The Caucasian., 1907-02-24

| der OF ITS rights to control It's own at
fairs.
"The attitude of this government to-
wards California has been harsh and
turbulent and offensive to the last
degree. Its attitude toward Japan has
been cringing, obseq1lious and almost pu-
silanimous. One of the president 5
apkorisrns has been to speak softly and
carry big stick. He seems to have in
| terDreted that in this instance SO as to
speak softly to foreign nations and car
ry big stick for the backs of his own
people"
| Senator Newlands declared President
Roosevelt to be largely responsible for
the japanese situation.
Under the caption,
CRINGING TO JAPAN AND SUR
RENDER OF STATES RIGHTS.
According to an authorized statement
given out at Washington. the mayor and
school board of San Francisco have
agreed to readmit Japanese children OF
| Japanese parents under 10 years Of age
to the white schools. Japanese above
that age in the primary grades to con-
| tinue at the Oriental school. In return
| for this concession it is declared that the
| president has promised to exclude Jap
anese laborers. skilled and unskilled,
from the continental limits of the Unit
| ed States. whether coming direct from
Japan Or indirectly via the Hawaiian
Islands, and to secure a treaty with ia
pan as speedily as possible providing for
such exclusion The immigration law
about to finally pass will contain pro-
vision empowering the president, i'll his
discretion, to exclude alien laborers
from the limits of the United States
The officials of San Francisco have
signed away the powers that were
theirs under the laws of California. and
IN return they have received mere
promise from the president which he
may not be able to carry into effect.
ate a new treaty and also refuse to toll
crate the exclusion of Japanese laborerS
by proclamation! The president will
then have graver difficulty on his
hands than was involved in the school
question. and since he has so supinely
surrendered the rights OF the American
people TO enact and enforce their own
local laws without dictation from any
foreign power, he may be expected to
promptly recede from any exclusion ar
rangement he may have entered into.
The fear the president has displayed
of offending the Japanese is entirely un
worthy of his high office and his dig
nifty as the chief executive of great
country, and his bruSque attempt to set
aside states rights and the Constitution
of the United States is an act calculated
to make the American people seriously
consider the danger lurking in the per-
sistent efforts of the federal adminstra-
ton to override the most time-llonored
and sacred institutions of the country.
President Roosevelt and some of his
leading advisers have made no secret of
their desire to completely obliterate and
set aside states rights. but the San Fran
cisco school problem has offered an op-
portunity for completely throwing off
the mask and threatening even force in
setting aside state regulations. These
are facts which the American people, If
respective of party, should earnestly
consider, otherwise the time will, be near
at hand when state rights will be merely
memory.
SITUATION MORE DANGEROUS
NOW THAN IT EVER WAS.
1t is perhaps significant that the Cali
fornia senator's promptly disclaimed that
they had been parties to any agreement
whatever, by which we are to infer that
the matter was agreed TO between the
administration and the municipal att
thorities of San Francisco What may
please San Francisco may not please the
state. and the matter of. control of the
public schools is a state, not a municipal