation, and certainly
San Franciscans should have the same
rights
Races Won't Mix, Says Mead.
SEATTLE, Wash, December 6.-Gov.
Mead has come out in emphatic language
as being opposed to the Presidents recon-
mendation that an act be passed specifcal-
ly providing for the naturalization of the
Japanese.
II am unalterably opposed to such a
course" said the governor yesterday.
Naturalization Of the Japanese would tend
to degrade the American workman. The
sacred rights Of American citizenship, &C
quired as it was by the blood Of our fore
to another, and especially to foreigners Of
countries Of the orient whose teeming mil
lions could be poured in upon our shores
should we throw down the bars to them.
The two races will not assimilate. China
is laughing in her sleeve. Should Japan
succeed in obtaining citizenship rights,
China would come to the front at once with
a similar demand.
1--WE cannot extend our citizenship rights
to one Asiatic country without doing the
same to the other. have great admira-
ton for the President, but I believe he is
wrong In this matter. The Japanese are
poorly fitted as American citizens. I have