The Cairo bulletin., 1913-05-27
BLAINE ON BRYAN
| FOR FAILURE TO
HOLD OFF JAPAN
Diplomatists Say Secretary Should
Apply Answer on Panama Tolls
to California Issue.
COURTS WOULD END DISPUTE
Mikado Could be Delayed in Protests
Until Actual Effect Of Law
Was Felt.

WdSHlu6tOH, May SO.--oHiCidis
OF the State Department who hav'
made diplomacy lifetime study sa,
that Secretary of State Bryan ha
made a stupendous blunder in no
applying the answer of the Stat,
Department to Great Britain's Pan
ANA canal tolls protest to the Jap
anese land law protest.
In the British protest case th'
atmosphere was cleared instantl,
by the assertion of the previous ad
ministration that Great Britain''
only time In court would be aftel
an overt act had been committed
In plain words, that Great Britainl
grievance would only become mat
tel for settlement when an Ameri
can coastwise ship had actuall,
passed through the canal withon
paying tolls.
The critics of Mr.. Bryan in hi
own department say that the OBJ
yious answer to Japan. after stating
that the treaty had not been VIC
lated, was that there was no furthe
matter for contention or converse
tlon until after some Japanese SUI
jects in California had been aggriev
ed by the actual operation of th'
California alien land law.
British Case Rests.
The fact that Secretary Bryar
and the President, while denyinl
fatty that the treaty of 1911 ha'
been violated, proceeded to invit
further negotiations, gives the Jap
anese Ambassador the opportunit.
against itself where the very sam,
principle is involved.
The correspondent was told on tn
very highest authority today tina
the State Department had not nu
dertaken as yet to press the con
tention with Great Britain made b,
the previous State Department tha
Great Britain had no case until tn
Canal act was in operation and that
further. her only remedy then wa
in the federal courts.
1t is plain to some of the Off
cials of the State Department tha
there would be wide and unex
plainable discrepancy between tn
principles laid down in the Japan
ese case, IL they should unfortu
Hately be made public SO that tn
diplomatic world could read them il
parallel columns. The fact remain
whatever the motive, that tn
United States is trying to settl
first with Japan principle whic
was first asserted to the State De
partment by Great Britain. Bot
issues involve the alleged violatio
of treaty rights by discrimination
Knox Enlightens Britain.
In the Japanese case, as in th
British case, this government wa
notified in advance that the passae
of certain laws would be regarde
as violations of treaty rights S
that the United States could not Sc
up tn defense that there was an
error or mistake in the laws. tt
passage of the California land az
and the Panama canal act was d.
liberate and with previous notice.
In the reply of Secretary of Stat
Knog to Great Britain he did NJ
temporarize by seeking to interfel
with the Congress of the Unite
States. In very easily understood
Anglo-Saxon he said that the affa
was none of the, business of Grei
Britain. In the Japaness case tn
administration by some cf its off
Gals Indirectly but effectively to
Japan that the people of Californi
were about to commit legislati'
crimes against the Japa- ese natio
The Japanese case is intensifie
II course, by the involved chars
that the honor OF the country is {
stake. Great Britain has made SUI
stantially the same point, when 81
said by Ambassador Bryce that Il
-Pauncefote treaty was violate
and the violation Of the treaty affec
the honor Of the nation Wink
charges that 1t has been violate
after due notice.
II is now expected that the ia