Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-02-04
kOMURA PLEDGES
PEACE TO JAPAN
Foreign Minister Outlines Policy
of Government - HattOri
Makes Bitter Attack.
WASHINGTON MUCH CONCERNED
Jap Question Absorbs Interest of AID.
Observation-Disclosures Tones
Down Resolution.

Tokyo, Feb. 3.-Speaking before the
lower house of the diet yesterday,
Foreign Minister Komura outlined
the foreign policies of Japan in a
carefully worded speech delivered be-
fore a full and attentive house. The
opening sentence gave the keynote of
the entire speech, when Count Komu-
"a said:
THE foreign policy of this empire
should have as an object the mainte-
nance of peace and the development
Of national resources"
The foreign minister's speech was
received with applause by the gov
eminent side of the house, but Count
HattOri, an opposition member, imme-
diately began a bitter and sensational
attack on the foreign policy of the
government. He said that Japan had
no determined foreign policy and that
this was shown by her present atti-
tude toward America, where Japa-
nese were denied an equal oppOrtu-
nifty and were even abused by Ameri-
cans.
Attack on Recent Agreement.
The recent events, he said, had
proved that the anti-Japanese senti-
ment in America had not subsidized.
The speaker attacked particularly the
recently concluded agreement be-
tween Japan and America, saying he
believed the Japanese foreign Office
was forced by the American govern
ment to sign the agreement in order
to prevent competition by the Japa-
nese on the Pacific coast. He de-
clared that Japan's dignity had been
injured thereby, and he passionately
urged the government to enforce the
principle of equal opportunity which
alone would solve the question of the
rights of Japanese in foreign coun-
tries. He said that even the presi-
dent of one country had denied Japa-
nese the right to travel, right which
was theirs by treaty.
Administration Concerned.
Washington, Feb. 8. - No single
question nor, indeed, any group of
questions, is absorbing the interest
and concern of the administration at
this moment to the same extent as
certain of the phases of the anti-Jap-
anese agitation in California. The
president has been in communication
with many reputable persons, who
should be thoroughly informed as to
the conditions on the Pacific coast.
1t is admitted that a systematic agi-
tat1On was in progress on the coast,
but a significant feature of it's lack of
leaders had taken no prominent part
in it. Indeed it has been stated to
the administration that the real main
spring of the agitation was to be
found in some Of the great corpora
lions that had found their profitable
business of coolie transportation
threatened with destruction by the
success attending the efforts of the
administration to stop this class of
immigration
The administration is much pleased
with the tone of the speech of Pre-
mier KOmura in the japanese diet
yesterday, SO far as it touched upon
the relations between America and
Japan.
President Not Censured.
Carson City, New, Feb. 3. The
anti-Japanese resolution that was in
troduced in the assembly Monday was
shorn of it's vindictive points yester-
day afternoon
Assemblyman Folsom, when the
resolution came up for reading, had a
number of amendments which were
read and adopted unanimously, these
eliminating all reference to the presi-
dent.