The National tribune., 1907-01-24


labor, by the money boarded and re-
mitted to Japan, and forever lost to the
progress of our country, by his infec-
tious diseases, by his moral and social
degradation.
Loss of the Presidents Esteem.
But the loss of our Presidents es-
TEEN, the danger this little school COM
plant has incurred to our sacred State
rights and to our rights as citizens and
our voting franchise and the future pos
session of the dear old hills of Califor-
MIA" have awakened a united public
sentiment against the brown men we
have petted and have bestirred a re-
sentiment that courts, Presidents fleets
or armies will not suppress. until, by
every peaceful means the people pos
sess, the Jap and the yellow peril he
carries with him is as securely checked
as were his kinsmen, the Turks, some
centuries ago In their attempt to sub
vert Europe. We want no more of him.
If he is sensitive and proud, SO are We.
If he is full of fight, so are we, even
tho we fully realize we would have to
bear the brunt of war and possibly be
blown to atoms before Uncle Sam is in
lighting fettle. Let Congress strengthen
the Pacific fleet, Army and defense as
early as possible, for we are very likely
to offend this supersensitive intruder in
SO many ways in the near future that
war is inevitable unless he drops his
martial swagger and removes the irri-
tant chip from his shoulder. We have
borne his elbowing on the sidewalk and
his exclusion of our ladies from car
seats and other social indignitieS as
long as we intend to-
There is another factor with which
We must hereafter reckon. 1t is the
high-born spirit of the American school
,,.,l,
of the same makeup as the Boston boy
of Revolutionary days, that demanded
of Gen. Gage protection for their snow
slides against the intrusive soldiery. He
is conscious of containing in himself
the germ of future racial and National
fruition and glory, and he has been
whetted to the keenest edge by this
incident. IF the Jap is ordered into
school with him he will worry the life
out of the brown boy. This he will do ef-
fectively, despite all the reproving powers
above him. Not even a Gordon of troops
around the school house will give relief
to the object of his resentment and de-
rision. And here is a civic danger. Any
effort to enforce respect he does not
feel will make a rebel of him. and all
the Japs of all the islands of the sea
and all their wealth and trade and
treasure are not worth one State or one
city of rebellious American boyhood.
While the fatherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man doctrine Is a true
one, yet it cannot be brought about by
legislation, arms or coercion. 1t can
be attained only thru the races them
selves. Booker Washington has
glimpse of it's attainment in his advice
to the negro to shun the roads that lead
to clash and riot with the Caucasian,
and school himself in the trades and
arts and sciences until the white man
recognizes in him a capable and COM
petent being. approaching equality with
hiIr in intellect and creative power. The
Jap has done much to lift the Mongol
to a plane of dignity and respect, but
some generations must pass before he
can rise from the depths of serfdom in
to which he fell to the nights of civil
ization attained blythe Caucasian. Let
the Mongol live to himself mainly, in
the fertile valleys of Asia.
A Recapitulation.
But TO recapitulate on the school
question:
First. japanese are not excluded from
our public schools, but are provided
with school especially adapted to their
finely equipped and directed
by excellent teachers.
Second. In segregating Mongolian
children the city has merely obeyed
state statute passed IN the on >, uiuel
which an Oriental school was estab-
lshed in 1887, and well and cheerfully
attended since by Chinese children;
that the Japs for many years We're not
held to the requirements of the statute,
either in racial or age conditions; that
there is no city ordinance in the mat
ter but the segregation was ordered
pursuant to the State law by resolution
of the Board of Education in October,
] sos. and again in October. 1906.
Third. This segregation was prompted
by the complaints of~white parents and
the voice of the press against japanese.
mainly coolie adults, crowding white
children out Of congested schools, and