Speech #590155580

Such schools are maintained for the benefit of the citizens of such State as apart of its internal policy so as to provide for their children an education which will broaden and enlarge the intelligence of its citizenship. increase their productive capacity. and contribute to the preservation of law and order and good government within the State. The right of a State to establish and control its public schools is no less a reserved right of the State than the right to create and manage its asylums. hospitals. or its penitentiaries. If the Federal Government call. in utter disregard and defiance of the laws and constitution of a State. make and enforce a treaty which forces into the public schools of the States aliens of the Mongolian race. contrary to the reasonable rules which the State has provided for admission. then the Federal Government can. by the exercise of the same authority. rob the State of every reserved right. regulate and control its municipal and domestic concerns. annul its laws. and abrogate its constituti6n whenever the treatymaking power of the National Government silall see fit to assume to exercise such power. If a treaty made by the Federal Government can force a Mongolian into the same local schools in California with the white children ill defiance of the laws of California and against the judgment and wishes and over the protest of its citizens. then can the Federal Government by a like treaty force the negroes of Cuba. Santo Domingo. Hayti. and the Kongo into the schools of Tennessee or Georgia or other States of the Union side by side with the white children of those States and in defiance of their laws. wisely made for the separation of the races.