Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-15
JAPAN IS OUR FRIEND UNIVERSITY Of DUBLIN
Ambassador OBrien Does Not Greatest Coeducaona ns
Doubt Empires Sincerity. tuition in the United Kingdom.
THE PEOPLE LIKE AMERICA WOMEN GRANTED DEGREES
Absurd They Are Placed the Same Foot
With United States ing as Men.
WOULD LIMIT EMIGRATION ARTS THE FAVORED CLASSES
for ASH Pending
Restraining Coolies. lsh Parliament
Ambassador O'Brien Does Not
Doubt Empires Sincerity.
THE PEOPLE LIKE AMERICA
Absurd That Island Nation Wants
War With United States.
WOULD LIMIT EMIGRATION
japanese Government Seeks to Avoid
Cause for Friction With Wash
ington by Restraining Coolies.

| SAN FRANCISCO. July 15.-Thomas
O'Brien the American ambassador to
Japan, arrived here yesterday from
Toxic on the Pacific Mail liner Korea.
Ambassador O'Brien, who was formerly
United States minister to Copenhagen,
is on q leave Of absence, to attend to
business matters in Europe. He will
| leave for the east Thursday morning,
stopping a week at his home in Grand
Rapids, Mich. and then proceed to New
York
In an interview with representative
of the Associated Press. Ambassador
O'Brien said that any suspicion that
might be harbored in this country in
regard to Japan's sincerity In maintain
Ing peace with the United States and In
its expressions of amity and good will
was without any cause or ground to
Justify it.
No Sign of Ill-Feeling.
II have been In Japan less than a
year. and that is a short time to become
familiar with the real sentiment and
conditions in an alien country whose
language you do not speak, said Mr..
OBrien, but in that time I have never
seen the slightest sign of ill-feeling
toward America or Americans. 1t is
absurd to think that Japan wants war
with this country. Nothing is further
from the mind Of its people.
Il believe that Japan is sincerely try
Ing to enforce the restriction of emf
grafton to America and thus remove
any cause for friction on that question
considering the pressure that is
brought upon the government by steam
ship companies and others whose reve
nue. has been affected by the restriction
M orofc nir,O
all 1t can under the circumstances to
prevent coolie labor from coming to
America.
when I left there was much talk of
the arrival of the American fleet. 1t is
looked forward to with much pleasure
and interest, and great preparations are
being made to entertain the officers and
men. and the entire Japanese navy will
review"
Door Open or ShutP
Touching upon the complaints made
that American merchants were being dis
eliminated against in Manchuria in the
matter of rates on the Manchurian rail-
way, which is controlled by the Japa-
nese, Ambassador OBrien said that he
knew nothing personally about it be-
yond reports that came through the en-
bassy.
Inc japanese, controlling the Manchu-
rian railway. are favoring their own coun-
trymen by giving rebates, is probably
true. just as 1t is true that rebating
was practiced in this country. 1 do not
think, --oWever. that Americans are being
Disseminated against because they are
Americans, but rather that the biggest
shippers. which are the Japanese, get the
lower rates.
Ambassador O'Brien was much interest
ed In the change of ministry and the
retirement of the cabinet headed by Mar
quis Saionji, which ACQUIRED after his
departure from Toxic, although rumored
before he sailed
Katsura Strong Man.
Count Katsura, the new premier. is
undoubtedly the strongest and most pop
ular man with the people that the govern
ment could have selected to organize a
new ministry" said the ambassador
Asked about the financial and CONNER
cial conditions in Japan, the ambassa
dor said that he was not well enough
versed In them to give an opinion.
He denied that he was on a mission
to make a verbal report to President
Roosevelt, and he declared that he would
not call upon the President at Oyster
Bay unless requested by him to do so.
Ambassador O'Brien will sail from New
York for Brussels. where he will meet
Mrs. OBrien and after attending to
some business affairs will return to Toxic
via ST. Petersburg and the Siberian rail-
road, arriving at Toxic the first week
In October. just d few days before the
American fleet.