The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-14
JAPAN IS RRITATED
AND 0RIEvED BY THE BATTIEsHIP TALk-INOPPORTUNE AND
 TACTLESS,
Fresident Roosevelt Accused of Playing Domestic Politics at the Expense of an Entirely Friendly
 Government.
Washington Special to New York Evening

Washington Special to New York Evening
 Post.
 President Roosevelt, if he SO desires, Is able to learn through channels closed to the general public precisely what are the real sentiments of the Japanese Government to- ward the proposal that . fleet of sixteen American battleships be concentrated in Pacific waters. If he has made such inqui- ries disresardins the public statements of Ambassador Aoki which were made simply for publication and not as an evidence of good faith. he will have learned that the Government of Japan is annoyed and irri- tated at the scheme for . garish naval dis play in the Pacific at this inopportune tuncture He wil have learned, too. that the reasons ascribed by Japanese and other foreign governments for this movement do little credit to him as the head of a great nation.
 Since 1t became known. through the sin gular sequence of contradictory and evasive utterances at Oyster Bay. and from the Secretary of the Navy at Oakland. that the Administration really contemplated massing all the availbale battleships in the Pacific Ocean. foreign embassies in this country have been assiduously engaged in endeavor- ing to find out the real meaning for such a movement and the real sentiments of Ja- pan towards such demonstration. Here an attempt Is made to sum up their inn pressions as derived from trustworthy sources.
 Japan is both sorry and irritated that any such contemplated movement O. battle ships should have become public at this time. The government of Japan regards the dissemination of the news of the fleet move ment at this time inopportune and tact les< and as giving the 'jingoes" of both countries a basis on which to indulge in further wild talk of war. The news makes it infinitely more difficult for the Govern
 vnt, l,v and sanely to relieve the tensions in California.
 The embassies do not believe that the President has any warlike intent in dis patching a great fleet of battleships to the Pacific, but they do believe that he Is en- gagged in the unworthy occupation of em- ploying international pawns in domestic pol itics His motive for playing this danger ous game they believe to lie in 6 lurking desire on his part to continue himself in of flee and make imperative his nomination for third term.
 The Japanese deprecate the sending of a great fleet to the Pacific, as . move in domestic politics. They resent being made |. the objective of a move which sets the whole world chattering and gossiping about war, and which they believe has for it's un- deriving motive the upholdins of the polit- ical fortunes of President Roosevelt and his friends They do not like the idea of having the "big stick" waved in. their
  perpetuated. They may be wholly wrong in their surmises but at least this is what they believe and suspect. Diplomats regard 1t as a very dangerous game that the Presf- dent is playing. They intimate he runs tho risk of stirring up something some day that he will be unable to quell.
 Perhaps 1t would not be going too far to say that the Japanese government has be- come distrustful of the President. His sud den change of front on the question of the Japanese school children in San Francisco last winter gave them cause. Since that time they have been wondering how sincere were his warm protestations of friendship and his eulogies In his message to Con gress of the Japanese character.
 Let it be repeated again that the Japanese do not suspect this country of an intention of making war They arc irritated at what they deem the Presidents tactlessness in talking of sending a fleet to the Pacific at a time when 1t can do nothing but aio the irresponsible manufacturers of war talk and because they believe that 1t will make more difficult the relieving of the friction between the races in California.
 Evidence Is accommodating that the basis for a great part of the war talk in the Jap. anese newspapers and in the United States Is being deliberately manufactured by asent' of the oposition to the government in Japan Some of these agents are in this country They telegraph out to Japan bellfcose utter ances in the irresponsible newspapers anc see that inflammatory speeches and writings in Japan and the Japanese press are trans mitted a this country.