The San Francisco call., 1906-12-24

CHEAP LABOR PROBLEM
Tveitmoe summarized three funda-
mental objections against Asiatic i'm
migration. First, the Japanese and
Chinese is a cheaper man, being able
to exist on 10 cents a day and there
fore having ten chances of livelihood
TO the Americans one. Second, Orient
ais are numerically stronger than the
white races. comprising two-thirds of
the population of the world. Third,
Mon ngolians believe they have a civil
ization superior to that of the white
races and they do not desire to be made
Americans.
"A Chinese or Japanese is Chinese
or Japanese always. You could not
make a citizen out OF him If you swore
him on a stack of Bibles as high as the
Washington monument. He would al
ways turn his gun against the white
man, for he believes his Mikado to be
god and would be willing to die for
him if he had a thousand lives" in
sisted the chairman. He then spoke of
the dangers of miscegenation.
Walter Macarthur delivered a strong
address. In part he said:
1T has been contended that there is
no need for excitement, no need for
mass meetings. no need for an indig-
nant protest against the action of the
President in this matter. / admire the
equanimnity that inspires those senti-
ments. but at the same time / must de-
clare that If there were a State that
would not protest in the most emphatic
terms at its command against the as
sumption of the President over the SOW
ereignity of the commonwealth that
State would deserve all the contempt
which Roosevelt expressed for Califor-
MIA and merit all the threats the Presi-
dent made.
WOULD RETURN FUND.
"At the outset of his lecture Roose-
Welt recalled that Japan contributed
$780, 900 toward the relief of San Fran
cisco. I do not think that the Japanese
themselves would have set forth that
argument in their own behalf. 1t
comes in bad grace for Roosevelt to
put forward the argument that because
Japan contributed 100000 California
should put aside its rights of self-pro-
lection. 1 say-and I do not say 1T TO
the Japanese-that If Japan wants its
100000 back it can have it with in
terest-I say that to President Roose
velt-and when / say ii 1 want to add
that we Will not give them the public
schools and our little boys and girls.
This is a movement which may have
started with the laboring people, be-
cause It is the laborer who always first
classes The whole people, without re-
spect to class. politics or religion, are
united that California shall reserve and
maintain her right to run her schools
in her own way.
There will be no war; we are actu-
ated, to preserve peace-peace and
honor, and we are pledged. to do every
ization of the Government of Japan
and the United States that the exclu-
sion of the Mongolians is the only way
to preserve peace on this continent"
Macarthur then took up the charges
made in Metcalf's report that there was
violence against the Japanese in this
city. He declared that there were no
disturbances and asked the audience if
there had been anything of that kind.
'Nor' replied a voice
VANITY OF oRIENTALs
But" the speaker continued, ''if the
President maintains his present atti-
tude of catering and pandering to the
vanity of the Asiatics and the Asiatic
parades his vanity beyond the patience
of the whites there will be violence.
Metcalf's report is a fgment of the
imagination, nlalicfously devised and
contracted to put California in a false
position. If the President shakes his
big stick at us instead of at Japan he
he is attacking all the States"
Macarthur was loudly cheered by the
audience when he finished his remarks.
Senator Frank MCGOWAN was then in
troduced. MCGOWAN opened his address
with review of the historical records
of invasions OF civilized nations by in
ferior races. He contended that the
naturalization Of the Japanese was i'm
possible, since that race did not have
a CT Do1a a ffrfh in,
Anericansz- He made a strong appeal
to preserve the American public schools
from Asiatics.
THE sacred confines Of the public
school, he said, while God gives us
right, shall never be contaminated"
He then went into the labor side of
the question. characterizing the Japan
ese as cheap labor and nasty in.
morals" There was a great danger, he
thought, of the Japanese undermining
the position of the American working
man.
MCCARTHY SCENTS CONSPIRACY
p H. Mccarthy addressed himself to
a consideration of the Japanese prob
lem as ii affected the workingman. He
declared that Roosevelt was involved
in a gigantic conspiracy to break down
organized labor.
The fight from Washington to San
FRANCISCO is nght against the labor
movement" said Mccarthy, but 1 want
to serve notice on Mr.. Teddy Roosevelt,
President of these United States of
ours, that San Francisco is to be re-
built and the work is to be done by
union labor"
William r. Haggerty, president of
the Labor Council, discussed conditions
in the Hawaiian Islands, where there is
a great deal of Japanese labor. He
spoke of the low moral standard of
the brown workmen and the slavish
position held by the women of the
race. Haggerty predicted the political
downfall of Roosevelt owing to his
position on the Japanese question.
Before Mayor Schmitz, the last
speaker. was introduced, Secretary A
E. Yoell of the Japanese and Korean
Exclusion League read the two resolu-
tions introduced at the meeting. The
resolutions were adopted with a rous-
ing vote The vote was great in con-
trast to the volume of the greeting ex-
tended Schmitz.
Tveitmoe had an extended speech of
praise for the introduction of Schmitz
"a speech which dwelt almost entirely
with the part played by the Mayor dur
ing the April disaster