The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-12-07

treating the Japanese as their friends.
This feeling should be reeiprocated bv
| the japanese in some way. The two
| nations can help each other to their
| mutual advantage. His advice to all
! japanese is to live on the most friend
| ~ terms with the people among whom
| they are residing.
If Citizens, Be Good Citizens.
K. Midzuno, Consul General of Japan
| at New York. on learning of Editor
| Sheba s advocacy Of an amalgama+ion
| Of the races in Hawaii. agreed fully
with that policy. During a converse
| ton in the afternoon, Mr.. Sheha told
| him that the wage question was settled
and it no longer exists. Mr.. Sheha in
formed him that his paper. the Hawaii
Stinpe. intended to work for the as
sanitation of the races in Hawaii. The
japanese children, who are to be piven
the right to vote when they are of age.
must be thoroughly Amerieanized and
American in their ideas and in their
loyalty to the Stars and Stripes. They
should not enjoy the franchise and at
the same time be Japanese subjects
at heart. They must throw off allie
glance to Japan and be Americans in
spirit when they enjoy the full rights
of citizenship. They must be severed
from their mother country in the same
way as English, Germans. French or
any other nationality. These people
become Americans at heart. Only
under such conditions can the Japa-
nese be expected to be treated like
citizens. Mr.. Sheba said that this
would be the policy of the Shinpo. Mr..
Midzuno agreed with this policy in
every particular and added word of
encouragement.
Where Is Friction?
K Nezu, member of parliament and
trustee of the Toxic Chamber of
Commerce, agreed with the remarks of |
Mr.. Otani with reference to the friend |
ly spirit prevailing between the two |
nations. He was also pleased that the |
labor troubles had come to an end and |
that the japanese people are contribu- |
ting toward the general industrial de- |
yelopment of the Islands. He was |
pleased to learn that in the manufac- |
ture of soy and sake, many of the |
materials used were grown in the |
Islands, feature which would mate
rally add to the wealth of the Terri |
tory. This was right, as otherwise the |
Japanese could not improve their con-
dition.
AS to the relations between America |
and Japan, he asked the question. |
''What is this friction that we hear |
about2" He laid it to the yellow jour
nails and could explain it in no other |
EJn haII
could help each other.
Composed Poem on Pail.
While the commissioners were gazing
out over the magnificent country of |
windward Oahu from the Pail, Messrs.
Midzuno and Iwaya, the latter being
known in the literary world as Sazana- |
nj, composed poem about the |
wonders of the Pail. Tt was short, but |
is said to be very beautiful5in the orig
inal.
Pupil Of Professor Scott.
T. Watase, proprietor of the Toxic
Plant, Seed and Improvement Company,
greatly regretted that he failed to meet /
his former instructor, Prof NJ. NJ. |
Scott, the latter having taught in one |
of the government schools in Japan !
thirty years ago. MIR. Watase spoke |
in the highest terms of his former in |
structor
Old Men in Party.
There are several very old men in
the party, two being over seventy years
of age and three between the ages of |
sixty and seventy. The younger mem
bers of the party, as well as many of /
their hosts, have wondered at the vital |
ity and vigor shown by these aged men |
in keeping up the pace set in the thir-
teen thousand mile journey. The health |
of the whole party has been exceptions |
ally good during the entire trip.