The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-10
|GARY URGES US.
 TO KEEP UP TIES WITH JAPANESE
Head of Steel Corporation Addresses Meeting of the
 Japan Society.

New York, Nov. 10-Speaking en-
 Enthusiastically of his trip to Japan,
 Ebert H. Gary, president of the
 United States Steel Corporation, told a ! gathering of bankers and business
 men at the luncheon of the Japan So- ciety in the rooms of the Bankers Club, 120 Broadway, yesterday that every patriot of this country was un- l der obligation to resist with all his influence any effort to embro1 Ja-
 pan and America. He spoke most l cordially of the hospitality of his re-
 ception in the foreign land. and said | that prominent visitors were even in- vited by wireless before they reach ] ed Japan to attend luncheons and
 meetings in their honor. His observa-
 tions led him to believe, hes aid, that
 Japana never before had been so prosperous as now, and even the peasant class, crushed by taxes during
 the last fifteen years, was beginning
 to show evidences of comparative pros perity and well-being.
 l MT, Gary said that he had gone to
 some pains to determine the sentiment
 of the Japanese toward America, and
 had drawn the conclusion that the | 10dOlIS HIGH CuCIS were duAiOuS IO
 keep peace.
 'I have no doubt" he said, "that l the leading and controlling men in ] Japan earnestly desire to maintain cordial, close, and continuous rela- 1 tipns with the people of the United States. It seems to me, if we ever 1 have serious trouble with Japan it will be as much the fault of Japan 1 and perhaps more. There is no need f of serious trouble, nor of any trou- ble that cannot be removed by mu- l tual, satisfactory and amicable ad- 1 justment. We cannot, we ought nev- CT to try to blink these facts. Every patriot is under obligation to resist
 with all his influence any effort to participate in or stir up trouble be- tween these two nations
 There have been pending, there
 still may be undetermined, questions
 of dispute between Japan and the
 United States or some one of the States If so,. it behooves every loyal
 citizen to inquire and to ascertain
 what are the merits, and to urge with all his strength that every question be settled upon it's merits. No important difference can be finally and forever settled unless it is settled right. If otherwise disposed of it will come up again and again to plague the one who is in the wrong. As a matter
 of course, this applies to both coun-
 tries. If the failure to settle a pend-1
 ing question in accordance with the
 principles of honesty and justice is
 the fault of a State, a country, or a
 city, there are methods which can be
 used by the government, even though tedious and disagreeable, to enforce it's decisions.s'
 Among the guests were: Mayor Mitchell, Lewis L.. Clarke, F. D. Under wood, U. N. Bethell, Willard D. Straight, w. H. Marshall John A. Sleicher, Stephen Baker, Jerome D. Greene, George w. Perkins, William North Duane, George w. Wicker sham, pr. J. Takamine, R. Ichinomiya, Charles D. Norton, E. P. Thomas. George Blumenthal, Ramsay Peug- net, Howard Mansfield, Herman A. Metz, Louis Wiley, Anton G. Holden py1, Leroy w. Baldwin, R. Arai, George Foster Peabody, Alton B. Parker, R. Fulton Cutting, B. F. Yoakum, F. V. s. Crosby, John B. Stanchfield, K. Seko, Melville B. Stone, A. s. Frissell, Commander K. Nomura, George T. Wilson.