The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-06-03
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greatest travel class I'm the country" f,
that amongst these are 1900 presi
dents and vice-presidents of banks
5000 engineers and 10000 physicians
and lawyers MIR. Melville H. Stone is
the general manager of the Associd-
ted Press, an American associa-
ton with worldwide ramihcations
and having for its object the collec
ton and distribution of news.
You will thus see, gentlemen, that
those responsible for the statements
the mis-statements-l am about to
bring before you could hardly have Sc.
lected a better means for giving those
mis-statements wide and apparently
authoritative publicity if they wished
to reach the class of readers in the
United States whose opinions were
likely to carry weight in influential
quarters-an article printed in a high
class magazine published in the capt
tai city of the United States, circulat-
ing among the best class of readers
and written by the general manager
of a great international news agency.
Mr.. Stone visited the Far East last
year, and he publishes the views he
then formed on Race Prejudice in the
Far East" in the article referred to.
With these views we, as an associa-
ton, have no concern.
The Story Of Mr.. Stones Harvard
Graduate" Automatically Denied.
What we have TO deal with are the
statements which Mr.. Stone alleges
were made to him by "a Harvard
graduate who is now minister of the
japanese crown" The story as relat-
ed to Mr.. Stone by this alleged minis
ter of the Japanese crown is, cutting
out parts not essential to the present
remarks, as follows:
when Perry came here, and Town.
send Harris followed him and made
the first treaty with Japan it was
stipulated that we (the Japanese)
should give them ground for their
pounds We did so. We gave
them ground in Yokohama for their
consulates. Merchants and traders
followed, and we gave them ground
also for their shops Oaughter.)
The British and the Russians and
other European nations came in
and we gave them like concessions.
Well, as the time went on the
village grew into city. Sir
Harry Parkes, the British Minister,
asked for ground in Yokohama for 2
race track. We cautiously suggested
that horse racing was said to be
wicked by the European missionaries.
But he insisted, and we gave him the
ground. Then We were asked for
ground for a social club for the for
eigners, and we gave them plot on
the sea front, the finest piece of land
in the city. . cloud laughter)
Later they wanted to play cricket
and football, and finally golf. Well,
we gave them ground for this. AS
the city grew, this cricket field was
so surrounded by buildings that it
was practically in the center of the
town. Understand, all this ground
was donated. Last year we sug-
gested that We could use the cricket
field, and We offered to give in place
of it a field in the suburbs. AS rail
ways had been built meanwhile, the
new field would soon be even more
accessible than the old one was when
we gave it. cloud laughter.) The
foreigners demurred, and proposed
that we buy the old field, and with
the purchase money they would Sc
cure a new one Finally, we compro-
missed by paying for their improve
ments and furnishing them a new
field with improvements free of cost
(Renewed laughter)
"The question of taxation arose.
Yokohama had grown to be city
of 100000 inhabitants, with millions
of dollars invested in buildings owned
by foreigners. We asked no taxes
on the ground we had donated to
them, but We did think it fair that
they should pay taxes on their build
ings. They said no, that everywhere
in the West the buildings went with
the ground. We submitted the ques-
ton to the Americans, but they
lodged the issue, saying they would
do whatever the others did. Qaugh-
terD Then under the law of extra
territorialitv we were compelled to
leave the decision to the British Con
sui, and he decided against us.
(Derisive laughter) The case has
now gone to the Hague Court"
The Harvard Graduates" Audacity
and Mr.. Stones Amazing