The San Francisco call., 1907-02-23
JAPANESE . JIM
crow CARS IS
LATEST CANARD
President Is Disturbed by
False Reports of Race
Hostility Here
HIS WORK HAMPERED
Senator Flint Points Out
the Harm Done by the
Unfounded Rurnors
SOURCE A MYSTERY
SOURCE A MYSTERY
Tales Regarded as Amusing
to City Cause Trouble
at White House

An amusing lot of misinformation
is running wild about the streets of the
national capital regarding the attitude
of San Francisco toward the japanese
residents. 7 he source of this informa-
hon is not apparent, but it is evidently
causing the officials close to the admin
istraton much needless worry.
From recent dispatches from Wash
ington it is evident that the admins
tration fears that San Francisco is on
the verge of an anh-Japanese outbreak
which will seriously embarrass the
mind is particularly hard to under
stand from the fact that no hint of
what Washington fears has made itself
felt in this city
dispatch to The Call from Wash
ington, received yesterday, says:
Members of the administration and
other officials in Washington, who are
interested in the satisfactory outcome
of the negotiations affecting Japanese
immigration, are somewhat disturbed
by rumors that have reached here from
San Francisco of hostility to Japanese
subjects in that city
1T was reported among other things
that a sentiment was developing there
in favor of separate streetcars for Jap
anese. officials, while generally dis
crediting these rumors, deplore further
agitation of the Japanese question
pending the settlement which the ad-
ministration is now effecting.
Senator Flint said:
TT is unfortunate that reports of
this character should be sent out just
at this time. The negotiations for a
successful settlement of the Japanese
situation are progressing favorably
President Roosevelt has the matter well
in hand. and a satisfactory solution is
assured if the administration NAV be
permitted to conduct its negotiations
WITHOUT continuance of unwise agita-
tion on the subject. The administra-
ton fears that reports of proposed dis
elimination against Japanese in San
Francisco, even If these rumors he nm
founded and indiscreet, and the discus
sion of them, may jeopardize the settle
ment which the President is now bring.
ing about and might result in an indef-
mite continuance of present condi-
tons"
The words OF Senator Flint were re-
ceived in this city with much surnrisa
by those who have Interested Them
selves in the school aggregation la
sue. No city, under the circumstances
of the somewhat bitter passage of arms
between the school board and the Fed
eral authorities, could have acted more
fairly toward its Japanese residents
There has been nothing in the wav of
demonstration against the Jananese
beyond the hoodlum acts of few boys.
the Jim Crow" cars have never been
mentioned so far as any one in the pub
lie eye has knowledge
The Anti Japanese and Koraap
League has expressed opinions on the
school question and japanese imniera
ton, but it has never gone beyond
mere expression OF sentiment. Some of
the league are beginning to suspect
that an Interior motive lies in the
sending out of false news from this
city regarding the segregation oues-
ton.
When the President issued his mes
sage on the Japanese question the stand
of this city and State was grossly mis-
represented in the Eastern press. inno-
Gently enough no doubt, SO far as the
papers themselves were concerned
Since that time reports have found
their way to Washington and else
where about San Francisco Sentiment
that have been altogether wrong.
The anti-Japanese sentiment here is
undoubtedly strong and it cannot be
downed, but it is not a sentiment born
of malice. The city and State. so the
league members say, were not intent
upon doing bodily harm to the Japanese
or interfering with the business of
those of the Mikados race who were
here behaving themselves. The Japan
ese mingle with our people as freely as
do men of any nationality and thev
are not subjected to insult or abuse.