The San Francisco call., 1906-11-30
JAPANESE RAGE
PROBLEM FULL
OF PORTENT
President Must Make Good
His Word to Stop Exclu-
sion of School Children
CONFLICT w ITH THIS
STATE WILL RESULT
Learns That All of Pacific
Slope Is Opposed to the
Mingling Of Student


WASHINGTON, Nov. 2s.-Loomin
greater than ever, the Japanese queS.
ton oyershadoys most of the other
problems before washington. This is
saying much at time when race ques-
tions have excited the different nation
alities of the American people to the
verge of violence ard when the pursuit
of trusts and the hunting down ~ err
ing milIionaires have reached a stage
when the curtain can be expected any
dous human interest.
In the Japanese question that has
been raised by the San Francisco schoo
authorities the President has before
him a race problem quite as important
as that which has been famed by SEN
ator Tillman and others into a white
heat over the relations between the
white and the black. He has before
him for solution ar international mat
ter which reaches round the world,
which touches Iations of the
United states wit apsn AMI win less
marked degAsse afrects the trade with
Korea and Manchuria and incidentally
may in time reach the peaceful commu-
mites of interest in the Pacific sur
rounding the Hawaiian Islands and the
Philippine Islands.
Coming near home, it involves in con-
crete form the question OF the power
of the Federal Government to step In
and regulate the affairs of a State
when the manner in which the affairs
of the State are administered conflicts
ment or the treaty rights of friendly
foreign power
Since the return of President Roose-
veIt from Panama the Japanese dis
pute, which was perplexing before, has
become acute. No one would be sur
prised to see Mr.. Roosevelt bring the
whole matter to the attention of Con-
gress at an early day. The position
of the case today is that the Japanese
have protested to this country as a
Federal Government against the prac-
tice of the state of California in re-
fusing the Japanese access to the pub
lie schools. The President has prom
ised them redress, and Secretary Root
has made the point that under the
treaty of 1894 the Japanese have the
same rights in the public schools of
California as the children of the Cali
fornians have He has also sent a
cable message to Toxic, promising
them the treatment accorded the people
of the most friendly European anton.
II the contention of Secretary Root
ernment and of Congress and be sus-
tanned by the courts, the country is on
the verge of a new departure in Ameri-
can diplomacy, and is about, in the
interests Of the Japanese, to reverse
the doctrine of century of diplomacy.
In other words, rights which the States
have successfully asserted are to be
swept aside and the Federal Govern
ment is to become supreme even to the
question of regulation by school boards
and other local bodies.
Secretary Metcalf brought back from
California with him statements show
ing that the feeling in California is
more antagonistic to the Japanese than
the Chinese. He also laid information
before the President showing that he
had made no headway whatever in his
efforts to induce the local State au-
thorities to relent and admit the Jap
anese adults to the public schools.
President Roosevelt is very much IN
earnest in his efforts to have the jap
anese given the right to have adult
Japanese admitted to the public
schools. and he has not been in any
sense sweryed by the reports made TO
him by Metcalf. He will have a case
taken to the Supreme Court of the
United States If necessary and is con-
vinced that the higher court will re-
fuse to sustain the attitude OF the au-
thorities in California.
only Yesterday the President heard
fror, Senator Fulton of Oregon regard
Inc his view. This was that the en-
fire white population of the Pacific
Slone is quite as much determined to
.xclude the Japanese adults and chill
dran from the schools of the white
ct,ildren as were the citizens of Cali
| fornia and that an attempt on the part
~ fhe washington government to in
terfere would be regarded as very
serious attempt to infringe upon State
| rights.