The Alaska citizen., 1913-09-01

"INIFF ut the ttrihrH TTI#r dt 'hr Broadway IIi-h s.ho i've yeaIs ago. has eA.ned m-hcs, aouors in oratary at tho University ot Chi sEzo lie ss member of tais years graduating glass. a-.I syas one amot 2 =.'ra applicants r. compete for th.= 6is'iEs.un EasH Is about 2> years old, and has been studying for th" diplomat service lis prizc-v vnui.s ora'i .~ entitled ~4lc Mastery D. th" Pacific" T. is r,ml-kah.a .a iisrsary rtfor'. makjn. for peace be- tween Japan and the United Stlt.s. kasai submitted it under the pm name of Daniel Webster" The speech which Mr. Takahashi, presi- dent Of th, O,.eutalAmoriean bank of seattle, proposed to distribute Widesfrcad iii es-eu'ar form. : as follows
 SNsy ya1rs a-, -zat.ht 5our gal Ian, Commodore Perry aroused the secluded Empire ot Japan With the booming of cam and introduced her "a the nations If The West, From that time on the United ates has hetriended JapaH though The perils nf foreign lgsress OH. and Japan therefore. has rsyered America IS her teacher and trae friend. When q few years ago We were engaged Ii the bloody var @ith Russia you gave IL moral support and sympathy.
 But hardly had We fulfilled the hop,s and expectations the fiber tE-l1yiHg Americans when suddenly there came the cries of some alarm ist~. Beware of "the Yellow Peril"!' Beware of the unci,ilized and war like JaFaHese' Beware of Iapau's ambition to master the Pacific al he expense os the United States"
 Moreover. the Japanese have been diserim mated against humliated and subjected 10 injustice and shame II certain parts of America until fin. ally the recent auti-Japanese IeGis- 1ation in California has caused em- barassmcut 10 the federal govern meut
 That this hist rig bond of friend shp should thus bo threatened by ir- responsible agi'lsors is crime. A q humble student of 'his nerld-re- uowued university n one who i- jmAued, as he believes with the hf,y sp ri of your institution and noble ideals of your people and at tho samn finn. mr,ured ill the fra1.- lions of Japan my heart burns with riaheous indieHa)ioa f hear such false charges Inspired hy my reverence for my alma mater my admiration for America and hy loy- alty to my native country, | come here tonight to plead. in the name of sixty mill ons of my countrtmen, that Japan and America should con .nue friends. Allow me. then, to appeal to UT American sense of justice and fairness. which is known all over the world
 The rise of Japan is not a men ace to the American interests In Asia Since Japan became a world power your Oriental trade has been constantly increasing. and our com mercial ties are being strengthned every year. It is not Japan that $ your dangerous competitor in the Orient but il is England. Germany and France The greater the indus tries of Japan become, the greater will he the American C mmerce with Japan. Our mills and factories are equipped with your machinery and supplied with your raw materials.
 Tn 1SSG the trade between Japan and Amer ca amounted to less than sl0,00o, GOO, while now it reaches Sl50.000, ,o0o. an increase of .45o per cent Moreover. since Japan's vie tory over Russia the American trade with Korea and Manchuria has been Quadrupled. Does this look as f Japan were a menace to America and T yiolator of the open or policy?
 Our detractors tell Us that the Japanese are essentially 'unciviliZed and cannot be assimilated. But they forget that Japan is country with seen the rise and fall of many em- pires and kingdoms. She saw Greece in her zenith of glory and Rome as the supreme mistress of the Mediter- ranean world She witnessed Alex ander's invasion of the East and Caesars conquest of Gaul and Brit ain. She had her culture and art when your Anglo-SaXon forefathers were still roaming in the forests of Europe. Her educational system long antedates King Alfreds school and Charlemagne's patronage of men centuries of her existence as ma tion she has assimilated Buddhism from India Confucianism from China and Chr anity and modern science from the West. Because of her geographic position, she is pecu liarly fitted to become crucible for