Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-13
FEELING IS GROWING.
The Japanese May Be Excluded from
 the Country.

Washington, D. C., Nov 13.--Agita- ton of the Japanese school question Is approaching the acute stage aud is rapidly crystalizlng Into sentiment in P1cffic -cuast and westerf states, not only against the admission of Japanese children into the schools with American children, but also against their admission into our borders. Some even go as far as to say openly that no distinction should be made between the Chinese and the Japanese. so far as the question of allowing them to enter this coun- try is concerned. and they contend that between the two races the Chinese are vastly more to be desired for many reasons.
 As a result of investigations re- gently made by the bureau of labor into the public school question of Hawaii, where at present the Asiatic pupils largely outnumber those of any other race, the bureau is uncer- tain, whether under existing circum- stances. the final result in the schools Oriental or the Orientalizing of the
 
 American schools.
 The swamping of the American schools with Orientals, 1t is believed, will not be compatible with the American school system. on account of the fact that the latter outnumber all other nations combined. The ex- elusive use of the English language in the schools. where Japanese chill dren largely predominate. is not thought to be possible. The result. 1t is believed, will be found in the same process of displacement that has been shown in wage-earning and mercantile pursuits. and that white pupils will be crowded out of the schools established for their especial benefit.
 The American pupil brought up among children of all races and at tending school in a district where majority of his schoolmates are Japanese. never acquires a perfect mastery of his own language and speaks pigeon English" often with a foreign accent. His progress in all studies has to be regulated by the progress of classes composed in great part of young people whose | knowledge of English is imperfect at best. In other ways. too. he Is | at disadvantage. Tn personal hab- | It's and customs and social and ethical | Ideas he is strongly inclined to grow | much like those with whom he is | thrown in school life.
 L. t4sst h- tween the situation in Hawaii in this respect and that in an American city having a large foreign school Most European immi- | grants have q certain basis of Christi an culture. taken as an element of which is a powerful aid | In assimilation. and they are for the most part permanent settlers. and | ambitious to acquire wealth and posi- ton. Tn Hawaii the material to De is much more intrsrt- able. and the assimilative forces are far weaker than upon the mainland.
 The chief dancer of the situation lies in the possibility that a situa- Hon vill be created where American ration will become impossible the practical exclusion of American pupils from the schools such exclusion would disinclIne American parents 10 remain in the especially in isolated ioczli- lies
 There is s manifest tendency. kow rezlized it fs hard to say ss yet for Asi.tic prpirs to dispisce American pupiIs Ia the pubiic shools Ia sc1efhing nke the sane way that | heir pareots dispI>os vhife vorkers | |a many occupat1ona