AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3729, 8 December 1906, Page 3

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

TIM Education Question.

Sensible Comments.

The San Francisco Call, in an article dealing with the Japanese question, says:—“The demand that Japanese students be admitted to the public schools on equal terms with the children of American citizens is nothing less than impudent. - These people come here to get an education that costs them nothing. They pay no taxes; they contribute nothing to the support of the public schools; they do not expect to become American citizens, add* are not wanted in that opacity. In a word, they are in- ’ > i tinders, who expect to be treated On equalterms with the people who pay for the service. The Board of Education treated the Japanese more liberally than they deserved when a special school was provided, which they are at liberty to attend along, with other Mongolians. It is not at all clear that they are entitled to so much consideration. They give nothing in return for the service, and it is very clear that San Francisco does not owe them an education. At the root of our public school system lies the conception that it provides a training for the intelligent exercise of the rights of American citizenship. Students who are not eligible to become American citizens should be required to pay for their education, and if, as the Japanese claim, there is a law to the contrary, then that law should be changed. We owe the Japanese nothing.”