The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-05-12
SHlOZAWA
EXPLAINS
Gives Ills Side of the
Japanese
Row.

Editor Shiozawa of the Hawaii Shin
| Pc is considerably amused at an arti-
Gle in the Evening Bulletin accusing
him of being at the bottom of the pres
ent attack on Consul-General Saito.
When asked concerning it last night
he said:
The article is ridiculous, If it was
translated into Japanese and published
in Hawaii Shinpo all the 10000 Japa-
nese in Hawaii would laugh. 1 am OF
the opinion that the supposed Japanese
interviewed by the Bulletin is really
white man. The article suggests that
want to be consul. This shows how
ignorant the writer is. The consulship
is a business office, not diplomatic
post, and the man who holds it must
have special preparation for the work
and must go through a certain course
of examinations and subordinate posi-
lions before he can become a consul.
picked from the plain people without
going through such a special prepara-
ton but not a consul Then with
hearty laugh Mr. ShioZawa said. 81
have a show to be a millionaire or a
minister, but a consul-never."
LAS to the accusation that I wanted
the presidency of the Central japanese
League, it is absolutely false. 1 was
one of the men who urged that the Con-
sul-General take the position. He was
not elected, he was requested to take
the position and I was the one who
most strongly urged him for the place.
II am accused of Turing Shimada on
to attack the consul. This is a false
hood. l never met or saw Shimada
1 do not know him now, as 1 understand
that he is a professional lecturer who
has been charging money for his lee
dull he probably thought that if he
could get the people stirred up they
would come and hear him to his finan-
cial gain. There was a fee of Csc.
charged for his address the other night
This question against the immigra-
ton companies, the Kei Hin bank and |
for the past two years. Hawaii Shin
pc took it up but as we wish to be |
very conservative we did not make !
such a sensation of it as some of the !
other japanese papers did. We wish |
ed to find a remedy in peaceful way.
[ was always a personal friend of the
consul and did not wish personalities
to enter into the controversy
About a month and a half ago we
decided that this thing was going too
far and so we began to expose the ac-
tons of the immigration companies
and the Kei Hin bank. The Consul's
,rgan, the Yamato Shimbun. accused
ne of writing the article about the
Meeting in yesterdays Advertiser. You
Know how false that is.
Reporters came to me the next day
md asked whether the accusations Shi-
NADIA made were true. 1 tod them that
considered that this was an affair
or the Japanese people alone but that
f they wanted information they should
20 to the consul. I supposed that he,
n his official position would say that
lie had nothing to give out so that this
ow might be kept among our own
'eople alone. Instead he said that the
citation was the work of a few
oreheads.''
Yesterday and today every Japa-
ese merchant and professional man
With the exception of a few connected
With the immigration companies or
ank signed a paper demanding three
Kings % Removal of the Consul