Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-03
AMERICANAND
JAP ANESE ARE
HONOR GUESTS
Bishop Harris of Korea and
Retiring Consul Arita Given
Luncheon

nations OF which they are subjects,
Leaders of the japanese community
here were hosts at a luncheon today
in the Young Hotel.
The guests were DR.. N. c. Harris.
bishop Of the Methodist missions of
Korea, and the retiring consul and
acting consul-generaE Around the
table sat not only prominent Japan
csc but prominent Americans OF HO-
nolulu also.
1t had been expected that Rokuro
Moroi. the new japanese consutgen.
eral for Hawaii. who arrived today
with Bishop Harris on the Shinyo Ma
ru, would be present at the luncheon
but he was getting settled after his
voyage. Bishop Harris continues
through TO the tates.
Previous to the luncheon Dr. Harris
and Consul-gereral .oroi had been
met at their steamer, the Shinyo
Maru, by Methodists and Japanese
leaders and taken for sightseeing
tours of the city. This afternoon a
reception is being given Bishop Har-
ris in the new parsonage of the Pew.
G. Nakamura, pastor of the River
street church. " ~: ..".l
This is a neE experience to me,
but am sure will like your islands"
said .Consul-Geaeral r. Moroi, as he
arrived from Japan this morning on
the Shinyo Maru, and was met at Pier
Z by delegation of prominent Homo
lulu Japanese, headed by Mr.. Arita-
Il left Belgium, where was charge
d'affaires at Brussels, in April, 1914, a
little more than two months before
the European war, started says Mr..
Moroi, who has had a, long and varied
experience as a diplomatist-, .,....~ +.
In Germany, at Berlin, Mr.. Moroi
was first secretary of the Japanese
embassy in the German capital for
some years, before the war. He has
been in Japan, with the foreign office,
for the last year and a half. Former
ly he served for six years as mem
Der of tine japanese royal commission
on treaty revision. Before serving on
the commission, he was. for five years
consul st Antwerp, so that his knowl.
edge of Europe is extensive.
Hawaii has gone farther than any
other place in the world to settle the
race question" said DR.. M. C. Harris
to the Japanese Ministers Associa-
ton and others present. You people
in Hawaii have hearts that are true,
and the time may come when the peo-
pie of the world viii look to Hawaii
for the solving of this question" =
81 have spent more than decade
in Japan, and have come to know the
Japanese, and have come to love
them. The people of that country
have come to you with the symbol Of
peace, and as you know Baron Shibu-
zawa is one of the foremost workers
for peace in the world today. He said
that il you cannot use the civilization
that we have at the present time with
out war it would be better to return
to the old conditions, Baron Shibu,
zawa is not the only Japanese who is
working for peace, as you in Hawaii
know. ...---=. II. .:.....t. -".....
What we need is for the Far East
to interpret the heart of America and
for America to interpret the heart of
the Far East. know this, as have
had opportunity enough to study the
conditions. l do not know whether
am all Japanese, all Korean or all
American. | know the Japanese
heart, and | love these noble knights
of the twentieth century who are
working for peace continually. ,...
Il would regret to see the sword
drawn IN a sudden madness. would
hate to see anger spoil the work of
years. Gentlemen, they can fight over
there, if they have to, but 1 pray that
America and Japan will live in peace
/ forever | was through part of the
Russian-Japanese war, and / know
that they fought on for two years
with faces blanched, silent but with
stern purpose and they won, and
peace has come again, and now the
two great nations are friendly. This,
| gentleman, is the feeling of the Jap
anese. ~. e.. .-.....
1T is a question of hearts, and |
have made a study of the hearts of
the Japanese. We are not all Chris
tians mere, ana a Buddhist dOesn t
make much difference, as the heart is
right, and with men like you all here
| in Hawaii working for cause | can
not help but hope that the friendship
between the two countries will con-
tinue to grow" $3.50.
NJ. Matsuzawa presided at the lunch
con today and in his opening remarks
welcomed Dr. Harris to Hawaii, and
stated that DR.. Harris had been a
friend of the people in Japan and had
given his life's work to the Japanese
and Koreans. Mr.. Matsuzawa intro
duced DR.. Doremus SGudder as the
| first speaker.
1T is fortunate that DR.. Harris is
going to the mainland at this time y
said Dr. Scudder. He will have an
opportunity to present to the people
the arguments in favor of naturaliza-
ton for the Japanese who are work
| ing to become true American citizens.
We in Hawaii have had an OppOr-
tunity of watching the case or Jap
anese who wished to become an
American citizen, and with Dr.. Harris
on the coast, and knowing the Jap
anese as he does. am sure that he
will be able to do a great work among
the Christian people on the mainland. '
Consul Arita Soeaks for Good Feeling.