Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-11-11

training were promptly transmitted IN
to factors Of material advantage. al
most aggressive In eagerness.
The keynote OF educational enthu-
siasm. within the Empire. has been
nowhere more strikingly illustrated
than among the young women attend
ing the Girls Higher Normal School
at Nara. the recollection Of which will
never leave me.
/ should fail II omit to pay deep
respect to the scholarship of Japan.
notably to the attainments OF those
students who have attended the great
est universities and technical schools
Of Europe and America. and. by closest
application, been enabled to carry to
their own country stores of most adj
vanced knowledge and skill.
To them does Japan owe not only
rapid material. and possibly political
advances, but her position among the
intellectual forces u the world.
Certain professional altruists. upon
many occasions. endeayor to claim q
notable and fundamental part In the
modernization Of Japan. 80
: 1 fear this Is q harrow and special
lists point Of view mat 0yerloOks the
innate capacity ana initiative Of the
Japanese people.
TO q degree Japan has neglected no
means that tended to the realization
Of her varied hopes and ambitions.
She has, in her progress, deeply
studied and then adopted what has
seemed TO her the Wisest and most ef.
fective experience and highest devel-
opment, irrespective Of affiliations,
sentiment or nationality,
Japan desired navy and mer-
chant marine. The United States hav-
ing been driven from the high seas,
she logically took Great Britain as the
most notable and brilliant example,
initiated 1t. ana. so successfully did
she push her merchant marine. she
forced q differential In her favor in
competition In the carrying trade to
England's main nome ports.
The ultimate; attainments OF her
mergil&nt marine and navy cannot
now g predicted.
She desired an army and organize
ton 81 highest mobility and effective
ness. hence she could not and did not
fail q turn to Germany for example
and training. .ss,,ss.s IS.
The result need not be here re-
viewed &
JapSn has realized the vital import
ance of trained diplomats and consul
lar orfanizations III % i !.
Toby her diplomacy Is IN evidence
In every principal inEthe world Her
amba. sadors and ministers are not ST.
lent q whatever coucerns 1cr possibly
might concern the Empire Of Japan
She realized the fact conventional
ties re powerful lever. hence her
equip1entiEin all capitals impress OBJ
servers with her Importance. zis 4
The consulate In Honolulu II an IL
lustraIion iof Japanese appreciation o.
the fRlue of dignifed official sur.
/ cah testify to the thorough and ef-
fective organization and work Of His
Imperial Japanese Majesty's Consulate
covering this city and these islands.
That the Japanese people keenly
seek expansion and appropriate to
opportunity when within
their reach, singly or In association,
ceases to surprise when the pressure
Of numbers within the Empire is rea-
lied
Here. not opportunity for the immi-
grant but for all maturing island-born
children OF whatever nationality,
causes local official anxiety.
Hardest pressed, Japan's Imperial
solution Of this problem may direct ]
other nations as they too contend with
1t Is nt Tor me, ON this occasion and
to deIve into the mys-
teries Of International politics or prob
Iems or to speak as one knowing In
Iernat1onal purposes.
4 am here to speak in behalf of the |
Territory of Hawaii, Of its people. Of |
tsslocal government, and O their kind
Iiness toward the Japanese people,
whom We invited here To make their /
homes, share q greater prosperity than |
possible In their atherland. and to in
.rease and multiply. as the Creator
planned, and. having invited them,
nave shared with them every advant-
lge we possess.
Mere words, written or spoken. |
(which almost daily food us and you'll
mean little. Acts accomplished, not |
and things provided, that |
inter deeply into every day existence
Ind welfare, are the proof Of true
Impotence OF normal and safe |
growth of race assimilation seems to
De the only discordant and dangerous |
tote, sounded by the body Of the Jap
Inese people, but by elf?constituted |
,atrons and guardians.
] doubt IL even the Japanese realize
he practical friendship that has been
extended to them in these Islands.
1t is unparalleled in the history of
'eaceful relations among ningiing /