The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-01
WlCKERSHAM SCORES
EXCLUSION POLICY
Tells Japan Society United
States Is Not Practising
What 1t Preached.

! x-Attorney-General George w Wick
ersham told 900 men and women at q
| dinner OF the Japan Society In honor Of
Or. Shosuke Sa.o. president OF the Uni
versity OF the North in Japan. at thu
| Hotel Aston last night that the United
states seems now to be initiating ths
policy OF exclusion and national isolation
which this country induced Japan e
abandon seventy years ago
I'VE are exhibiting to the world at IN,
present time a most extraordinary serie:
| Of para doxes" ne said. states and the
nation have been legisiating and enforcing
| laws TO preserve the principles Of unre'
stricted competition In trade and AT the
same time there seems TO be an equally
strong tendency to prevent free competi-
ton in labor"
In California. he said. there was no,
only an effort being made to close doors
to immigrants but they were trying &c
drive out many immigrants. some OF whom
are our superiors.
DIR. T. Iyenaga. PROFESSIONAL lecturer ir
the University OF Chicago. said that the
sentiment OF gratitude toward America
for al that the men OF this country have
done for the Japanese has been almost
national in Japan.
After referring to the California situa-
ton. the commercial rivalry in China and
the sudden rise of Japan as a military
power which. he said. were excellent ma
terias for EVIL genluses to work with.
he added:
III a war scare was needed for the
qualification of news mongers or for the
passing through Congress of navy bills
- as TO make dockyards and steel in
dustr!es busy Japan was every time
utilized for the purpose. She has been
dragged in even In the controversy about
the Panama Canal tolls.
The case with Japan Is. however.
different. II Is the country little known
or understood by the American people a,
large. Consequently misrepresentation
or false stories told about her are liable
to infiict far greater injuries than would
happen in other instances
Dr. Sato. the guest OF honor. said that
he was impressed with the wonderfully
friendly spirit displayed in all places that
he had visited and declared the empire
has reason 20 b. thankful for these
friends. lie said that the japanese have
great confidence in President Wilson and
tho lawmakers of the United States to
honestly handle the difficult problem pre-
scented on the question OF coastwise tolls
Or Charles w. Eliot. president emeritus
OF Harvard, who acted as POSTMASTER adj
Vised all Americans who could do so to
20 20 Japan and see the new life which
that nation has taken on. a life such as no
other people has ever equalied.
Speakers also included Lindsay Russell
president Of the Japan Society. and Dr.
f. II. /. Gould. Others at the guest table
were the Right Rev. VI. G. Harris. Method
lst Episcopal Bishop of Japan and Cores
Lieut. col. r. W. Hslford vice-president of
the Philippine Society; w. H. short
secretary Of the New York Peace Society :.
DR. Joklchi Takamino. president of the
Nippon club; Lowell Lincoln, vice-presl-
dent Of the American Asiatic Association (.
Dean T.. = Keppel secretary OF the Amer
lean Association for international Recon
Citation Henry Clews, president Of the
American Peace and Arbitration League
and +. Cunllffe-Owen. vice-president Of
the Pilgrims Society.