New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-26

response 20 this the Japanese govern
ment declares that IL has only one
place 10 look for justice and correct
Interpretation Of the treaty, and that is
in Washington.
Japan's Indignation appears 20 have
grown with the negotiations. In the
note Of May Of last year an urgent
and explicit protest" was made. and
Japan set forth her case in no uncer-
tain terms. but throughout showed cir
eumspection and restraint. On August
&c. however, the Japanese Foreign Oh
fee reiterated all the original conten-
tons. casting aside the answers Of the
United States as not meeting the Situa-
tion at all, with great vehemenee. Re-
ferring TO the California alien land
law, Japan said:
"That act. by depriving the Japanese
subjects of che right Of land owner
ship, while freely continuing the right,
not only in favor OF the subjects and
citizens Of all the other powers with
which the United States maintains re-
ciprocal treaty relations, but in favor
OF many non-treaty aliens, has estab-
lished q discrimination of the most
marked and inyidious character against
japan.
Cell IL Treaty Violation.
"The measure is, moreover, in the
opinion Of the imperial government,
unjust and inequitsble, and contrary
TO the letter end spirit Of the Japan
ese-American treaty, as well as at
variance with the accepted precepts
governing and regulating the inter
course Of good neighborhood, and being
admittedly ex industrial discriminatory
against this empire as against other
states, il is also Notifying to the ma
tor and disregsrdful of the national
susceptibilities of the japanese peole.
This is the gravgmen of Japan's
complaint. The notes of the Hon. W.
j. Bryan contained remarks and eX-
plantations and extenuation Of the ac-
ton Of California. but nothing in the
estimation of the imperial government
which answers fundamentally to that
complaint or which tendS TO shake
their conviction regarding the main
question. If, as is confidently be-
lleved, the existing treaty between
Japan end the United States has been
violated. there is but one remedy, and
the imperial government are unable 70
escape the conclusion that the duty OF
applying that remedy devolves solely
upon the government of the United
States, as the measure complained o.
has, despite the protest lodged by you,
been permitted to go into operation.
THE imperial government reserves
for the present the further discussion
of the question at issue. There are,
however, some statements and conclu-
sions advanced by Mr.. Bryan which
the imperial government feel il their
duty forthwith TO call in question.
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les of commerce to prevent undue in
ternstional discrimination, and the
most favored nation principle, which
finds a place in nearly all such COM
pacts, has had the effect, in an inter-
national sense, Of equalizing oppor-
tunities in all the various avenues of
commercial and industrial life. 1t is
true that special privileges are, in OK
ceptional circumstances, sometimes
granted by one nation in favor OF an
other, but the present case stands out,
il is believed, as the one single IN
stance without historical parallel in
which a state maintaining by treaty
the reciprocal most favored nation re-
lations with another state has ever, IN
a matter such as that under discus
sion, essayed to discriminate against
such other state, as compared with
third powers with which no such rela-
tions exist"
Concluding this note, which also dis
cusses in considerable detail some Ct
the points at issue, the Japanese Min
lister for Foreign Affairs says that the
imperial government is unable either
to acquiesce in the unjust and Obnox-
ious discrimination complained of or
to regard the question as closed so
long az the existing state of things
is permitted to continue"