Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-12-10

the people OF the United States. We
know confidently that they are our
friends and that they klow that we
are their friends. japan has no enc
mics in the United States outside OF
san Francisco. 1t gives me pleasure
to tell You also that the United
States has no enemies In Japan. we
regard your people as cur best
friends. You have always been our
best friends and we are confident that
you Will continue to be So That the
Japanese can make war upon their
best friends Is absurd and impossible.
THE other night at dinner party
a lady said to me: 'You must be very
angry with us. why so?' asked.
Because OF the way the people are
acting in San Francisco she replied.
Not at all | said That Is only n
local incident, matter which your
government win take care OF and
| therefore 1t does not give us any cor
cern. We understand II and our peo
pie Will not be mlsled by the sensa-
tional articles that are being pub
lished in yonr newspapers and In Eu.
rope
rhe japanese are not belligerent
| people continued the ambassador.
| We are not in search OF conquest.
| We have had but two wars since our
civilization; one of those wars was
| fought for the same reason that the
United States fought with Spain the
| other war was fought to compel Rus
sia to carry out pledges made to your
| own government. to your lamenteti
secretary of state, the late John Hay,
Japan fought Russia to preserve the
integrity of the East to secure an
open door for the commerce of Amer.
lea as well as the commerce of Japan.
| to carry out tho ideas and the princi
pies and the policy so ably enunclated
by Colonel Hty. The results of that
war must be preserved. and therefore
| II is necessary for Japan to maintain
her army and her navy: but our ma.
,ional policy Is the same as yours
The United states and Japan stand
together to preserve the integrity OF
| the East and the open door.
I'VE have not the slightest hostile
sentiment toward any nation. and we
couli not possibly have hostile sen
| timent toward America. Japan
| stands in peculiar situation-,in the
| middle. between the East and the
West. II is the champion of El
Korean civilization In the East and OF
| the rights of the eastern nations In
| Europe Our national policy is to pre-
vent aggressive demonstrations from
any nation. Your president and Sec
rotary Root understand that perfectly
well. Our two nations have been a
unit on every occasion when their in
terests were involved
in 1900, when the Boxer troubles
broke out | was minister of foreign
affairs at Toxic. Secretary Hay tele
| graphed me to insist upon the integ-
rity of China. at once responded
that Japan would do so. and we stood
together from the beginning to the
end. The Americans and the Japan
ese and the English were thoroughly
united against the aggressive policy
of Europe and checked IT, But that
was no new or strange thing. Both
nations expected it Of each other.
They could not have done anything
else, because their interests are mu-
tual, their sense of justice Is the
same, their principles and their policy
are similar.
Il said to Secretary Root the other
day that our friendship was hered-
itary. We. cannot change it, and we
do not want to change It, There Is
no necessity to change 1t. because any
other policy would be to the disad-
vantage of both. You now have a
national interest In the East because
of your possessions in the Philippines
and it must be quite agreeable for you
to feel that you are not alone there
but have a hereditary friend near by
Therefore all this talk about war is
ridiculous"
Some people say that Japan has
designs on the East?" | suggested.
THAT is even greater nonsense
We have enough to do at home and
in Formosa. Korea, Manchuria and
China in the development of resources
4 anu tlNlllLdAlOhs ptbih'1t II ~ biC''
important for us that the United
States should have that archipelago
than to have it ourselves. The inter
ests of the two governments are Sc
closely parallel. their policies are SO
similar. that 1t is great advantage
to us to have friend so near, just az
1t Is an advantage to you"
HAS no one In Japan suggested
that you ought TO have the Philip
, pinesY' | asked.
Before the United States tool
those Islands we had some people VIII
( advocated their annexation Of mill
tary and strategic reasons. but the,
were only private persons. The gov
, ernment never contemplated such
thing, and after your people took pos
' session 1t has not been suggested
' again even from private sources. Th
: only feeling is that of additional SC
! curity, because We have our mos
' friendly neighbor so near.
I Even were there no other reason
4 the commercial and industrial intel
n | ests of both the JAPANESE and tn