The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-07
MAKES EN- TIRED.
Officials at Washington Weary
of Japan's Complaints.
Gave the Matter More Attention
Than 1T Deserved.
THINK WE ARE SCARED
The MikadO's People Misunder-
stand the Situation.
No Other Nation Would Fuss
About Such Trifles.
THINK WE ARE SCARED


Chicago. June IA dispatch to the
Tribune from Washington says:
| There is beginning to be manifested
here a distinct feeling of irritation
against an apparent disposition on the
part of certain people in Japan to mag
nifty molehills into mountains and to
persist in an endeavor to precipitate
trouble between this country and Japan.
For months the state department has
been extremely tender of the suscepti-
blIltles of the Japanese. Ever since the
president went out of his way to settle
! the school question in California which
was, strictly speaking, entirely beyond
the province of the federal government
there has been a manifest disposition on
the part of certain public men in Japan
10 crltlc1Se the United States and to
complain about all sorts of little things.
The Japanese consul in San Francisco
and the ambassador in Washington are
perfectly well aware that conditions ex-
lSt In San Francisco which are wholly
unusual, and are beyond control of the
state authorities, to say nothing of the
nation.
In spite of this, reports continue to
come from Japan like the cabled inter-
view with Count Okuma, in which refer
ence is made in serious fashion to the
anti-Japanese outrages in San Francis
co. The government here is becoming
annoyed at these repeated complaints
about petty crimes and insults against
the Japanese. They have the same
rights in San Francisco that Americans
have. There is a growing belief that
the japanese at home and abroad have
mfsconstrued the attitude of the federal
government. Courtesy and cOnSidera-
ton for friendly nation induced the
president and secretary Of state to go
infinitely farther than they would have
gone had a European country been in
volved. Apparently the Japanese have
Interpreted this as weakness or even as
fear on the part of the United States.
All reports from San Francisco indi-
cate that the latest alleged 'outrages'
there are extremely minor incidents of
the genral riot which has come about
as a result of the paralysis of the city
government The wrecking of a bath
house and restaurant during the time of
the riot would not be considered an in
ternational incident by any of the great
European powers.
The pettinesS of recent complaints on
the part of the Japanese coupled with
the fact that immigrants from that
country are pouring over our borders in
defiance of our laws, is making many of
our government officials extremely
tired.
If complaints and protests and de-
nunciations of corner fights and barroom
rows seem to be continued with the con-
sent of the Japanese government, some
body here in Washington may take oc-
casion to hint to the japanese ambassa-
dor or to the Toxic government that the
American people are cOnSiderate and
courteous to all nations but that there
is limit to their patience, which seems
to be nearly reached at the present time
Hostile Talk for Home Consumption.
New York. June THE Herald's
correspondent at Toxic cables that
Count Okuma's lingo" utterances and
hostility to the United States are re-
garded by Japan's leading statesmen as
principally for home consumption and
part of the progressive party's efforts
to overthrow the present ministry in
the interest of Admiral YamamotO, the
navy minister in the last cabinet, who
that the recall of Viscount Aoki. am
bassador to the United States. is also
one of the progressive plans. They
desire a more aggressive" representa-
tive at Washington and Baron Kaneko
is mentioned as his successor.
"tCount Okuma is out of politics,
the comment concludes, "and is re-
garded as a Japanese Tolstoy."
According to the correspondent,
Foreign Minister Hayashi declares the
japanese and American governments
are at one in their views and there is
no likelihood of international compli-
vices not yet brought before the cabi-
net.
Count Itagaki, one of the foremost
of the elder statesmen and leader in
the former Okuma-Itagaki cabinet, the
dispatch adds, has written an open
letter to the president of The Hague
urging international con-
sideration of the exclusion question.
He says race differences often cause
war, and that exclusion is entirely
contrary to the principle of mutual
and can not be permitted.
From the viewpoint of humanity, he
saws. The Hague conference should in
augurate an international conference. |
Objects to Restriction on Emigration.
Toxic, June IA representative of
the Japanese residents in America, ar |
rived here recently and called upon |
the foreign minister, Viscount Hay |
asIi He has reported that the latter |
assured him that the proposal made |
by the American government to enter |
into a mutual agreement for the re-
striction of labor emigration would be |
rejected by Japan and that every ef-
fort would be made to expunge the
asst clause Of article 2, of the present
-reaty when it comes up for revision
N 1909, but that it was not expected |
hat America would yield easily on
his point
A special commissioner will prob
lbly be dispatched to America to in
restigate the actual conditions pre-
railing there.
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