Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-05-18
.KUROKI'S ENGLISH.
Mikado's War Chief Banquet
 ed at New York.
1.-THE WHOLE WORLD HONORSA HERO"
Japanese ConQueror of Russian Ar mics in Manchuria Has Five Words of Our Tonsue-Praises U. s.
 Grant to His Son.

tainment of the Japanese army and
 navy officers now in New York reached its climax last night in a banquet
 given in the grand ballroom of the Ho-
 tel Astor by prominent citizens of the
 city. The official guests of honor were
 Viscount Aoki, his imperial Japanese
 majesty's ambassador to the United
 States; General Baron Kuroki of the
 Japanese army and Vice Admiral Ijuin
 of the Japanese navy. Included with
 them were the members of General
 Kuroki's party and the officers of the
 Japanese cruisers Tsukuba and Chi tose. Admiral George Dewey, the sen
 for officer of the United States navy. presided.
 During the evening with long drawn cadences and peculiar rhythm was chanted the Japanese national anthem. while Admiral Dewey, General Baron
 Kuroki and Admiral Ijuin, with 600 other guests, joined in the singing.
 There were number of speakers at the banquet, including Oscar S. Straus, secretary of commerce and labor, who represented the federal government.
 The principal address was made by Secretary Straus, who after describing the ties of friendship binding Japan to this country declared that the Japanese were too wise to permit the San Fran cisco school incident (which was fos- tered by ignorance and propagated by injustice" to cloud their just apprecia- ton of the enlightened spirit of Ameri- can institutions.
 MT. Straus said in part:
 "'All mankind loves a lover,' and the whole world honors a hero, espe- cially if his laurels were won in just cause. France had her Napoleon, Eng land her Wellington, Germany her Moltke, America her Grant and has her Dewey, and Japan has her Kuroki. Self preservation is the first law of nations as well as of nature, and even those of us who took part in the great peace congress that only few weeks ago echoed its messages of hope from so many platforms must recognize the potency and necessity of that law of nations.
 ''More important than the limitation of armaments is to limit the causes of war, and this can best be done by in fusing into international relations the hypodermic solution of international morality.
 No country and no people in the his- tory of ancient or modern civilization has ever gone through more rapid renaissance than the island kingdom of Japan, and that is because this child of the worlds old age had been brought up by parents who had lived through centuries of development and civilization, which served her as springboard to leap within genera ton from out of her oriental slumbers to the front rank among nations.
 Japan alone among nations has glv- en the world an example of how peo- pie can throw off the shackles of an oppressive autocracy and endow itself with all the safeguards of liberty and justice under constitutional form of government without going through the terrible struggles and devastation of bloody revolutions by following along the paths of peaceful evolution.
 Japan, which has learned much from the west, has even more to teach the west. Persistency, self control antl preparedness are among her national qualities. Her officers exempllfy the highest skill united with the highest patriotism. Her soldiers, while reck- less in their bravery fin sacrificing their own lives. are uniformly humane even to their enemies, and no nation is serv- ed by a more competent diplomatic body. men of reliability. judgment and moderation. We heartily welcome her conquering hero. who has fought bat ties which will rank among the great est in history and whose army has never once met with defeat. What is the message that this great and mod est hero brings to usi Permit me to quote his own words: The Japanese people love peace and want peace. They fought for peace, which without fighting could not have been. My ma tion wants peace-peace fin which to develop. We have no other desire. The profession it is my fate to follow is nO- ble only in that 1t Is sometimes useful fin establishing conditions in which peace may be maintained and the arts of peace may flourish Nobler senti- ments never fell from the lips of q conquering hero. They will stand be. side those that were uttered by the hero of Appomattox. who said, let us have peace
 General KurOki. may the memory Of your glorious victories. which have 1. shed so much honor upon the armies 1 Of Japan. give to her people amending years Of peace. happiness and prosper 1 fly"
 This morning General Kuroki and . his party were guests of General Grant 1 at Governors island.
 General KurOki said to General i Grant:
 'I am delighted at the opportunity of ] conveying to his son my belief that | General L. s. Grant was one of the . finest military men inc world ever pro 1 duced Every schOOll,0y in Japan is taught something about him and his i work In war and in peace"
 The interpreter told the general that | Baron Kuroki had learned fire Ameri- | eaH wOrds-hHrrah, hello, eisar-r-r-r . and sank you. The general was shown I such portion of the harbor defenses as l the government felt at liberty tO show I