The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-16
.CHlDES RUSSIA
FOR ROASTING
H. w. Denison Says Japan's En-
envy Has No Reason to
Feel Proud.
Part Of the Japanese Peace Party
Passes Thru, Homeward
Bound.

1t you have failed to pay debt
which your creditor is not in a posi-,
tion to collect, that is no reason you
should feel specially proud of yourself.
But the Russians are taking. great cred
it to themselves because they got out
OF T Rhayg an oe ON fhe 20
treaty was made today at the Minneso-
ia club, st. Paul, by Henry w. Deni-
son, legal adviser to the Japanese for
eign Office.
Mr.. Denison and four other members
Of the mikado s peace party reached
st. Paul at 1920 am, today, over the
Burlington road in the private car
Wisconsin. They breakfasted at the
club as the guests of j. j. Hill, who was
represented by General Passenger
Agent. G. e. Stone Of the Great North
ern road. At 1880 they continued
their trip west.
Mr.. Denison's companions were 2.
Yamaza, director Of the political bu-
reau of the foreign office; M. Adatchi,
secretary of legation and attached to
the foreign office; Colonel Tachibama,
military attache to the peace embassy
a distinguished officer, who on the staff
of General Nodzu, fought in all the inn
portant battles of the recent war, and
K. Otchiai, secretary of legation, who
was lOI1ucllY SIdGlOu6u- dG- dIIS.
Couldn't Force Demand.
Discussing the peace terms, Mr.. Den
ison said:
"We didn't insist upon an indemni-
ty for the simple reason that our posi-.
ton didn It permit Of insistence. If
we'd had feet in the Baltic sea OF
an army before st. Petersburg, or at
the gates Of Moscow, we might have
enjoyed the same advantage that the
Germans possessed when they occupied
Paris They got big indemnity from
France merely as an inducement to &C
away, An indemnity in international
affairs, you know, is not SO much pay
ment for past losses as a aSlarantee
that future losses will be prevented.
But our fleets and armies were
many thousands Of miles from Euro.
pean Russia. We could, it is true, have
renewed the war and captured Vladivo-
stok and got, perhaps, in position to
collect an Indemnity, but it would have
cost us some millions Of yen-as much
as the indemnity itself was worth, not
to speak Of lots of men.
Our treaty, as our ENJOYS rightly
consider it, secured all that was to be
antees against further encroachments
| on the part of Russia.
The Russians made a great point
of their honor, their dignity, that would
not permit them to pay an indemnity
But they gave up Port Arthur, which
had cost them SO much, and which was
of such great value to their empire. ]
should have thought that the loss OF
such a fortress and seaport would have
been quite as detrimental to their dig
nifty as the payment of an indemnity.
Don't Expect Trouble.
emo, the embassy is not at all ap.
prehensive about hostile reception in
| Japan. We re losing no sleep about it
| There is no probability of any sassass
| nations on our return, nor of any seri
Gus trouble. The riots were largely
instigated, we suspect, by political in
fuences. Any sort of treaty would
have been attacked by the opposition
And the people will not blame Baro1
Komura and his associate envoy. w,
ENJOYS did their plain duty. They car
ried out their instructions and did no
| exceed them.
The Hari-Kari Story.
AIS to the report that the baron i
committing hari-kari by slow poison
/ it's good American newspaper stuff
/ but there is nothing to it. The baron il
getting on finely. We have just re
4 cefved telegram from New Yorl
telling us that he passed a good nigh
and that his temperature is almos
normal
Of the peace party, Aimaro Sato, fol-
!. merly minister resident at the city o
Mexico and Mr.. Honda and Mr.. Koni
shi, secretaries of legation, attached t
the foreign office, are. with the barol
at the Waldorf Astoria, Mr.. Denise,
said. They will come west as soon a