The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-11
Members of KurOki Party De-
clare Reports Are Absurd.
Trouble Is Due to a Few Dis
satisfied Persons.
WASHINGTON SERENE.
Relations Between This Country
and Japan Not Strained.
The JingO Element Is Said to
Be a Small Minority.

Seattle, Wash, June 11.-Reports
from Washington that there is a COM
plnatlon between the japanese of the
Northwest and the Progressive party
at home are discredited here by both
the japanese consul S. Hishimidzu
and Brigadier General o. E. Wood, who
Is here with the Kuroki party. The
former declared the report TO be alb
surd and without any foundation MI.
Yamaoka," the counsel declared, "i1as
always been 6 member of the Liberal
party and there is no reason why he
should enter into any combinat tiOn with
tne ffosresslves. Reports rave entire
~ InlsrepreSented the conference at
w ashlngton and again can do no good"
General Wood laughs at the idea of
any combination trying to bring on
war, and says that the trouble is due
TO the agitation of several dissatisfied
persons who thought they saw an op-
Portunity to make come noise; that
Japan does not want to go to war with
the United States
C. I. Tahahashi, who represented the
Seattle-Japanese society at Washington,
said:
The whole question is tco absurd
Tor comment. 1 can speak unqualihed-
ly on behalf of the business men and
merchants of the japanese race. War
Is not wanted and the trouble is due
to the agitation of a small party who
friendship that exists between the Uni
ted States and Japan"
Washington Is Undisturbcd.
Washington. June 1.-THE state de-
partment, in closer touch with the real
Japanese situation than any other
seeker after information is not in the
least disturbed either by lingo" pub
lications in Japanese newspapers or
the conspiracy between the japanese
in the United States and the Progress
To, - L
anese government. The relations be-
tween the two governments, it is said
officially, are not strained. nor does
there exist at present any cause of
friction from which serious trouble
may develop. In brief. the state de-
partment asserts that the talk of war
between the two countries comes en-
tirely from the opponents in Japan Of
the present government, and is there
fore not only irresponsible. but is
probably insincere.
Neither the officers of the state de-
partment nor the members of the Jap
anese embassy will discuss the situa-
ton for publication. They say, how
ever, that undue importance has been
attached to the recent visit here of
representatives of the Japanese socie-
ties upon the Pacific coast. These
representatives were earnestly desirous
of obtaining the support of the Jap
aneSe ambassador and the state de-
partment in their efforts to maintain
and other Pacific coast cities. But
that they were belligerent in their at
titude, or that they are interested in
fomenting war spirit between the two
countries, is generally denied.
Just now the Japanese lingo" ele-
ment is said to be force of doubtful
1t is a small minority
Of the Japanese people, and because il
is small is therefore extreme and in
cendiary in its utterances. That it
bases it's claim to popularity upon the
demand for aggressive action against
the United States forces the japanese
government to court the friendship of
this country with greater care than
might otherwise be exerted.
The impression created both by the
of state department officers
and representatives of the japanese
government here is that the so-called
of Japan are merely try
ing to attract attention to themselves.
and that were they to gain unexpected
strength or be placed in position
where their demands might be needed,
they would promptly modify the
character of their expressions.