Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-08-31
JAPAN'S DESIRE
 IS FRIENDSHIP
 WITH THE WORLD
Vlscount Isllii Delivers In teresting Address In Cham
 Der of the Senate.

Washington, Aug. 30.-In present
 ing Viscount 1shii, special ambassa-
 dor and head of the Japanese mis-
 sion, to the senate today, Senator
 Salisbury, president pro tempore of the senate and acting in the absence of Vice President Marshall, declared
 the occasion "symbolizes special in ternational fraternity which common
 consciousness of information honor has brought about"
 Viscount Ishii was enthusias stically welcomed by the senator's, and spoke { as follows:
 The Visc0unt's Talk. 1 "No words at my command can give expression to the profound apprecia- tion I have of this honor you confer l upon us. We know full we'll the ex- alted dignity and the proud traditions l of this illustrious branch of the great legislature of the United States and ] in the name of my country, my mis- sion and myself, thank you most sin 1 cerelv
 'I grasp this occasion to say to you | that the whole people of Japan hearti- ly welcome and profoundly appreciate the entrance of this mighty nation of 1 yours into the struggle against the insane dcspoiler of our civilization. ! We all know that you threw your l mighty weight into the struggle only l after exercising most admirable patience with firm determination That fi1ie ob ho from the threat of aggression from l that black shadow of military des- I potism wielded by a nation taught with the mothers milk that human | rights must yield to brutal might To Us the fact that you are now on the l side of the allies III this titanic strug- gle constitutes already great moral victory for our common cause, which ! Wc believe to be the cause of right and justice
 we of Japan, believe we under stand something of the American ideal of life and we pay our most profound respects to it. Jefferson, your great democratic president, saw l Americans. not as a set of people 1 hudd1ed together under the muzzIes of machine guns, but he saw them as myriad of independent and free
 men, as individuals, only relying on ] combined military force for pro- | lection gainst aggression from abroad or treachery from within. Not machiEe-made nation, but liv- Ing, growing organism, animated by one passion-the passion of liberty. National Ideals Alike. l Il assure you, gentlemen, that the Japanese ideal of national life is, in It's final analysis, not so very far re- moved from yours. We conceive of our nation as vast family, held to- gether not by the arbitrary force of armed men, but by the force of a na- l tural development. We shall call the common force that anmates us a pas- sion of loyalty to our emperor and to our homes, as we shall call that of Americans passion for liberty and loyalty to their flag.
 "We of Japan took up arms against | Germany because a solemn treaty.
 was not to us a scrap of paper.' We i did not enter into this war because
 we had any selfish interest to pro-
 mote or any ill-conceived ambition to | gratify. We are in the war; insist l on being in it, and we shall stay in it
 because earnestly, as nation and as 1 individuals, we believe in the right l eousness of the cause for which we stand, because we believe only by complete victory for that cause can there be made righteous. honorable | and permanent peace, SO that this | world may be made safe for all men | to live in, and so that all nations may work out their destinies untrammeled by fear
 Whatever the critic half informed,
 or the hired slanderer may say against us, in forming your judgment
 of Japan, we ask you only to use those splendid abilities that guide
 this great nation. The criminal plot
 ter against our good neighborhood
 takes advantage of the fact that at
 this time of the worlds crisis, many
 things must of necessity remain un-
 told and unreccrded in the daily news
 papers, but we are satisfied that we
 are doing our best In this tremen-
 d0us work as we move together,
 shoulder to shoulder, to a certain vic-
 tory, America and Japan must have
 many things in which the one can help
 the other. We have much in common
 and much tC do in concert That is
 the reason l have been sent and that
 is the reason you have received me
 here today"