Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

People have spoken as if this discharge from the service was a punishment. I deny emphatically that such is the case, because as punishment ...

In precisely the same spirit I have now acted with reference to these colored men who have been guilty of a black and dastardly crime.

It is obviously not desirable that young men should go to school with children.

Let me point out further that there would be no objection whatever to excluding from the schools any Japanese on the score of age.