Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-04
TRADE WITH JAPAN
Knox Strikes Keynote at Ban
quet to Visitors.
DIVIDING THE PACIFIC
Secretary Ballinger's Words I'm
press Oriental Business Men.
FRIENDLY ASSURANCES GIVEN
Baron Shibusawa Emphasizes Jap
ans Desire to Extend CONNER
cial Relations With America.

japan and the United States. through
distinguished representatives of each ma
ton, fraternized last night around the
banquet table at the New Willard Hotel
and eloquent speeches, delivered in Eng
fish and Japanese and replete with as
surances OF friendship, mutual interests
and appreciation of the value OF active
commercial intercourse, were cheered to
the echo.
The occasion was the celebration of the
birthday anniversary Of the Emperor of
Japan The host was Keishiro Matsui,
charge d affaires of the imperial Japanese
embassy. The guests were the honorary
commercial commission OF Japan and a
party Of distinguished Americans, in
GLIDING Secretary Knox. Secretary Bal
linger, Commissioner Macf' and and Of
ficers of the local BOARD Of Trade and
the Chamber of Commerce.
In the addresses and the applause
which greeted them; in the conversations
about the table between little groups OF
Japanese and Americans. and in the leave
takings as the members Of the honorary
commission babe their new friends "au
revOir' before leaving for the Union sta
ton, was made evident the common pur-
pose of all present to foster the most
cordial relations between the two ma
tons.
Flags of Nations Entwined.
The banquet hall was draped with
American and Japanese flags. Clusters
of American beauty roses and chrysan-
| themums filed the space between the
tables. which were arranged in a rec
tangle. Ferns and autumn leaves were
distributed artistically about the room.
From a platform the United States Ma
rine Band furnished music. rendering
American and Japanese patriotic airs. A
| feature of the dinner was the march of
the walters, when, headed by an Ameri-
| can and japanese, bearing the colors of
each nation, and marching TO japanese
air. they filed into the room, bearing the
| ice cream served north pole style"
| From each frozen pole flOated the Amer
| lean and Japanese flags. and the frosting
on the cakes was decorated with Japa-
nese inscriptions.
After the coffee was served, Mr.. Matsui,
the host, rose solemnly and said: Il rise
the United States" AS the toast was
drunk by all standing, the band played
America" Without any introduction.
Secretary Knox stood up and said: Il pro-
pose toast TO his imperial majesty. the
| Emperor of Japan
Cries of Banzai. Banzai, rang through
the hall as the guests emptied their glasses
to the emperor on his birthday.
Secretary Knox's Address.
| Secretary Knox said:
Baron Shibusawa and Honorable Com
missioners:
at is my privilege and a great pleasure
to welcome you to Washington on behalf
Of this government, and to express the
sincere hope that your journeyings and
| observations and entertainments in this
country have been. and will continue to
be, comfortable and profitable and agree
able to you. May health and kindly
| courtesies and good cheer attend you
wherever you go, and may your return
voyage across the seas to your own beau
tiful country be safe and happy one.
| This is an opportunity of which
gladly avail to speak of the ties which
have continued to unite our two nations
i'm amity and essential harmony ever
since the days when to American repre-
| sentatives first of all. you opened your
doors for the reciprocal exchange Of good
| will and civilization and trade. 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:
| for the eminent qualities drawn from a
long and glorious past through which
| you must teach and we must learn. Is
| 1t your word 'bushido' that expresses the
| source and inspiration OF much of the
strength and nobility of the Japanese
Il .
which also looks back to lofty origins.
learn what eastern 'bushido' has to teach.
Sympathy for Prince Ito's Loss.
| Because Of these ties between us we
sometimes share copmon grief 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 him as a per-
sonal friend. was a deep personal loss.
He was justly hero of Japan, great
man. a noble self-sacrificing patriot, a
statesman of mastery constructive abil-
Iity. His career is the history OF the new
| Japan, of the Japan which is now one of
the great modern powers or the world.
| gifted Englishman Of letters has told a
| fine story of the career and work of
Yoshda, whose pupil Prince Ito was. and
describing Yoshida's intensity OF patriotic
virtue has used language which well
describes Ito himself.
| HE hoped perhaps. to get the good OF
other lands without their evil; to enable
| Japan to profit by the knowledge of the
barbarians and still keep her inviolate
with her own arts and virtues.
| els it too much to say that such hopes
of the great minds of Japan are in the
| way of realization? Japan has set her
| self in that path, and every friendly and
| generous heart believes she will keep
the faith and hopes she will attain her
! goal.
Keen Yet Friendly Rivalries.
But you already have and will expect
keen yet friendly rivalries. which are
only the stimulating competitions of the
struggle toward excellence going on
| everywhere at all times. Commerce, ex-
change, markets, trades extension-these
| are the fields i'm which the friendly COM
| mercial rivalry now proceeding between
the American and japanese peoples finds
expression. Each. indeed, furnishes a
wide market for the other, and beyond
their respective boundaries they engage