The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-19
TO ADMIT JAPANESE
ONLY ADULTS WILL BE IN ORIENT
 AL SCHOOLS.
No Laborers of Mikaao's EmRire afii Be Allowed Inside United states
 and Ruie Works Both

FHn are I0 Ue aulHttlCu tO NhttC sthStAe of san Francisco under certain restric- tons; skilled and unskilled laborers coming from Japan barred for the mainland of the United States. and American laborers. skilled and unskiil- cd. are to be excluded from Japan. This is the basis of the agreement between President Roosevelt. Secretary Root, Mayor Schmitx and the San Francisco School Board, as an adiustment of the aufi-Japanese agitation brought about by the segregation of Japanese child ren in tho schools of San Francisco.
 The agreement means that the, schools of San Francisco will be eon- dncied in the same manner as they were before the Board or Educatioa adopted the resolution last October, providing for the segregation Of the Ja- panese, excepting that adult Japanese who are in primary grades, must con- tihue to attend the orientai schools and that Japanese children under l6 years of age will he admitted to classes with white children of their own ages.
 While the resolution of the scnoof Board as amended, reads, Children Of alien birth 1t is freely admitted py Mayor Schmitz and his associates .hat the resolution will apply only to the Japanese children, and that the chang ing of the wording was to make 1t plain to the Tokio government that no discrimination was intended against Ja-1 panese children.
 Assistant City Attorney Williams of San Francisco who has acted as legal adviser to Mayor Schmitz and the Board of Educa.'on since negotiations have been pending in washington. to- night said:
 ''Io uderstand the exact meaning of the statement given out by Mayor Schmitz it will be necessary for tho newspaper men to read between the lines. The only concession we have made Is to admit Japanese children to the waite schools while in return the administration has brought about the exslusion of Japanese laborers from this country"
 Mayor Schn1itz said:
 This Is only a temporary agree ment. President Roosevelt has given US direct and positive assurance that hs will at once begin negotiations with Japan for the purpose of bring ing about a new treaty that will ex- clude Japanese isborers, skilled and unskiiled, from continental United States"
 shortly before midnight the follow ing statement was given out at the White House:
 typewritten copy of Mayor Schmitzs statement was submitted 10 President Roosevelt and Secretary Root by the Associated Press and the statement is entirely satisfactory to tbem."
 Mayor sehmitz's statement of the agreement follows:
 "We find that the administration and Congress are entirely alive to the stt- uatton in California, and we feel they are anxious to meet the wishes of the Californians. They are also desirous of keeping OH the hest possible terms with Japan and of doing nothing which can break the ancient friendship be- tween that country and the United States.
 Tt has been explained to us that the greatest positivencss that the form of the action taken by the school board of San Francisco in relation to the Japaness school children has been com pIetely misunderstood and rnisconstrued as an attack upon the Ja anese as such and that this misunderstanding has been and Is now one of the chief ob- stacles to the achievement of the pur- pose the people Of California really have in, view. this purpose being to se- cure by honorable and amicnble ar engagement with Japan the mutual ex- clusion from the two countries of the Iaborers skilled and unskliled of each country.
 ..This earnest desire of the people of California. and we may add, In our be- lief. of the people of the entire Pa cifc Coast, to check the coming hither of Japanese laborers, skilled and un- skilled and our. entire willingness and desire that Japan should similarly put a stop Id the going of American labor CTS. skilled and unsk!Iled, to Japau. springs from no motive other than to bring about commercial and industrial conditions to the satisfactory under" standing of the two friendly nations. Events have convinced us however. | that many and probably most otthe Jap nese labnreTs WHO come hi her are real . | ly brought over in this country in Vlol- l alton of the contract labor law and that l the well-beiug of our wage workers i'm peratiVely. demands thGt immigration | of Japancse laborerS tn this coun.r ", i skilled and unskillad. shall cease 1 There are other countries as well as l Japan to which we feel that In all prob ability there will have to hc similar leg | islation, owing to the fact that we are l convinced hat the !aborerS who come l here from thse countries also really come in violation Of the contract labor | law. We have every reason to beiieve | that the administration now shares and l that congress will share our way oI 1 looking at this problem and that the | result we desire. the cessation of the 1 immigration of Japanese laborers. skill ! ed and unskiEed 60 this country will 1 be speedily achieved.
 "A striking proof of the attitude oi ! the administra tion, their willingness to
 meet our desire and yet at the same l time to do il in way which Will Dc compatible with continuing on terms ol 1 genuine friendship with Japan is showr by the passage Of the immigration bill
 which will bar out Japanese coming hilhcr by way of Hawaii, Mexico, Cana
 da and the canal zone by enforcing tho 1 limitation which Japan voluntarily pu .: into the passports issued by the govern
 ment. --- -.,'. ---.-
 More than two-tl.irds of the Japanes,
 laborcrs who come hither from Hawaii
 Mexico and Canada and in our judgmen
 aimos. all so coming, really reach thes'
 shores in violation of tue contract al
 though such fact would be well nikl impossible to prove in court Of law.
 We arc satisfied from our numerous | interviews with tho president that fl
 the attitude of the immigration bil of the United States on the 18th da! | of February, 1906, shall prove lnef
 fectual for tho purpose herein men
 tioned and intended, every effort wii
 be made to obtain a treaty with Japal
 authorizing legislation by both Japan
 and the United States to exclude iron
 each of their respective territories th'
 immigration of all subjects of eithe
 of said nations who are laborcrs, skill
 end and unskilled, but in any even
 will favor such form or Legislation
 that will in the most sreedy manne
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