Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-02-08
ASPIRATIONS OF JAPAN
Trade Alliance With America
Almost Assured, Says Kaneko.
JLAIMs THAT NO RIVALRY EXISTS

The Baron Ayers Japanese Will
Gladly Welcome Commerce with
Us-"NIore to the Eagle Than the
Feathers Which Clothe That Bird"
Says Mikado's Envoy-Not to Send
His People Here.
"Ihere Is more to the American eng,e
than the feathers which clothe that no.
Die bird. The American eagle when she
stretches her wings might touch one
tip on England and the other tip on
Japan"
So said Baron Kentaro Kaneko to a
New York Herald reporter a little
while before he left New York the
other day.
"This sinile," continued the baron,
rs one that l hope the American PEG
pie will take seriously. We have an al
lance for trade with England. We
have an alliance in good fellowship
and earnest good will with America.
Why should we not have a commercial
alliance with the United States! Why
should not the tip Of the wing Of the
eagle, which reaches to the Philippines,
reach to Japan?"
"Why," asked the reporter, should
there be a. alliance, do you think"
Because there is every reason to &C.
c%entuate it. Because Japan is not a
competitor with the United States.
"We Of Japan try to think and act.
We have acted in the last year. We
not through thinking; also we are not
through acting"
"What will happen? Do you think
there is any prospect that the United
States will become a monarchy, or will
It stay indefinitely as 1t is, a republic?'
1.-THE United States will always be a
democratic republic. The only mon
archy or autocracy that is possible in
he United States Is al oligarchy."
"And Japan"
Japan will never be a republic. ia
pan today is as near a republic as any
constitutional monarchy can be except
England. England thinks it is a mon
archy, but it is not. England is a re-
public. There is quite as much Of the
tree eagle, of the soaring eagle, in Eng
land as there Is in America. In Eng
and they have a king. In America you
10 not need one"
SIS there a possibility, do you think,
If a trade alliance between the United
States and Japan"
cit is better than a possibility. 1
nope that it is almost assured. Japan
stands with open arms to the, United
States. 1t is up to the United States,
70 use one Of your expressions, to
make good"
"Does the mikado, or the emperor
rather, personally feel an inclination
toward encouraging trade with the
United States?"
II have not the right to speak for
he emperor. But personally I am sure
that he does. / am also sure that ev-
cry intelligent Japanese will be only
200 glad Of a commercial arrangement
between the United States and Japan.
We have come to know the United
States. We have learned to know the
hlucl GU DCOplC fC1y u1uCu DCICCL
han we ever knew them before. Since
he days Of Commodore Perry Japan
las been a sort of side issue in Il
commercial and diplomatic sense to
he United States. I realize that the
side issue phase is over. / realize
that Japan is now a world power. I
think that the people Of the United
~, toc olc0 ,ooJioo Tho ~ 4,i,~
eve want Japan to hold her place
proudly and distinctly with the other
powers Of the world. We realize and
appreciate the kindness that the Amer
can people have expressed toward ia
pan. I think 1 can see an era Of glori-
JUS prospects. Our flag, you know, is
hat Of the rising sum-. 1t rose. several
years ago and dropped. 1t has now
risen again."
viii Japan now make an effort to
encourage emigration to the United
States, do you think?"
Japan never makes m effort to send
%:olonists where her flag does not fly.
Japan never encourages emigration TO
any spot in the world that is not a
jdpdueSc COlOuy. 1udl IS WHY hOItd
and southern Manchuria give an out
let for superfuous population. We
lave, according to the reports Of last
year, 100000 more people than we had
he year before. Those people must
90 somewhere. Formosa, Manchuria
and Korea are 10Y happily the safety
valves Of Nippon. We have q place to
let off steam.
"There is still Il certain section of
Japan to be populated, the northern
Tart. 1t is hard work to send colonists
up there In that barren region. l refer
10 Yeddo. 1t is hard, cold and sterile.
It is not attractive. We have never
been able to crowd our extra popula-
ton In that direction. Pioneers are
much the same, whether they are from
New England OF whether they are
from Tokyo. They want and need fer
tile fields and a kind climate. Yeddo
foes not give them that"
"But America does"