The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-25
.RESOL UT|0NS At
FRISCO MEETING
Indignation Is Expressed
There Over the Action Ia
ken by the President.
A REPLY is FORMULATED
MAYOR scHMiTz AND OTHERS DE.
NOUNcE METcALF'S REPORT ON
JAPANESE oUEsTIoN-AssER
STATE RIGHTS.
A REPLY Is FORMULATED
Publishers Press.1

San Francisco, Dec. %. - Resolu-
lions denouncing President RooseveIt's
message to congress on the Japanese
situation in San FRANCISCO, resenting
his interference in the domestic affairs
OF the state, expressing want of conf
denec in Secretary Metcalf and declar-
ing that his report to the president on
the Japanese school question is tut
terly unworthy of credence in any pas
t1cular, and containing numerous
misstatements and Misrepresentation
obviously one sided and grossly exag-
gerated," was adopted at q mass meet
ing held at Walton's pavilion under the
auspices of the Japanese and Korean
exclusion league. About $500 people
were in attendance. Among the speak
ers who discussed the situation were
Mayor Schmitz, Walter Macarthur,
editor of the Coast Seamen's Journal,
and other prominent labor leaders.
Mayor Schmitz said that he was
willing to lay down his life by the
side of his fellow men in fighting the
Japanese hordes." If naturalized as
proposed by President Roosevelt, he
said the Japanese would come to Cali
fornia in such numbers that they
would not only soon control Offices by
their votes, but would make inroads
into the prosperity of the country.
Walter Macarthur said the people
of California will defend their state
rights against the assumption of these
latter day federalsts,'' and declared
that the issue Of state rights raised by
the presidents message has super
seeded the issue of the segregation Of
Japanese children.
Other speakers addressed the meet
ing along similar lines. defending
state rights, and characterized T. e,
presidents attitude as e.meddling IN
the affairs of this state
Resolutions termed a reply to the
president" were adopted, of which tn
following are part:
Resolved, that we insist upon and
shall to the limit OF our power main
tain our rights under the constitution
Of the United States and the constitu-
ton of California, and as a matter of
practical necessity and mental well I
being of our people, to segregate the
pupils in the schools in such manner
as reason and experience shall dictate,
and to adopt and enforce such other
regulation as may be deemed wise and
expedient in the conduct of our educa-
tional and other state or municipal af-
fairs; further,
Resolved, that we resent the pres
dents threats of compulsion by arm
ed force in a matter clearly within the
purview of municipal and state au-
thority as insulting to the state, and
rs an intolerable reflection upon its
rights as a sovereign constituent of
the United States.
Resolved, that we are opposed to
he presidents recommendation that
Tor the naturalization of the Japanese
Ind that the powers Of the federal
government be enlarged for the pur-
pose of subverting the proper author
ty Of this and other states; further,
Resolved, that the powers vested |
n the federal government by the re-
'pective states are designed for use in |
the latter in the exercise of |
heir reserved rights and functions; |
any attempt or threat to /
Use these powers to prevent or OBJ |
truct the freest possible exercise of |
he right and functions must be re-
,arded as an act of usurpation menac
ng the freedom Of the American peo-
lie, endangering the stability of Amer /
can institutions and demanding the /
trongest possible protest on the part /
4 every patriotic citizen;
Resolved. that the report Of Secre-
airy MetcaIf is utterly unworthy in |
my particular. the same being obvi-
usly one-sided and grossly exagger-
ted presentation OF incidents which
o far as they exist at all. bear no sig
icance to the question at issue be-
ween the government OF the United
states and of Japan, or between the
tate of California and President