Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

best element of our people have ti5U
greatest friendship for your nation 49,.
l have had altogether three long ins
terviews with Prince Ito. The first ocs
CURED twenty years ago at the houBe
of the prince in Toxic. He was thea
the Japanese premier and acted as such
during the war with China, which Uc=
CURED shortly after my talk Ny SER
ond interview with him was in 1904,
just before the war with Russia Ma
gave me to understand that the reIa-
tions OF the two people were strainsd
put said that the governments wGFs
friendly. Nevertheless within ak
months after that war was dacIarnd
and some of the greatest battles OF rff
time We're fought. In that fnteryieyr
Ito talked of the Philippine Isla nff1vs
which had just come into our hantfy~
ne SAID that he was glad that nm
americans had taken possession =of
them, and that he thought il was our
duty to develop them and their people.
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MY last interview with Marquis Ito was
only few months before his death y
was about leaving Japan for Korea IN
write series of letters about that couH-
try Ito had been governor general or
Korea. and he had the welfare OF the
Koreans greatly at heart. He asked me
to come out to HIS country villa near
TOXIC, and spend the day with him
did so. and we had a long converse ttz,sz
about himself and his country and aTso
ABOUT Korea and other matters relating
TO the FAR east Here he reiterated hfa
former sentiments relating to the Unif16
states. President Roosevelt was then m
the White House. and he expressed the
greatest admiration and regard for him,
MI, roosevelt had sent him a photograph
ana the prince had had this enlarged TO
portrait size and framed He had one=9f
his servants bring him the framed pictTrA
into the room. and place it on a chair
peiore US SO that We had TheodeFe
roosevelt looking at us. silent partfcE
pant in our talk. venture that this is The
only time that Mr.. Roosevelt has kept
silent In any tripartite conversation. -
In talking OF the future of Japan Prince
Ito emphatically said that the mission-ef
his nation was peace rather than war ffA
hoped that Japan would engage in trads
ing and manufacturing and evidenty
thought that il had a situation I'm the far
east compared TO that which England haA
IN Europe. one that fits ii to be a great
commercial and industrial nation.
He said that he thought the friendly
relations Of Japan and the United Stafas+
would continue, but intimated that he 81
not IKE our treatment OF Japanese imrdf-
grants and that the japanese children az
California ought not to be discriminat0a
against in the schools.
referred to Korea, and he said that 6o
was anxious that that country should DIS
veiop along modem lines. and that tn
people be given q modern civilizationI
know that he did all that he could foe
Korea. and nevertheless it was a Korean
who took his life. The assassination ooe
CURED In Manchurfa. where Prince lfo
had gone from Chemulpo. Korea. His bo6y
was brought back to Toxic for burial. H
the time OF the funeral the emperor ard
empress each sent representatives ana
upon thousands accompanied
the great conn which was carried on the
shoulders Of men - Hkbjya Park. winery
the funeral ceeeDpniae took place In frolx
Of the &h1nto Shrine.
FRANK O. CARPENTER.