Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-07-26
WHAT IS TO BE The
FUTURE OF THE JAP?
Discrimination Against Him is
Question in Nippon

Toxic, July 25.-The negotiations
between the United States and Japan
over the California land bill stirred
publicists and preachers of the broad
up in Japan widespread discussion by
subject of the future of Japan in her
relations with the countries of the
West.
This discussion showed an earnest
effort to seek the causes of the dis
elimination against Japanese in Cali
fornia and in other places, including
Canada and Australia. Some cor
sentative newspapers criticised what
they claimed to be the practice of thu
Japanese authorities in California in
encouraging the registration of chill
dren born of Japanese parents as flu
ture subjects of the Japanese en-
pire, instead of allowing them to be-
come, as they would, citizens of tn,
United States.
Blames Ancestor Worship.
Considerable publicity is given here
to an article by Rev. Danjo Ebina, 4
Christian pastor and editor-in-chief of
the Shinjin magazine. The clergy
man argued that the question between
Japan and the United States was not
one that would end with those two
countries, but one that would develop
eventually between Japan and Canada
between Japan and the countries Of
South America-indeed, anywhere
where the Japanese might flourish
He declared that the great cause of
Japanese isolation was the insistence
upon ancestor worship and contended
that the great solution of the whole
question was a patient campaign to
obtain the right of naturalization in
America.
The abandonment of ancestor wor
ship and the adoption of a cosmopoli-
tan faith were needed to enable the
Japanese to assimilate abroad and
thus open up a new universe for the
Japanese race throughout the world
Unity of thought between the east
and west is pleaded for in the first
annual report of the Association Con-
cordia of Japan, which includes some
of the leading men of the empire N
educational, scientific and business
fields. The association declares that,
although in it's more superficial as
poets the intercourse between the east
and the west is growing increasingly
intimate and their scientific interests
are becoming wider, there is still Il
sad failure on each side to appreciate
the deeper things of the spirit which
underlie the life of the other. With
out any doubt the removal of causes
of irritation as regards political ana
commercial affairs, is an imperative
duty, but the creation of a reciprocal
sympathy is equally urgent if Japan
and the United States would lay Sc
cure foundations for international
peace and good will.
The report contends that hence
forth no nation can maintain its life
apart from the onward movement G.
the worlds thought and that the
worlds civilization will hereafter flow
in one strong current.
Interests Must Be Common.
Inasmuch as such problems as I'M
migration and colonization complicate
relations and endanger the peace and
progress of the world by unduly en-
phasizing national racial differences.
the association holds that it is impera-
tive to foster mutual sympathy and a
sense of common interest 1t will
strive. therefore, to promote deeper
sympathy and respect between the two
A Wilson danaocad ara hpra.