The Boise citizen. (Boise, Idaho) 1906-1910, 1907-04-26
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speech of Secretary Root:
At meeting American Society international Law
Secretary Root made address the Japanese controversy which
deserves emphatic rebuke because disngnuous An Aner
Secretary of State speaks if with authority and he chooses
discuss pending international controversy unofficial
cason he should do with perfect fairness He did do
He begins by stating with truth that the questions whether the right
Of residence includes the right public education aliens
admitted public Schools and whether if the segregation of
natonates separate school violation of that
right are by free from doubt Now all will concede
both these questions proper subjects for judicial
the light of preeden and anaogies because their
presupposes the right of the treayang power
bind the in respect them That which
righteous wrath of the people of this that
president admitted of doubt unpatriotcaly sided
with the alien against his countrymn He should have per-
the Japanese government chose intervene tight
battle by supplying funds and counsel to its
complaining subjects The disngenuousness of the Secretary
sisted that treaty making power had the right
bind the control OF its schools without pe
ing arguments against and supporting his contention by
song which he knew be unsound but which, coming from
Secretar State would presumably be accepted by the untnng
Secretary says that the making has the right
forbid discriminate between aliens in this matter because
between nations regarding the treatment
which the citizens of each nation shall receive in the territory OF the
among the familiar ordinary and unques
exercises of the treatmang There no clearer
America than that of Secretary Root and he knows very
because the people have authorized the
treatment of aliens respepro
lection for exapet necessarily follow that they have
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for example And he should have stated.
This all the because Secretary Root expressly con-
there limits the rea-nang power lie says
Ahough there express limitations upon the
granted the national there are certain implied
limitations arising the of government and from
the other provisions of the constitution but those implied mta
ts do slightest degree touch the making OF treaty pro
visions relating of aliens within territory
t is of course that under pretense of exercising
the treaty making power president and might attempt
make provisions regarding matters which are not proper SUP
ects international and which would be only colorado
not real-exercse of the treaty-making power
That precisely what has happened If the federal contention
is sound that the terms treaty with Japan state
admitting japanese children to schools II 1t admits any aliens
TO its schools Under color of authority theeaty
power has make contract subject which the peo
pie have withheld jurisdiction and the shame OF it is that
everybody had the question arisen respect to treaty
Domingo demand from that republic that negro
children of citizens of that country should be admitted the schools
South Carolina the government would have been just as ace
opposition that contention as it has been favor OF the con
te1ton of Japan And yet the on all tours
he people claim the right to discriminate against
any aliens whom they Objectionable in respect to all matters
involving social ownership of land though the
supreme court adversely to the latter contention Some
~ '''' ARE GIVING TROUBLE.
The Call has the following editorial expression relative to apa
exclusion:
The Japanese do kindly the presidents exclusion
order They making all kinds of trouble on the border lhe
land in Mexico or Canada and they to think that is
matter of course that they should permitted the United
States When they stopped the frontier BY the immigration
officials they grow ugly and abusive and want to fight
This condition has already serious cause OF embar
the administration The president mas issued s
orders TO the immigration officials that the exclusion order must
Be enforced firmly but gently There must be no violence or at
least no more than absolutely necessary and no bad language
Now if the Japanese governed by the same rules the work
would be comparatively simple But unhappiy the immigrants