Bisbee daily review., 1907-04-20
ROOT ON JAPANESE
 TREATY
Before American Society of h. ternational Law He Treats Question Touching On San Francisco School Row.

/ WASHINGTON, D. C., April 19.-At the first annual meeting of the Ameri- can Society of International Law, in session here today, Secretary Root de- livered an address on the subject of Cne real questions under the Japanese treaty and the San Francisco schoool board resolution
 After discussing at length the legal phases of the treaty, MT. Root said:
 There was one great and serious question underlying the whole subject which made all questions of construc- tion and of scope and of effect of the treaty itself-all questions as to wheth- CT the claims of Japan were well founded or not; all questions as to whether the resolution of the school board was valid or not-seem tempo rary and comparatively unimportant It was not a question of war witl Japan. All the foolish talk about wal was purely sensational and imagina, tive. There was never even friction between the two governments. The question was, What state of feeling would be created between the great body of the people of the United States and the great body of the peo-
  ment given to the Japanese in this country?
 What was to be the effect upon that proud sensitive, highly civilized peo- pie across tie Pacific, of the discour- tesy, insult, imputations of inferiority and abuse aimed at them in the col umns of American newspapers and from the platforms of American pub lie meetings? What would be the eff feet on our own people of the re- sponses that natural resentment for such treatment would elicit from the Japanese?
 The first article of the first treaty Japan ever made with a western power provided:
 There shall be a perfect, perma- nent, and universal peace and a sin cere and cordial amity between the United States of America on the one part, and the empire of Japan on the other part, and between their people respectively. without exception of per sons or places
 Under that treaty. which bore the signature of Matthew Calbraith Perry, we introduced Japan to the world of western civilization We had always been proud of her wonderful develop ment-proud of the genius of the race that in single generation adapted an ancient feudal Aystem of the far east to the most advanced standards of modern Europe and America. The friendship between sethe two nations had been peculiar and close. Was the declaration of that treaty to be set aside? At Kurihama, Tn Japan, stands monument to Commodore Perry, raised by the Japanese in grateful ap- preciatiOn, upon the site where he landed and opened negotiations for the treaty. Was that monument hence fogth to represent dislike and resent ment? Were the two peoples to face each other across tn Pacific in fu- ture years with angry and resentful feelings? All this was inevitable if the process which seemed to have be- gun was to continue, and the govern ment of the United States looked with the greatest solicitude upon the possi- bility that the process might continue.
 Tt is hard for democracy to learn the responsibility of it's power, but the people now, not governments, make friendship or dislike, sympathy or discord, peace or war, between na- tions. In this modern day, through the columns of the myriad press and messages flashing over countless wires. multitude calls to multitude across boundaries axd oceans in cour- tesy or insult, in amity or defiance Foreign offices and ambassadors and ministers 10 longer keep or break the peace, but the conduct of each people toward every other. The people who permit themselves to treat the people of other countries with discourtesy and insult are surely sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind, for world of sul- len and revengeful hatred can never be a world of peace. Against such feeling treaties are waste paper and diplomacy the empty routine of idle form. The great question which over shadowed all discussion of the treaty of 1894 was the question: Are the people of the United States about to break friendship with the people of Japan? That question. I believe. has been happily answered in the mega tive"