Los Angeles herald., 1909-02-13
JAPANESE PAYS
LINCOLN EULOGY
BARON TAKAHIRA DELIVERS
IMPRESSIVE ADDRESS
ORIENTAL ORATOR is AWARDED
GENEROUS WELCOME
Exercises at Peoria Made Exceptional
by Asiatic Diplomat ExtoIIinG Vir-
tues of Americans Dead
and Living
IBy Associated Press.l


nis country entertained the most friend
ly and grateful sentiments toward the
United States and that such a thing IS
war between this country and Japan
was an impossibiIity, Baron Takah1ra,
the Japanese ambassador to the United
States, delivered the principal address
tonight at the Creve Couer clubs ban
Quet in honor of the centennial of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln.
Charles Magoon, former provisional
governor of Cuba; Curtis Guild, jr,
governor of Massachusetts, and Prof.
John Clark Freeman were the other
speakers.
Ambassador Takahira was enthusias-
ticdlly received. In his address he gave
a brilliant eulogy of the life of the
great emancipation from foreign point
of view, concluding a tribute to the
golden rule of diplomacy as eXemplif1ed
by Lincoln and Hay.
In this category of statesmen he
placed Theodore Roosevelt, owing to
the presidents efforts to stave off anti
japanese legislation on the Pacific
coast.
"LincoIn's Diplomacy"
'Those who learned to admire Lin
coins method of diplomatic transac-
tions," said the speaker, ''called it Lin
coins diplomacy'-the diplomacy that
United States when she still remained
in a. less important position and under
very adverse circumstances.
''Mr John HAY, who was once Presi-
dent Lincoln's private secretary, said
in speaking of American diplomacy:
The briefest expression Of our rule of
conduct is perhaps the Monroe doctrine
and the golden rule
1.-The history of the diplomatic rela-
tions between the United States and
Japan and other far eastern countries
is replete with every description of the
friendly acts taken by this country that
might be considered as an application
of the golden rule, and there is every
season to believe that such application
of the golden rule in your diplomacy
with those countries is being acknowl-
edged by the adoption of the same rule
in their diplomacy toward you.
Now let me make a few remarks
here about our relations in order to
show you how the golden rule has been
observed between the two countries.
and also why it must be observed.
''I have necessarily to begin with the
remarkab BILE success of Commodore Per-
rvs mission, which was sent to Japan
some half century ago in order to open
and introduce into the community OF
nations the country which was then
only terra incognito. Not speaking of
IIS great QCUl VI dI1IudC OclPcAAA Wv -
to the United States for her friendly
introduction into the international COM
munity, it is a noteworthy fact that
the American government has been
particularly careful in the selection Of
it's representatives in Japan in order
to accomplish what has been left for
them to do by Perry's mission.
Friendship Assured
Townsend Harris, your first minis
ter to Japan, was especially remark
able as a man of large heart and broad
mind. It was through such friendly at
titude taken by the American repre-
sentatives, of course, supported by the
government, that the American people
are deeply endeared to ours, and we,
want to reciprocate what has been done
for us.
1--WE have never had any idea for a
moment of displeasing your people,
much less wagir1g war against you. Il
is for this reason that when displeas-
ure was manifested in this country ir
regard to the Japanese immigration we
readily consented to the adjustment of
the question, under certain conditions,
by limiting the immigration of labor
ers to the minimum number, and as a
consequence it has been greatly re-
duced, notably since last July, and it is
found during the latter half of 1908 the
number of Japanese immigrants who
returned to Japan from continental
United States was larger than the num-
Der of those who arrived in this country
by 2100. The number of those who re-
turned to Japan from the Hawaiian
islands was also in excess of those who
arrived there from Japan by 1900
while it is not certain how long this
condition will continue, it is possible
that every half year hereafter for some
years will witness the decrease of
Japanese residents in this country in
about the same proportion.
Again, when there was apprehen-
sion of misunderstanding arising be-
tween us in regard to the trade marks,
copyrights and other matters of kim
dred nature on the Asiatic continent,
the two governments at once opened
negotiations and concluded conventions
with the view to protect our mutual
interests in this regard.
1--WE also signed a treaty for the gen
eral arbitration of controversies be-
tween the two countries, and lastly. we
exchanged, a few months ago. a dec
1aration defining the policy of the two
governments in China and in the Pa
cific ocean with a view to encouraging
the free and peaceful development If
the commerce of the two nations ana
also to preserve the general peace in
that region.
Thus we have been using every eff
fort not only to remove all possible
causes of misunderstanding and con-
fiict between the two countries. but to
bring about clear and definite IN
derStanding between the two countries
in order to cement the closest bonS Of
friendship and good neighborliness.
The speaker concluded with a tribute
to President Roosevelt.
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