Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-04
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WILL INSIST.
Expect Solution Of San Francisco
School Controversy Without
Yielding Treaty Rights.


TOKYO, Feb. 4.-After careful sur
vey of public feeling here regarding
the prospect of IA satisfactory solution
of the San Francisco school eontrover-
sy it may be stated that while the APP
proach Of the termination of the dis
agreeable affair is welcomed. vet the
report from Washington that a solution
may be effected by a mutual treaty ex-
cluding the immigration Of laborers is
generally disbelieved as unreasonable.
according to the prevailing feeling, Il
solution must be effected on Japan's
treaty rights pure and simple.
However, confidence continues that a
solution Of the question will be reach
ed without the least sacrifice of Japa-
nese honor and prestige or that re-
sort to arms will be at all necessary.
Baron Kaneko, a member of the
Japanese house of peers and special
ambassador recently detailed by the
imperial government to visit Amer
lea and study political and economic
conditions there, has just been inter
viewed on the San Francisco school
question. In the course of the inter
view he said;
"From the outset | knew It to be
local question, unindorsed by Ameri-
can public opinion, and l have been
speaking Of it to my friends in that
light. This is more than confirmed by
President Roosevelt's message, which
l consider the greatest utterance since
the farewell message of President
Washington. 1t is unprecedented in
the way it so strongly advocates a for
egn cause. No stronger or ADLER ad-
vocate could be found for Japan. Had
the same school question arisen else
where a crisis would have occurred
and loud defiance have been uttered
the length and breadth of the Japanese
empire.
GAS a sincere friend of America,
could not help but regret that San
Francisco officials should have chosen
innocent children for effecting their
political ends.
'All my friends who have recently
returned from abroad, making compar-
TENS in civilized countries, concur in
giving the first rank to the American
system. The fact that such an excel
lent fruit of civilization has been re
fused to the children of a friendly pow
er, and that. too, in country acknowl-
edged as the practical exponent of hui
mahitarianism only tends to ALLEVIATE
it from the sympathies of the civilized
world Before this injustice Japan
rests peaceful and quiet. Not a single
soul has ever thought that the San
Francisco affair would endanger the
friendship of both nations. The affair,
disagreeable and regrettable as it is,
has served the unique purpose of dem
onstrating to the world how deep root
ed is the friendship between Japan and
America"
A conference between President
Roosevelt, Secretary Root and the San
Francisco board of education, which
Mayor Schmitz will attend, is expect
ed to be held in Washington on Fri
day or Saturday to discuss the Japa-
nese school question. 1t is understood
that the president will endeavor to in
duce the board of education to rescind
its action excluding the Japanese chill
dren from the schools.
A Honolulu dispatch says that $1,000
Japanese are now in the Hawaiian Is
lands. it is estimated. or these 10000
are adult males and of this number
$4,000 are men trained in arms. Six
thousand of them are veterans of the
war with Russia