Los Angeles herald., 1907-02-09
FRAZIER SAYS
RACES SHOULD
Be SEPARATED
Thinks japanese Ask
Too Much
Senator from Tennessee Scores Presl.
dent Roosevelt and Outlines
His Ideas Of the School
Question
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8.-Federal en-
croachment on state rights with the
Japanese school question as the princi-
pal illustration was the subject Of an
address to the senate today by Senator
Frazier of Tennessee.
Mr.. Frazier said that this was not
question that concerned California, but
concerned the right of every state to
control its domestic affairs. If the
federal government by treaty could rob
a state Of control of its own school sys-
tenn the last stronghold of local self
government was destroyed. If treaty
could force Mongolians into the white
schools of California a treaty could
force the negroes of Cuba, Santo Do
mingo, Haiti and the Congo into the
schools Of Tennessee, in defiance of the
laws for the separation of the races.
He expressed the highest admira-
tion for the Japanese, but said
that the action of California furnished
no pretext for a quarrel with that
cisco had simply executed a state law
providing for the education of white
and Japanese children in separate
schools. 1t had been decided over and
over again that states had a perfect
right to make such separation, that
California was but exercising a Legal
and constitutional power.
He denied with emphasis that this
country had ever undertaken by treaty
to interfere with the constitutional
rights Of California in this respect.
Quoting the language of the treaty he
said:
Issues Challenge
IT challenge any one to find in it a
word guaranteeing to Japanese resi-
dents the right to enter public schools
of the states at all, much less to enter
them In defiance of state laws and regu-
lations.
''The United States government can
not force state to create public
schools at ali. The schools were crea-
lures of state law maintained by~state
taxation and subject only to this con-
troll. The right of residence guaran-
teed to the Japanese implied the right
to work and make a living, but not to
go to school. But even If the right Of
residence did carry with it the right to
enter public schools, he added it did
not carry any exemption from the right
of separation in the schools. The treaty
with Japan provided that the Japanese
must conform themselves to the law,
police and regulations of the country
like native citizens" Can it be con-
tended that Japanese aliens have ac-
quired higher privileges than they
would have as citizens of the United
States?
Advice for President
He contended that the president
ought to have followed the example of
Mr.. Blaine in the case of the lynching
of italian citizens in New Orleans.
There was a treaty with Italy which
guaranteed protection to italian citi-
zens, but when the Italian government
complained Mr.. Blaine informed it that
it's alien citizens had no higher rights
than native Americans, and the right
to punish was the exclusive property of
the state where the crime was COM
mitted.
Mr.. Frazier said he did not believe we
had reached the point where we must
apologize for our constitution or change
its character or construction at the sug-
gestion of another power.
"Our trouble with Japan had its origin
in our colonial policy which had in
spired fear in the nations of the east
that we were attempting to dominate
the politics and commerce of the
orient"
Mr.. Frazier dwelt at length on the
recent speech of Secretary Root, which
he declared to be threat to wipe out
state lines and absorb all powers of the
states into the federal government.
Protects the Trust
When, he said, the states are deprived
of the right to judge whether or how
far they shall exercise their powers,
we cease to be a free people. The sec
rtary intimated that this usurpation of
power was necessary to control the
trusts. Before seeking to rob the states
of their power let the federal govern
ment use it's own. Let 1t reduce the
monstrous tariff which has been built
up and which Is protecting the trusts.
1t was not necessary, said Mr.
Frazier, to make the rights and powers
of states conform to a standard set up
by the chief executive
He said the president had incited in
surrection against Colombia and COM
mitted acts of war without authority of
congress-; had overriden the treaty
making power and had threatened to
use the military forces of the United
States to override the laws of the state.
Scores President Roosevelt
He spoke of the presidents having
gone forth with pomp and ceremony
followed by an armed fleet trailing at
his heels after the manner of the Ger
man kaiser to visit his outlying prov
inces.
Secretary Root, he said, had evolved
a constructive recess and had recently
visited the capitals of the south to
show them the big stick and tell them
to be good and pay their debts These
are the people who are crying for more
and greater power.
This, he said, should not be made a
party question, but if the Republican
party chose to go to battle upon an
issue for the complete subversion of
the rights of the states, the Democratic
party, always the party OF the constitu-
tion, will accept the issue. But the
question rises above party; 1t goes to
the very nreaerVatiOn of Our wisely da-