Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1907-06-07
PUBLIC APOLOGY
Japan Mey Ask For 1t From
City of San Francisco
AGITATORS GET TO WORK

Claim That Ministry Is Too Concilia-
1tory In Matter of Persecution Of
Japanese--Their Consul at Frisco
Sees "Deep-Seated Race Antipathy"
Toxic. June 5.-The opposition news
papers quote Count Okuma prominent
" as urging the concentration of Jap
anese national efforts toward the set
Element of what is known as the San
Francisco question; that Japan should
demand Il public apology from the may
or of San Francisco, and also that the
Japanese should receive treatment SIM
liar to that given to Anglo-SaXons in
the United States.
Herein lies the sole hope of definitely
settling the question. Otherwise II
necessary, dcmonstratve measures will
be taken which it will be Impossible to
regard as precpitate in the "ircum-
stances.
Seven university professors. famous
for agitation in moulding public opin-
ion before the war with Russia and dur
ing the period when the peace neGotia-
tons were in progress. are again be-
stirring themselves, although this time
in the direction of generally more
stalwart foreign policy. including Jap
ans dealings with Korea and China.
1t is said that the opposition by
means of public meetings and other
wise. will soon begin campaign
against the Saionji ministry on the
basis that it is showing itself too con-
ciliatory and too much disposed to
make concessions in the matter of the
persecution of japanese in san Fran
CISCO.
Count Oluma. although he has re-
tired from the leadership of the progress
sive party and from active politics and
is now president of the Waseda uni
versity. is still a great leader of public
opinion. lie may even WELD more in
fiuence than when he was an active
party leader. He speaks for the Japan
ese people, when he does speak. more
thoroughly than any other man in Jap
an. Il was he who recently remarked
that Chile and Peru We're 'better
suited to he included in Japan's sphere
Of influence in the future" than was
Brazil.
The reccut recrudescence of Japan
csc national Sensitiveness. aroused i'll
the first place by the segregation of
Japanese in the public schools OF San
Francisco, but Soothed by the united
exertons of President Roosevelt and
Secretary Root. dates from attacks
made last month by San Franciscans
upon several japanese restaurants and
a Japanese bathhouse, in the course Of
which the premises and their contents
suffered considerable damage.
The official explanation of these out
RACES was that they were committed
by ordinary hoodums in the tempo
rary absence of the police, who had
been withdrawn from their usual beats
TO attend to the striking street car men.
The Japanese consul general at San
Francisco. Mr. Matsurkbara. made a
formal statement Of the Japanese side
of the case on May 20, giving names.
places and details in the matter of the
attacks on Japanese and their property,
and said that. in his opinion. the attacks
were not due to IL sporadic outbreak of
hoodum vicousness, but to deep
seated racial antipathy. "to which PEG
pie of no other nationality are at pres
cut subjected"
Mr. Matsurkba added that the
japanese residents of San Francisco
:
RACES. Altogether he made a rather
strong showing for his people. This
statement was telegraphed to Japan
where it created sensation. and. taker
in connection with Foreign Minister
Hayashi'S telegram to Ambassador
Aoki at Washington, telling him to see
Secretary Root and urge the desirable
ity Of having Japanese citizens in thu
United States properly protected. CAV,
the agitatOrS and politicians Of JapaI
the opportunity of which they are now
awaiting themselves so energetically.
Two or three days after the attack OIL
the Japanese bathhOuse band of Jap
aneSc assaulted on the street SOM
white men. and stabbed them severely
The traffic in japanese female slave
and its results are causing the San
Francisco authorities much trouble
That japanese coolies in large mum
beers are being struggled into Californ
from Mexico across the Rio Grande /
well known. A band of % former so
dierS was caught in the act on May q
Trained Nurses For Public School
Boston. June demonstrating tn
health of the pupils of the public school
to be Of as great Importance as the il
tellectual training, the Boston schoC