The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-18
AOKI SCOPES RUM0R OF WAR Japanese Am<Ssador
 Makes ech. RELATIONS roo CORDIAL %-s Declares Interests of Two Countries
 Are. Identical. Eastern Asia Large Ecnongh for com- aneree eff All Nations and Dream
 of straggIe for Control ts
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the &mlcabla relations long existing between the United States and Japan, lVtscount Aoki, the Japanese Ambassa- l ders tonight declared that hts people were fully alive to the magnitude of Japan's obligation to this country. the memory of which would be a lasting monument of the cordial friendship that cements the two nations.
 Eastern Asia. he said, was large enough for the commerce of all na- tions, and the dream of the pessimist | who saw the phantom o% a struggle between the UnSted States and Japan for the supremacy of the Pacific was too ridiculous to be made the subject of serious thought.
 Ambassador AoilSi was the guest of honor at the dinner of the American Asiatie Association tonight.
 Tn presenting the first toast, "rhs President" President James R. Merse of the Association referred to Presi. dent Roosevelts praise in his message of the Japanese, and to the kindly service he has rendered to the promo ton of good feeling between tive great nations bound to each other by ties of mutual interest no less than of estab- I lished friendship"
 followed:
 'I am aware that the sense of this Association in regard to relations be- tween Japan and the United states, which has so often found hitting ex- pression on former occasions, is based upon the recognition of the broad prin- cipIe that the interests of the United States and the empire of Japan are Identical; that, therefore, tue best of reasons exists for the most cordial friendship between the two countries. Difficult to Parallel.
 Indeed, 1t would be difficult to find 1 a parallel case In the history of man kind in which better reasons existed 1 for the naintenancs of the nest ami- 1 cable relations between any two na- | tions, whether viewed from historical, commercial or moral points of view. Eisterically speaking. It was the Uni- ted States that rappeG ct the door of seclusion within which Japan in her ancient isolation ohsrished her own science. literature and art, which were che products of a civilization entirely I distinct in type from that of yours
 'It was the United States that half I q century ago offered to Japan the | right hand of fellowship and intro | duced her into the intercourse of na- tions which has in turn brought into the empire all the benefits of what Is | known as the western civilization. | Since then not year has passed but what has witnessed some incidents that have vividly recalled to the minds l of the two people the existence of l welghty reasons which formed the ba- sis of their mutual sentiment of re- spect, love and admiration.
 "That fact naturally was never more l elOquently brought home to us than lin that hour of the gigantic struggle from which it has pleased Providence l to see us emerge as Q power of some | consequence. It was struggle in l which our very existence was at stake.
 "The support actually received by the Japanese people at the hands of than mere moral support and embrac- ed every kind of assistance which could consistently be given to a bel | ligerent by a nation that has declared 1 It's neutrality in time of war. The peo- pie of Japan are fully alive to the magnitude of. the everlasting service which was thus rendered by the people of this country in the cause of Japan. and the memory of the support lib- orally given will continue to be a liV- ing monument of the cordial friend ship which cements the two nations.
 Turning to the commercial aspect of the question,the plain facts should not be lost sight of that the Pacific Ocean is a vast expanse of water That the territories of Japan and the Unit ed States nowhere touch each other. 1 and that Eastern Asia, with more than 500. 100000 of souls, Is large enough to give room for the commerce of all na- tions, Including that of Japan and of | the United States. The dream of the pessimfst who sees the phantom of the l struggle for supreacy between Japan | and fha United States for control of the Pacific, is too ridiculous to be l made the subject of serious comment.
 MT. President. you have httingly alluded to the fact that the govern . ! Ia | pledged as the government of the l limited States to the maintenance of | the principles of the 'open door in the natural markets of Asia. am not unmlndful of the fact that in certain circles during the course of the last summer some doubts were entertain l ed as to the intentions of Japan re- | Rarding the maintenance of that prin- Icple in Manchuria which was then still under military occupation.
 T trust, however, that the sequence of events since has dispellec all sus- picion regarding the intention of the | Japanese Government to maintain the | principle of equal opportunity in Man T churia You may therefore. rest aS- sured that there is the best of com mercial reasons for the resolute de- fense and maintenance by Japan of that principle with which the name of John Hay is honorably connected.
 ''Turning to the moral reasons whicD should draw the two nations closer and closer, it should be observed that while the political institutions of tn: two counties widely differ In form yet that high sense of liberality, equality and justice which forms the ideal or the American national life Is also the guiding principle of Japan's political life.
 ."The love ot fair play which Is SO often referred to as a peculiarly Anglo" Saxon cbaracteristic. am proud to say, is also found In the blood of the Japanese people. It is, therefore. safe to say, that so long as the moral char. acter of the two peoples does not change, the commercial activities of the two people will be charasterized by that sense of fairness which Is, af- ter all, the best guarantee of peace in the intercourse of nations. no less than in the intercourse of individuals" R. F. ID. Appointments.
 II WashinRtou Dec, 17.-(Special. l--