The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-09-05
BARON KANEKO ON
FUTURE OF JAPAN
PREDICTS NEW ERA OF PROSPER.
iTY FOR THE COUNTRY.
America Need Fear No Trouble From
the Japanese as Neighbors or
lmmiurants.

New York, Aug. 31.-Baron Kaneko
of Japan, who took such an important
part in the peace negotiations, today
issued a statement in which he predicts
a new era of prosperity for Japan. He
says that militant Japan will pass with
the coming of peace and that Industrial
Japan will take its place, He says the
war cost his country lot of money,
but not enough to cripple IL. And
further, he says: "I want to tell you
that the Japanese have actually saved
money at home during this war. In
dustries have gone on very much as
usual We have made most of our war
material, weapons, ammunition and
hospital supplies, giving employment
to great numbers of people. They have
put by a little money from patriotic
motives, and there is good deal in
circulation.
II know the advice of the government
has been asked about investments, and
1t has said. Wait until the war is over.
So | expect to see genuine boom in
manufacturing, building and trade.
I'VE shall have some new sources of
revenue. There are the fishery rights
quire from Russia. Some day the ST.
beran fisheries will be as valuable as
those of Newfoundland, and we shall
now have our share of the treasures of
the sea. Many kinds of fish abound
in those waters, and they are rich in
fur-bearing animals.
"Of course, the possession of Dalny
will be of great advantage to us as a
trading station. We shall no longer
have to land our goods at New Chwang.
The whole Lao Tung peninsula,
twice won by the sword and now to fly
the flag of Japan without protest, will
be valuable as an asset, and in course
rived from the Chinese Eastern rail-
way in southern Manchuria, which we
shall take over for term of years.
I'VE shall proceed at once to develop
the freight and passenger business If
an era of prosperity is not coming for
Japan, in the islands, in Korea and
Manchuria, | am not a good prophet;
and the door is open in Manchuria to
all our commercial rivals-wide open
and fastened back. That will be one of
the splendid results of the war; the
policy of the late Secretary John Hay is
now an accomplished fact. no.
Il expect to see Korea and Manchu-
ria invaded by an army of peace-arti-
sans, farmers and laborers. Korea is
only ten hours sail from Japan. There
is a lot of work to be done there and
money to be made. Manchuria could
absorb half the population of Japan
and still there would be room for our
settlers as well as for the Chinese.
That is why think there will be no
japanese immigration question in
America to threaten our friendly rela-
tions with you. But why should there
be any trouble or any pretext for it?
lose patience-and l am good ma
tured man-when | hear the yawp of
the labor agitators about the descent
of the japanese upon the Pacific coast.
1--WE are not alien in heart, custom
and habits like the Chinese. We dress,
live and amuse ourselves like Ameri-
cans when we come here, and we don't
save our money to take it out of the
country. We engage in the same pur-
suits as Americans and transact busi-
ness as they do. We demand the same
wages; in fact, we try to get more.
There is Chinatown in New York
and in San Francisco; whoever heard
of a Japantown?, There never will be.
We live as you do, not to be in the
fashion, but because we like to. When
Komura and / were at Harvard, did
we live and behave like outsiders and
foreigners? No; we ate and drank at
the same table with our American fell
low students and were one with them
in studies, pursuits and amusements.
And so it is with the Japanese every
where in America, in all occupations.
1t is great deal easier to assimilate
us than some of the clannish people
who come over from Europe, and
think we make as good citizens as any
Of them. There will be no japanese ex-
clusion question"
Referring to the Philippines, which
the japanese have been charged with
coveting, he said:
Whatever others may say about
American methods in the Philippines,
we think well of them.
THE Yankees out there are not
blindly exclusive or stubbornly proud.
They are willing to learn, as we are.
They don't reject all ideas that are new
to them. AS colonizers, we are glad to
have them near us in Formosa. And
certainly we don't cast longing eyes on
the Philippines. We shall have enough
to do In Corea and Manchuria for gen.
erations. and no nation, not even the
French, who are uneasy about Cochin
China, need fear us as expansionists."
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