Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-02-14
ENVOY IN PEACE TALK
AoM Brings Message of Goed
viii From Mikado.
GOV. HUGHES ON DUTY
Business Men Should Help Him in
Making Good Administration.
MIR. SMITH FOR PROTECTION
Some Notable Addresses at the Dinner
of the Silk Association in
New York.
MIR. SMITH FOR PROTECTION

NEW YORK, February 14.-Viscount
Sinzo Aoki, japanese ambassador to the
United States. WIS guest of the MEM
beers OF the Silk Association of America
at their thirty-fifth annual dinner at Del
monico's. The ambassador spoke of the in
innate commercial relations of Japan and
the United States and bespoke a contin-
uance of the friendly relations Of the two
countries.
Another guest at the dinner was William
Alden Smith Of Michigan, who only yester-
day took the oath of office of United States
senator Mr.. Smith spoke loudly in praise
of protection, and the members of the Silk
Association expressed their approval by
cheering After referring to the friendship
that exists between Japan and the United
States, he expressed, not only in his IN
dividual but in his official capacity, as he
said the sincere hope that no local AMI
mostly may disturb the peace that reigns
between the oriental empire and our own
country.
A Business Administration.
Gov Hughes told the diners that the bust
ness men of New York could have busi-
ness administration of the public affairs at
Albany If they would insist upon 1t and
each one do his small part.
criticisms the business life of the country
was wholesome and sweet; that men, for
the most part, desired to transact business
in correct way, and that the STANDARDS
were good. However, he added, there was
great need for each business man, when
criticising his neighbors or other industries
than his own, to ask himself: Am my
self hewing to the line of rectitude which
draw for my neighbour"
President Joseph w. Congdon. In intro.
duo fha ambassador
the hospitality and cordially OF the Japa-
nese as he saw it upon visit to japan as
an American manufacturer. and said that
he hoped ViScOunt Aoki would be led to
feel at all times during his ambassadorial
service in the United States that he was
among true friends.
The ambassador in his Introduction took a
brief retrospect of the growth of trade be-
tween Japan and the United States. The
only other countries on the American CONT
nent besides the United States which had
trade relations with Japan, he said, were
Canada, Mexico and Peru. The export
trade of Japan to the United States he
said, had increased in the last thirty-two
years practically twenty-three fold, While
the increase of the import to Japan from
the United States had been one hundred
times.
"Such," he said 'is the history of the
growth of an international commerce which,
thanks to the indefatigable spirit OF enter
prise and the indomitable courage OF the
Japanese people, was built up within our
own lifetime from nothing to a respectable
sum of more than 19S, 100000 of yen year
Satisfactory as the past history OF this
commerce is he continued, sit is my ear
nest hope that the American people and my
own countrymven will unite in their efforts
to further accelerate the development OF
this international trade, the benefits OF
which so evenly Snareu Dy Japan anu
the United States.
Toast to Japan.
The same enthusiastic cheering that had
greeted the mention of the name of the
Japanese ambassador by the POSTMASTER
followed his speech, and then the SILK men
drank toast to the empire of Japan.
Senator William Alden Smith told the
silk men that he came from what was
once the wild and woolly west" but which
was now the ''silky west" He mentioned
his twelve years of service in the House Of
Representatives, and then referred to the
occasion as being the evening before the
birth of Lincoln. At the mention of the
name of Lincoln the diners cheered for sew
eraI minutes Senator Smith spoke a
brief eulogy of Lincoln. Referring to the
vast accumulation of wealth in the United
States, he said: -.
1T is due in my judgment to the policy
of our government, policy Whlcn was
supposed to be exclusive when 1t began
vet which has worked out to the advantage
of the world 1 ascribe the phenomenal
prosperity and phenomenal credit OF Amer
lea to the principle of protection to Amerl-
can industries and American labor. Men
speak of it who have given it no investi-
CATION, but long after the criticism has
passed away. long after experiments nave
been tried, the principles Of American In
dependence and American success in every
walk of American life will speak in stem
torian tones for the maintenance of our
policy of protection .t-. -~---.-