The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-30
Oriental ViscOunt Ishii We'll
comes America in War.
Senator Salisbury Says Yellow
Peril German Make.
CAUSE UNIVERSAL JUSTICE
japanese Ideal of National Life
Similar to Ours.
Both Nations Vast Family Held
Together by Freedom.

Washington, Aug 30.--In present.
ing Vtscouut Ishii special ambassa-
dor and head of the Japanese mission
to the senate today Senator Salisbury
or Delaware, president pro tempore
of the senate and acting in the alb
sence of Vice-President Marshall, de-
clared the occasion "symbolizes spe-
eial international fraternity which
common consciousness of information
al honor has brought about"
Referring to German propaganda,
Senator Salisbury said evil attempts
had been made to breed distrust and
hatred among friends of the United
States.
Japan" he continued, 'joins our
great young nation in pledg1ng anew
a continuance of our old friendship
which the trouble makers of the earth
have tried to hard to interrupt.
I'VE welcome this opportunity to
heartily congratulate our old friends
who honor us today.
Germans Made yellow PERIL
"The yellow peril was made in
Germany and Shangtung was seized,
the SlaV peril was made in Germany
and Serbia was overwhelmed, and
Russia was invaded; but the thick
willed, SNUG self centered superInen
of Germany, entering their attcclpt
"a real peril to themselveS-and the
free nations who believe in interna-
tional honor in the binding force of
treaties and in the pledged word
are grimly tho so sorrowfully en-
gagged in creating, perfecting and
bringing to successful issue Hnalliance
for the benefit of all the ea-th's pee
pie. which will protect the rights of
nations, small and great and enable
them to lead their lives in peace and
lead them unafraid."
Ishii Addresses Senate.
Viscount Ishii addressed the senate
as follows:
mo words at my command can give
expression to the profound apprecia-
ton l have of this honor you confer
upon us. We know full well the ex-
alted dignity and the proud traditions
of this illustrious branch of the great
legislature of the United States and
in the name of my country, my mis-
sion and myself, I thank you most
sincerely.
THE whole people of Japan heart
lily welcome and profoundly appreciate
yours into the struggle against the in
sane despoiler of our civilizations.
we all know that you did not un-
dertake this solemn task on the i'm
pulse of the moment; but that you
threw your mighty weight into the
struggle only after exercising a most
admirable patience with a firm deter
imitation that this world shall be
made free from the threat of aggres-
sion, from that black shadow of a
military despotism welded by a ma
ton taught with the mothers milk
that human rights must yield to brutal
might.
Means Universal Justice.
ITO us the fact that you are now on
the side of the allies in this titanic
struggle constitutes already a great
moral victory for our common cause,
which we believe to be the cause of
right and Justice, for the strong as for
the weak, for the great as for the
small.
I'VE of Japan believe we under
stand something of the American ideal
of life and we pay our most profound
respects to it.
The Japanese Ideal.
The japanese ideal Of .etional life
is in its final analysis not so very far
removed from yours. We conceive of
our nation as vase family, held to-
gether not by the arbitrary force of
armed men, but by the force of a nat
ural development.
I'VE shall call the common force
that animates us a passion of LOYALTY
to our emperor and to our homes. as
we shall call that of Americans a PAS
sion for liberty and of loyalty to their
flag.
Our common enemy is not content
with this freedom for the nation or
for the individual, he must force all
n.