The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-05-12

EXPLAINS
Gives His Side Of the
japanese
Row.

Editor Shiozawa OF the Hawaii Shin
po 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 II last night
he said:
1.-THE article ia ridiculous. II 1t was
translated into Japanese and published
In Hawaii Shinpo all the 10000 Japa-
nese in Hawaii would laugh. I am Of
the opinion that the supposed Japanese
interviewed by the Bulletin is really
white man. The article suggests that
l want to be consul. This shows how
ignorant the writer is. The consulship
is business office. not a diplomatic
post, and the man who holds 1t must
have special preparation for the work
and must go through a certain course
of examinations and subordinate POSI-
tions before he can become a consul.
A minister or an ambassador might be
picked from the plain people without
going through such special prepara-
ton but not a consul" Then with a
hearty laugh Mr.. Shlozawa said, II
have a show to be a millionaire or
minister, but a consul-never.'
"As to the accusation that I wanted
the presidency of the Central Japanese
League, 1t is absolutely false. was
one of the men who urged that the Con-
ul-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
I do not know him now, as understand
that he is a professional lecturer who
has been charging money for his lee
lures on the war. Now that business Is
dull he probably thought that IL he
could get the people stirred up they
would come and hear him to his finan-
cial gain. There was a fee of 25c.
charged for his address the other night.
This question against the immigra-
ton companies, the Kei Hin bank and
the ul-General has been in the air
for the past two years. Hawaii Shin
pc took 1t up but as we wish to be
very conservative we did not make
such n sensation of 1t as some of the
other japanese papers did. We wish
ed to find remedy In a peaceful way.
1 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-
lions of the immigration companies
and the Kei Hin bank. The Consuls
organ, the Yamato Shimbun, accused
| me Of writing the article about the
meeting in yesterdays Advertiser. You
| know how false that Is.
Reporters came to me the next day
and asked whether the accusations Shi-
mazda made were true. I told them that
! considered that this was an affair
for the Japanese people alone but that
II they wanted information they should
go to the consul. I supposed that he,
In his Official position would say that
he had nothing to give out so that this
row might be kept among our own
people alone. Instead he said that the
agitation was the work of "few
soreheads."
Yesterday and today every Japa-
nese merchant and professional man
with the exception of a few connected
with the immigration companies or
bank signed a paper demanding three
things ~ Removal of the Consult Gen.
erai, (2) Driving out of immigration
companies. 49, Closing OF the Kei Hin
bank. They call themselves the Re
form Party Does that look as II the
movement was backed by only a few
soreheads?'"
It