Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-02-04
JAPAN WILL INSIST.
Tokyo Expects Solution With. out Yielding Treaty RightA
NO RESORT TO ARMS NECESSARY
MikaAo and His Adviser Will Not Sacrifice Honor or Prestige of Their KinGdom-Conf to Dis.
 ouss School Question.

TOKYO, Feb. 4.--After a careful sur vey of public feeling here regarding the prospect of satisfactory solution of the San Francisco school controver sy 1t may be stated that while the ap proach of the termination of the dis. agreeable affair is welcomed, yet the report from Washington that solution may be effected by a mutual treaty ex. cluding the immigration of laborers is generally disbelieved as unreasonable.
 According to the prevailing feeling, a solution must be effected on Japan's treaty rights pure and simple.
 However, confidence continues that a solution of the question will be reach. cd without the least sacrifice of Japa. nese honor and prestige or that re. sort to arms will be at all necessary.
 Baron Kaneko, q 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 I knew it to be . local question, unindorsed by Amerl. can public opinion. and have been speaking of 1t to my friends in that light. This is more than confirmed by President Roosevelts message, which consider the greatest utterance since the farewell message of President Washington. It is unprecedented in the way 1t so strongly advocates for. eign cause. No stronger or abler 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.
 "As a sincere friend of America, l could not help but regret that San Francisco officials should have chosen innocent children for erecting their political ends.
 "All my friends who have recently returned from abroad, making compar- ative observation of educational sys- 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 friendly pow CT, and that. too, in country acknowl- edged as the practical exponent of hu- manitarianism, only tends to alienate 1t from the sympathies of the civilized world. Before this injustice Japan rests peaceful and quiet. Not single soul has ever thought that the San Francisco affair would endanger the friendship of both nations. The affair, disagreeable and regrettable as 1t is, has served the unique purpose of dem- onstrating to the world how deep root cd 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 Frl- day or Saturday to discuss the Japa- nese school question. It is understood that the president will endeavor to In. duce the board of education to rescind its action excluding the Japanese chil. dren from the schools.
 A Honolulu dispatch says that G5,000 Japanese are now in the Hawaiian Is. lands, 1t is estimated. Of these 10000 are adult males, and of this number 15,00O are men trained in arms. Six thousand of them are veterans of the war with Russia.