Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-04
URGES JAPANESE
TO BE FRIENDLY
WITH UNCLE SAM
SECRETARY KNOX SUGGESTS
SETTLEMENT
COMPULSORY AGREEMENT WITH
U. S. SOLICITED
Cabinet Official Invites Oriental Rep
resentatives to Enter Into Adjust
ment of All Tangles Between
the Two Nations
IBy Assoclated Press.l

H1 ASHINGTON, Nov. 3.-Secretary
! w Knox tonight invited Japan to
! enter into a compact making
practically compulsory peaceful set
tlement of all difficulties with the
United States.
The secretary's invitation was not
in the form of state document. 1t
was suggestion to the japanese com
mercial. commissioners in an address
by Mr.. Knox tonight at banquet Civ
en- In honor of the visitors from the
mikado's land.
After proposing a toast to the em-
peror of Japan, Mr.. Knox said:
Baron Shibusawa and honorable
commissioners: 1t is my privilege and
great pleasure to welcome you to
Washington on behalf of this govern
ment and to express the sincese hope
that your journeyings and observations
and entertainments have been and Will
continue to be comfortable, profitable
and agreeable.
This is an opportunity of which /
gladly avail to speak of ties W II
have contributed to unite our two ma
tions in amIty and essential harmony
ever since the days when, to Ameri-
can representatives first of all, you
opened your doors for the reciprocal
exchange of goodwill and civilization
and trade.
1--WE have learned from you as you
from us. We admire you for all of
your national gifts and virtues and
not the least for those qualities In
which you differ from us, or the emf
nent qualities drawn from a long and
glorious past, through which you must
teach and we must learn.
'It is your word "Bushido' that ex-
! presses the source and inspiration of
much of the strength and nobility Of
| the Japanese temperament. Then let
western chivalry which also looks back
to lofty origins learn what eastern
'bushido' has to teach.
Common Ties
Because of these ties between us,
! we sometimes share a common gr.ef
and mourning This country mourns
with you the untimely, cruel death OF
the great Prince Ito which to those
among us, like the president, who knew
J him as a personal friend, was deep
| personal loss.
"He was Justly a hero in Japan,
great man, a. noble, self-sacrificing
natriot. a statesman of mastery con-
! structive ability. His career is the his
tory of new Japan, of the Japan which
is now one of the great modern powers
of the world
"a gifted Englishman of letters has
told fine story of the career and work
,of the Yoshida, whose pupil Prince Ito
! was. and describing Yoshida's lnten-
| sity of patriotic virtue, has used Ian
guage which well describes Ito him
! self. He hoped, perhaps, to get the
| good of other lands without their evil;
| to-enable Japan to profit by the knowl-
edge of the barbarions and still keep
her inviolate with her own arts ana
| virtues.
rs it too much to say that such
hopes of the great minds of Japan are
in the way of realization? Japan mas
! set herself in that path, and every
friendly and generous heart believes
she will keep the faith and hopes she
will attain her goal.
commerce, exchange markets, trade
extensions-these are the fields IN
which the friendly commercial rivalry
now proceeding between the American
and Japanese peoples find expression.
Each. indeed, furnishes wide market
for the other, and beyond their respec-
tive boundaries they engage in this
friendly trade competition for the Varl-
ous markets of the world, and will con-
tinue so to engage.
Modern Movement
"But the great modern movement of
accord and good understanding be-
tween nations are, after all, the lotty
achievements and the crown of all IN
ternational relations.
1.-THE controlling principle of these
movements is peaceful and beneficial
intercourse and the peaceful settlement
by arbitration of differences and con-
Notwithstanding that principle by
friendly diplomacy as rapidly as pos
| sible to embrace an increasing NUMBER
and variety of disputes, and ultimately,
by voluntary international compacts,
making peaceful settlements of all diff
ferences compulsory, or practically So
"I am confident you will agree 1t is
altogether in accordance with the nom
orable and enlightened attitude, both
of Japan and the United States, and
that it should be the aim of true
craftsmanship to continue to keep
abreast of these beneficient movements
in which they have borne so dlstin-
guished a part.
"Thus the long unbroken friendship
of the United States and Japan, of
which your visit and this occasion are
such happy symbols, and the laudable
common purpose of Japan and the
United States to respect each others
rights and with frankness, patience
and good temper to adjust such differ
| ences as inevitably arise even between
nations of sympathetic and common
purposes will be exemplars which will
bear fruit and aid in the gradual real
ization of the noblest ideals for the
unity, concord and prosperity of the
world"