The San Francisco call., 1897-06-04
ANGRY ENOUGH
TO QUIT HAWAII
The Japanese Minister
Much InCenSed at
Cooper.
Friction Over the Public ion
of Important Diplomatic
Correspondence.
Japanese Press Begins to Take a
Different View of Emlgra-
tlon to the Islands.

HONOLULU, HAWAII, May 27.-There
is con siderable friction between Min
lister of Foreign Affairs Cooper ana the
Japanese Minister over the japanese i'm
broglio, which seems to be developing
some i'll feeling
Minister Shimamura, in a published in
terview. accused Minister Cooper OF Civ
ing 10 the press the text of his (Cooper's }
answer to Japan's demands before he had
received the original.
This Minister Cooper denies and fur
nishes proof of the exact hour that one
of his attaches delivered the document at
the Japanese Ministers house, which was
fully half an hour before the afternoon
pa pers went to press.
Minister Cooper also states that he gave
out the substance OF HawaiIs answer as
an Offset 10 the action of the Japanese
/ Government in giving out the full text of
I their demand on Hawaii to the japanese
press, copies of which were received in
Honolulu by the China steamers even be-
l fore the steamer Naniwa arrived here.
Conn parison of these with the original
document, received by Minister Cooper
from Councillor Akiyama shows that the
|
stance OF the demands TO be made again st
| Hawaii, but were furnished with exact
copies of the document. Minister Cooper
further claims that the time had come to
make the whole matter pubic, both in
Hawaii and the United States and to suit
his own purposes he chose time three
! hours before the departure of a steamer TO
the United States, so that Hawaiis stand
would be known there before in Japan.
This srate of affairs evidently caused
angry feelings 10 arise in Minister Shima-
mura's breast, and he was interviewed by
an Advertiser reporter, TO whom he ex-
pressed himself in a measure quite undip-
lomatic, even going SO as to threaten to
withdraw from Hawaii.
A Yokohama dispatch of Nav 4. sent by
way of San francisco, states that anot her
warship, probably The Taxa chiho-kan,
may be ordered to Honolulu. Another
dispatch states tha, the future movement
OF the cruiser Naniwa will be directed by
Minister Shimamura.
In the meantime part of the Japanese
press Sc ems to have discovered that there
are two sides TO the immigration business.
and some OF the papers are denouncing
very severely the methods by which it is
being carried on. The Sekai.no. Nippon
for instance, has some starting comments
on the present system of Japanese cooly
emigration, which 1t stigm atizes as not
much different from slavery. and declares
that the present mode of emigration must
be radi callv changed or stopped alto.
gether Laborers who emigrate under
contracts, bound by pecuniary transac-
tions with agents, are slaves for the term
they accept.
The selling of a mans labor for fixed
period amounts to the selling of the mans
SELF for his whole life, his health. move
monts. occupations, pleasures and even
freedom are all fettered in that particular
mode OF bargain, therefore he so-caled
Japanese emigrants are nothing more or
less than slaves. 1t can never be recon-
ciled to the true prin cIples of national
progress and expansion to send out ig-
norant laborers who, when they have
saved little money and served out the
hxed term, are only eager to 60 back
home Nor can the sending of such low
class of people be called true emigration.
Therefore, if the Governments. is really de-
slrous to encourage EN- igration on sound
basis 1t must put stop to this slave
traffic" for otherwise Japan will be surs
to incur the contempt of other nations.