The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-20


necessary to keep dependencies in E
| state of tutelage so that their people
| cid not know the prices at what they
ought to sell goods in order. that the
| home government might get things
cheap and sell them at a high price is
| a game that works little while, but
| In the end it does no good to either
| rarty- And so it is as between ma
! the benefit of the other, if friendly re-
| turns continue and those commercial
| relations exist between them that
| ought to exist between friendly ma
tons.
1T gives me personal pleasure of a
very actue character to meet these
I representatives. of Japan. 1t has been
my good fortune six or seven times to
visit that wonderful country and to
| enjoy the hospitality of that wonderful
people.
you cannot visit there once with
out having deep impression made
upon you and you can imagine the i'm
preston have in having been there
six times and having two or three
times been the guest of the emperor
and people of Japan.
I'VE are a curious people. We
have got to run our newspapers. We
have to have at times emotions
stirred in order that newspapers
shall have circulation. and we can
not always do that with a statement
of the facts. Therefore, we have to
draw on our imaginations and make
that to appear which in fact is not
true just in order that there shall be
a circulation of intelligence among
the people. Now in times past we
have been stirred up. Those of us
who know the facts were never so
stirred up by announcements of
trouble between Japan and America
believe that even the newspapers
have now given up any such idea
Those of us who were in Japan, who
came into contact with all of her
great mena and talked with them
personally had no trouble on that
score.
Japan's War of Peace.
Japan is engaged in a contest. in
a struggle had almost said, but I
won't say it because it is not cor
rect expression-in a war and pre-
pairing herself for it. That struggle
sources and the making of her people
a great and successful and CONNER
cial nation. She has proven her
ability on the field of battle. She has
shown what can be done by the
thoroughness of preparation and
courage and careful, deliberate steps
in the direction of her ambition in
the defense of her rights and main
tanning her prestige on the field of
battle.
But she is not engaged in that
now. She is preparing for victories
of peace and in that we all hope she
may be successful We are not go
ing to yield in that controversy if
we can help it. We are entering the
contest and 1 hope will strip our
selves of some nonsensical ideas that
We have had heretofore in order that
we may make greater strides than
heretofore in the Orient and other
far distant countries the truth is, if
may say so, being an American, our
business men are little bit con-
cerned over their tremendous sue
l. faf
home, and therefore they have not
given as much attention as they
might and as other countries give to
the wishes and the tastes of Gus
TONERS in far distant lands They
are a little disposed to We'll these are
that sizes that we make and
these are the patterns that our looms |
turn out and now if the foreigners |
have not sense enough to take them |
as we make them why they can leave |
them
THAT is all right gentlemen. when |
the foreigners cannot get any other |
than those looms and that kind of |
goods, but if they can and do find |
to suit their tastes. why |
the Americans are going to be sec
ond or third or fourth in the race.
But We are acquiring sense in the
advance of our business interests and
warn our Japanese friends that
while we may be a little slow in get
ting to work and in understanding
what we have got to do, we will be
stripping ourselves in While and
hey must look out.
ut gives me great pleasure to pro-
pose toast to a parsonage who in his
ife and service to his people has shown
L devotion and a remarkable ability for
the men with which the Won
lerful advance of the Japanese has
been made possible and in government
here is no ability higher than the pow
sr to select the right men to do the
light thing I propose a toast to Il
warm and sincere friend of America, to
monarch whom it has been my high
honor to know personally and to be en-
ertained in the most hospitable man.
Ter. to ruler who has devoted all his
ife long to the benefit of his people
md to their success, his majesty, the
IN peror of Japan"
Japanese Acknowledge Courtesies.
To Mr.. Midzuno, the japanese consul
general at New York, fell the lot of in
orming the president of the many
,eiving from the representatives of TIE
associated chambers of commerce of
he Pacific coast. He said that J. D.
-owman, president of the Seattle
chamber of commerce, had qualified as
he most genial of hosts.
L want to meet him. said Mr. Taft
All this occurred at the luncheon and
Mr.. Lowman was escorted to the row
If honor at the main table.
Il have heard words of warmest
praise of your efforts to entertain our
distinguished visitors, and 1 am sure
you deserve them ALL said the presi-
lent in greeting Mr.. Lowman
Not being a speaker and being rest
ess in the limelight, Mr.. Lowman hur-
'iedly took from a leather case a beau
iful gold and enameled badge which he
pinned on the presidents breast 1t
shows the American eagle extending A
Welcome to Japan, depicted by the ris-
ng SUM- The medal was suspended
rom a bar showing the American and
Japanese flags intertwined. The stars
If the American flag were diamonds
such badges in silver and enamel gre