CALIFORNIA AND THE JAPANESE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8305, 7 December 1906, Page 5

CALIFORNIA AND THE JAPANESE.

THE PRESIDENT'S ATTITUDE RESENIUD. Reoeived Deoember 6, 7.18 a.m. NEW YORK, Decembers. Californfaa Congressmen greatly reseut President Roosevelt's attitude towards the schools question. Senator Raynor intends to move that the United States is powerless to enter into a controversy with any foreign Government in reference [to the public schools of any State. He affirms the view fihat as the American Japanese treaty con* tains no provision bearing on that subject, therefore it is Mr Roosevelt's duty to notiiy J a Dan that; the State's public schools are not within the jurisdiction of the United Stnte3, and that the latter is powerless to regulate or supervise their administration. (The case for California ia thm put by the San Franoisoo Call: "The demand that Japanese students be admitted to the public schools on equal terms with the children of American oitizens 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 pnblio sohools. They do not expect to become Amerioan citizens, and are not wanted in that capaoUy. In a word, they are intruders, who expect to be treated ou equal tertrs with the people who pay for the service. The Board of Education treated the Japanese more liberally than they deserve when a special school was provided, which i they are at liberty to atteod alung witn other Mongolians. It is not at all clear that they are entitled to so muoh consideration. They give nothing in return for the service, and it is very dear that San Franoisoo Joes not owe them an education. At the toot of our public school system lies the conception that it provides a training for the intelligent exexoise of the rights of American citizenship. Students who are not eligible to become Amerioau oitizens should be required to pay for their education, and if, as the Japanese claim, there is a law to the contrary, then the law should be changed. We owe the Japanese nuthing.")