Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-19
THE JAPANESE
FEAR TO COME
Tokyo Government will Not Send
Squadron to Frisco Special
Message Sent TO Congress.

WASHINGTON, Dee. 10. - Coinc,-
dent with the sending to congress of n
special message from President Roose-
welt on the exclusion of Japanese pu-
pills from public schools in San Fran
/ cisco, in which he reiterates his inten-
ton of using the federal power for the
protection of aliens if necessary, comes
the news from Honolulu that the jap
anese squadron which was to visit San
! Francisco will not go there, fearing a
repetition of the Maine disaster.
Other dispatches tell on the authori-
ty of a United States consul Of the re-
ported intention of the Japanese to
close Asia as a market for American
wheat and cotton.
President Roosevelt in the special
message transmitted to congress the
final report of Secretary Metcalf on
the situation affecting the Japanese in
San Francisco. The president com
ments on the report as follows:
THE report deals with three mat
tiers of controversy-frst, the exclusion
of the Japanese children from the San
Francisco schools; second, the boycott
ting of Japanese restaurants, and,
third, acts of violence committed
against the Japanese.
CAS- to the first, / call your especial
attention to the very small number of
Japanese children who attend school,
TO the testimony as to the brightness.
cleanliness and good behavior of these
| Japanese children in the schools and
to the fact that. owing to their being
scattered throughout the city, the re-
quirement for them all to go to one
special school means that they cannot
have school facilities. Let me point
out further that there would be no OBJ
lection whatever to excluding from the
schools any Japanese on the score of
age. 1t is obviously not desirable that
young men should go to school with
children. The only point is the excIu-
sion of the children themselves. The
number of Japanese children attending
the public schools in San Francisco is
very small. The government has al
ready directed that suit be brought to
test the constitutionality of the act in
question, but my very earnest hope is
that such suit will not be necessary
and that as a matter of comfy the citi-
zens of San Francisco will refuse to
deprive these young japanese children
of education and will permit them to
go to the schools.
''The question as to the violence
against the japanese is most admira-
bly, put by Secretary Metcalf, and |
have nothing to add to his statement.
| I'M entirely confident that, as Secre-
tary Metcalf says. the overwhelming
sentiment of the state of California is
for law and order and for the protec-
ton of. the Japanese in their persons
and property. Both the chief of police
and the acting mayor of San Francis
co assured Secretary Metcalf that ev-
erything possible would be done to pro-
tect the Japanese in the city. | author
lied and directed Secretary Metcalf to
state that if there was failure to pro.
tect persons and property then the en-
tire power of the federal government
within the limits of the constitution
would be used promptly and vigorous
ly to enforce the observance of u
treaty. the supreme INV of the land,
which treaty guaranteed to japanese
residents everywhere in the Union full
and perfect protection for their per-
sons and property. And to this end
everything in my power would be
done, and all the forces of the United
States, both civil and military. which |
could lawfully employ would be en-
and property