soil together with the energy of its population have continued to
attract thousands of immigrants each year.
The exclusion of Japanese students from the public schools of San
Francisco, 1906, seemed for a time to augur grave results. One-half of
the ninety Japanese who were in attendance upon these schools were above
sixteen years of age and were taught in the classes with little
children. The order of the San Francisco school board excluding the
Japanese was in harmony with the California law which permitted local
school boards to segregate Mongolians in schools apart from those for
white children. But this order nullified our treaty with Japan which