JAPANESE TO QUIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

SEATTLE ORIENTALS WILL EDUCATE THEIR CHILDREN PRIVATELY

JAPANESE TO MAINTAIN SCHOOLS

Subjects of Mikado Resident in Seattle Will Withdraw Children From American Places of Public Instruction.

EDUCATION WILL BE ENTIRELY NIPPONESE

Consul Tanaka and Leading Orientals Back of Movement -- Loyalty to Mikado to Be Thoroughly Inculcated.

Seattle Japanese have decided to withdraw their children from the public schools, because, as was alleged at a special meeting of the Japanese Association of the State of Washington, held in the Baker Building last night, the education given is not satisfactory to them. Japanese schools and Japanese instructors will be substituted for American schools and American instructors, and the Japanese interested say this is done to avoid a possible repetition of the San Francisco trouble. This decision was reached on suggestion of T. Tanaka, local Japanese consul.

In the report of the proceedings made by J. Hashiguchi, secretary of the organization, are these words: "The purpose of the Japanese school is to educate the children in Japanese and to enable them to carry on conversation in their native tongue. There has been considerable discussion in and out of the assembly on the advisability of taxing the brain of the children with both Japanese and English. Care will be taken not to overtax the children and they will be instructed in loyalty to the Mikado and the empire of Japan."

To carry into effect the purpose of the association to prove adequate school facilities for the Japanese children a committee of twenty was appointed by President C.T. Takahashi to solicit funds, and as soon as the money is available a school room will be fitted up and instructors engaged.

It is proposed to employ as principal a graduate of the University of Tokyo. From all that could be gathered the movement is widespread and is indorsed by the Japanese consul and the leading Japanese merchants and professional men of Seattle, who appear to desire a complete separation from the American schools.

The Japanese association has on hand $1,580, part of which was contributed by Baron Kuroki, Baron Komura, Admiral Yamamoto and other distinguished Japanese, who passed through the city. The money was given ostensibly for the improvement of the Japanese in general, but it is believed that they had in view the establishment of efficient Japanese schools in Seattle. At the meeting a discussion arose as to the disposition of the money. It was finally decided not to appropriate it for the school until the wishes of the givers are ascertained.

"Mr. Tanaka, the Japanese consul," said Mr. Hashiguchi, "has taken a great interest in the proposed Japanese school. Several mass meetings have been called on his initiative during the past month for the purpose of arousing the interest of the colonists, and as a result the Japanese Association took it upon itself to carry out the suggestions of the consul."

There are only seventy Japanese attending American schools in Seattle and it is propsed [proposed] to appropriate $150 a month for the purpose of providing Japanese instructors for them. A meeting will be held in the near future to complete the plans for the school.