The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-07-01
AT THE HOTELS.


Tokyo, is at the Shoreham.
The far Fastener, who is also a prom
inent lawyer, presented an interesting
picture last night in his room. where he
received the interviewer NJ Kouroda
was attired in kimono OF light material,
and wore sandals and looked the picture
OF comfort, Notwithstanding the mercury
was sizzling In the thermometer.
He is an elderly man, with stiff gray
whiskers and mastache, and while CIV
ing the desired information in French.
continuously smiled and shrewdly eyed
his interviewer through gOld-rimmed
spectacles.
Japan is a great friend of America"
said Mr.. Kouroda, who is on a tour OF
the world to make a study of the various
procedures Of law practices in operation
in the different countries. Admiral
Perry opened our country to Western
civilization, and We are ever grateful 10
America. There has never been a thought
OF enmity in Japan toward the United
States; only yellow newspapers, for po-
liticai purposes and 10 swell their sales.
infamed the common, unthnking people
some years ago with talk of anti-Ameri-
canism. But that IS a thing OF the past.
Mr Kouroda said he was a philan-
thropist, and was interested in bringing
the nations OF the world together into
bonds Of universal brotherhood.
DO you believe in disarmament, Mr..
Kouroda %
The japanese shrewdIy smiled and
said: yes; If all the nations disarm;
not otherwise"
Mr. Kouroda also wished to tell the
American people through The Washing
ton Herald that Americans have the ie-
gal right to acquire property In Japan.
mat they can become japanese citizens
II they so desire, and that their patented
and copyrighted properties are fully pro-
contrary.
Morris L. Sparks. of P4nps GrovA N
j.. who has just returned from a West
ern tour, is at the National. He Is in
the employ of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad
Everything is closed tight on Sundays
In the East said Mr. Sparks; but from
what have observed out West, and par
ticulariy in Colorado. prefer the free
dom and liberties which the people in
those parts enjoy
I have frequently been in this CITY
on Sundays, and found fewer people in
the principal streets than have I'm Lead
Vile on Sunday. Philadelphia is the
same way. II is impossible to blv any
thing there-even a cigar sometimes. An
the Eastern cities are more or less alike
in that respect"
By Eastern cities. Mr.. Sparks ex-
planned. he referred only to the cities on
the Atlantic coast and a few miles in
land. Pittsburg and Buffalo are .'out
West for the people Of PHILADELPHIA.
He knew. he said. that Cincinnati is one
of the widest open" places in the coun-
Try, but that Is way out in the wild and
woolly country in the minds OF the COM
PLEASANT jewellers along the seacoast.
TO nv notion" summed I'D Mr..
Sparks, the territory between Denver
and the Pacific Coast is the ideal local
ity in which to live. / have spent my
best years right In the midst of the in
dustriai excitement Of the Eastern COM
mereial centers, bat If ] had to do it
over again I'd locate in the free and
easy West. Horace Greeley's advice
might well be followed. even by the
young man Of to-day"
N. Tnouye. of Tokyo. Japan. a German
speaking, ~vell-fed japanese. was seen at
the shoreham last night. and the way he
spoke Wilhelms German would have
tickled the cookies of the Kaiser's i'm
perial heart Notwithstanding the fact
that the Hohenzollern about twenty
years ago was the reputed author Of the
much-discussed yellow peril"
NJ Inouye was a student at the Uni
versity Of Berlin. where Col. Roosevelt
ieetured, for three years. and spent some
years In Vienna. where the German Ian
guage is also spoken. If he did not look
so japanese, he might pass for q Ger
man university student. But he has de-
cided views on Germany.
Politicians in Iowa are in a quandary
as to the outcome in November. accord
ing to J. K. Rodgers. of Des Moines, who
is at the New Willard.
THE standpatters are confident" said
he. that they will win out, as they had
a majority at the primaries. The insur-
gents. on the other hand, are Just as
confident that when the vote is counted
in November they will have the major
ity. They give as a reason for this that
though a very small vote was polled at
the primaries, 1t viii be different when
the election takes place. The insurgents
are hard workers and never let an op-
portunity escape to strengthen their po-f .
sition
From conversations had with Repub-
leans and Democrats. they all concede
the fact that Senator Cummins is the
brainest man in the State and one who
has done much for its great interests.
With few exceptions. they firmly be-
lieve that he Is sincere in the stand he
has taken and only desires that the Re
publican party stand by its platform and
carry II out 70 the end
President Taft IS gaining confidence
n Iowa gradually. They realize now
that he has succeeded in getting some
beneficial legislation through Congress
md has tried to carry cut the promises
upon which he was elected As a gen.
sral rule. however, the Iowans seem to
AXE 10 a man of the Roosevelt type
-ather than the Taft pattern. Roosevelt
las. that Western breeZiness and rug
sedness about him which so appeals to
he Westerner Roosevelt is as true as
teel withal, and honest and patriotic.
But l bet ne viii stand by Taft. back
rom Elba or not back from Eiba."
Price S. Knightley. of Liverpool Eng
and. who is sojourning at the Airing
on, in speaking of titled shopkeepers,
aid last night: The people who dearly
Owe lord and all the pomp and pride
hat titles imply are shocked at the
peetacle OF great number of members
4 the ancient aristocracy engaged in
.eeping shops. 1t is particularly shock
ne TO those Americans who love Eng
ana because it contains so many persons
rho are raised by birth above the COM
non herd OF humanity. 1t is very dis
eartening to see the descendants of the
eudal aristocraey engaging in those vul-
ar and sordid occupations by which the
majority Of prosperous Americans earn
living
THE tendency TO go into trade con-