Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-10-29
# America and Japan Fight II
Win Be Over Trade Rivalry,
Says Japan Advertiser


OF celebrating the opening of the Pa.
mama canal the Panama Pacific Inter
national Exposition, and Of promoting
better relations between the United
States and Japan. The Japan Adyer-
tiser OF Toxic issued on October 5 q
special 4s-page Panama-Pacafic ed
|ti0n.
issued with a view Of aiding in the
PRONUNCIATION Of stronger feeling of
Efriendliness between America and ia
pam. is the catchword of the edition.
which is splendidiy edited and pro-
fusely illustrated.
One special, feature Is a series OF
interviews with. or letters from, lead
|ers in all lines Of life in both coun-
tries, specially prepared comments on
the huge undertaking Of the paper,
and COMMUNICATION of the motive
which prompted issuing the edition.
On the first page. against d eolored
background made up Of Japanese Ian
terms bearing the flags OF Japan and
the United States, appear photographs
OF the Japanese Emperor and Of Presi.
dent Wilson. s..
Wilson's Message.
Over q reproduction OF Wilson's sig
nature appears the following;
Il am very much interested to learn
of your plan for a special edition OF
the Japan Advertiser In connection
with the opening of the great EXPOSE
ton at San Francisco and am glad to
avail myself Of the opportunity Of con-
veying through you to the people and
government Of Japan an expression
of the deep and sincere pleasure It
gives me that the Japanese and AM
efican people are to be brought into
friendly contact in the generous rival
ry Of skill and national genius In that
exposition. hope that the fair viii
demonstrate in very delightful way
the friendship of the two peoples
and afforded striking oppor-
tunity to display their true economic
relations to one another.
From Japan's Premier.
Count Okuma. Japan's premier, has
the following message:
The issue Of q Panama.Pacific Ex-
position number of the Japan Adver-
tiser presents an opportunity for me
to express to the public of the UniteI
States and Japan the great interest
which Japan takes In the Panama ca
nal: its Importance to the commercial
welfare of Japan and the possibilities
it holds In the development Of the
trade between the United States and
the Orient, especially Japan. II is &
pleasure for me to say that Japan Is
in most friendly relationship with Am
erica, economically as well as social
~. The affairs of q few Japanese i'm
migrants in the Pacific coast states
are very small matters compared with
our satisfactory relations
Messages from Roosevelt, former
yice-president Fairbanks and other
noted Americans are round side by
side with Interviews with Japan's cab
met members. One interesting Sec
ton, oopiously illustrated, Is devoted
to Japan's arts. Another shows many
views of the Panama runal. and car
ries interviews and articles on the in
fluence OF the canal on the trade of
the Orient. One-half page, filled with
an advertisement of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company, is of especial In
terest in Honolulu, in that 1t carries
across its face, printed in
red letters, the following statement:
CANCELLED.
Owing to the passage of the United
States seaman's bill the Pacific Mail.
has been forced to go out Of business;
therefore this advertisement is now
Cancelled"
A special editorial contains the fol-
lowing suggestive paragraphs:
Every intelligent citizen of Japan
and the United States has been con-
scions for some years past of a change
in the relations of the two countries
The old cordiality has given place to
a feeling of doubtfulness. American
public opinion, perhaps the most artic-
camps. One maintains the tradition
of generous friendship and passionate
But there is another school which
If not hostile is keenly critical, and
which serutinizes Japan's policy as
the policy of an ambitious and power
full neighbor will always be scrutiniz-
ed. You get another side of the same
situation in the fact that while trade
has improved and personal connec-
tons have always been cordial, diplo-
rnatic relations have shown tenden-
cy to gravitate from cordially to cor
rectness." The question which lovers
of each country, lovers of both coun-
tries, lovers of peace and civilization
have to ask themselves is whether
this uncertainty of feeling, this sus-
pense of cordially, has its origin In
a real conflict of those vital interests
for which, upon due provocation, ma.
tions will go to war, or whether it is
merely the temporary uncertainty of
passing and adjustable misunderstand-
ings,
Might Involve Conflict.
with perfectly correct instinct
Americans have usually viewed the
question as the most
probable cause of trouble between the
countries. That problem might easily
involve, as we said, conflict between
the two rights. But the war that has
presented itself to American imagin-
ations has always been g defensive
war, and indeed the facts of the situ-