The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-15
We're Not Drilling but Simply Co.
ing Home in Company After
Being Out Late.
ARE A PEACE LOVING PEOPLE
Nevertheless, They Have Been OBJ
served i'm Company Formation on
Different Occasions.

In reply to the article appearing
in yesterday mornings News con
cerning the Japanese actions as seer
by an employe of the News in the
early morning hours of the 18th O
this month, the following communi
cation was received by the editor
last night:
ely, New, Aug. IA, 1907. To the
Editor of the White Pine News:
Dear Sir-I take this opportunity
to drop you a few lines about youl
reported maneuvers of japanese al
dead of night near the wagon roat
leading from Ely to Ely City,
THE report surprised me so much
although | understood that it came
from unknown and unreliable re
surces. For myself, | am not work
ing for the company, such as report
ed in your issue of August Ia, and
am not staying with those Japanese
but | belong to Japan; so l can moi
be so Indifferent to overlook such
a unsupported proposition which will
have some influence to excite the
feelings of the people living in this
district against Japanese.
so I went to see those Japanese
boys VINO are working for the re-
ported company by your paper, and
inquired about it, but | could not
find so childish men who get up al
midnight and waste their labor
ariousness or any foolish children
want to get trained to keep steps
with other companions, as you re-
ported Instead of finding SO fool
ish men, found that some of those
men had good time in the town until
late that night and went back to
their places in companion.
when | was working on day shift
sometime l had to stay until SO late
in town for, my own business and
used to go home with some other
Japanese. In such case do you re-
port that we were training in antici-
patton of American-Japanese war in
the near future? Do you? | receive
two kinds of leading papers publish
ed in Japan, but l find no war talk
which you report will be the matter
of operation in the near future.
Americans believe that Japanese
are warlike people, but, on the con-
trary, we love peace; indeed, we like
to keep on tranquility in our diplo-
matte conditions with any other
countries. But when the independ-
ence or dignity of our country is
menaced, we never hesitate to fight
against any powers in the world, and
will fight to the last man and spend
last dollar. That is what we did
fight against China and Russia.
I'VE, Japanese, do not think that
our national dignity or the independ-
ence of our native country are men,
aced by the San Francisco question,
because it is not trouble existing be-
tween the U. S. A. and Japan The
question is entirely local. 1t is the
trouble between Japan and the State
of California, only a part of the
Great United States of America; and
we believe that it will be settled in
the way giving satisfaction to the
both countries.
do you think war is approach
ing? Here in the town of Ely are
no Japanese boys who were in the
services of Japanese army or navy.
DO you think that the Japanese Gov
ernment is so weakminded to give
any definite information or orders to
Japanese living in foreign countries
to praclice military drills in time
of peace, and while public voice of
Japan says peace! peace!
'If you will be fair enought to
publish this letter in your valuable
paper, all Japanese in this district,
not only myself. be obliged to
you. Your truly,
''HENh I Y. TAMAKI."
While the News did not in any
manner mean to state authoritively
the purposes of the Japanese in go
ing through their military drills, 1t
was an apparent fact that these men
were drilling, and the reason thereof
could best be explained by the men
that participated. The writer of the
above letter asks: .'Do you report
that we were training in anticipation
of American-Japa war in the
near future?"
The News reported the fact that
they were going through these man.
euvers and that alone, at the same
time giving the above as a possible
reason for these drills.
He asks: DO you think that war
is approaching?"
We cannot state with truthfulness
that we know thai such is the case,
hut according to a later statement
that the government of Japan would
not be so foolish as to have these
men training at the present time, he
lets fall doubt but that these men
nevertheless might be training for
such an emergency, or at least that
the Japanese might consider such a
possibility.
We do not intend to criticise these
men for their actions, nor do we in
tend to let a matter of this kind pass
unnoticed, when the majority OF
American newspaper readers are de-
pending upon their paper to furnish
them with the various events of the
day.
'Tf you will be fair enough to
simply their method of walking
home together, it is well, but if any
other intentions accompanied such
actions, the News will publish what
ever can be leaned concerning the
same.
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