The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-08-18
AMERICA and JAPAN,
HEAD OF JAPANESE, MISSION
SPEAKS OF NEW DAY AND
BETTER UNDERSTAND.
ING.
Says "Nlarch Together, Work TOgcth-
or and Fight Together as Com
radcs."

A Pacific Port, Aug. 14.--A new
day among nations, in which Japan
end America shall forget the little
mole hills that have been exaggerated
into mountains to bar our good re-
lations," and march together, work
together and fight together as COM
rades," was pledged here tonight by
Viscount K. Ishii, ambassador extra
ordinary and plenipotentiary to the
United States.
Heading special mission, Wis
count Ishii spoke for his government
at a dinner rendered him by this
municipality. The ambassador said:
I'VE come to you at the dawning
Of a new day. AS individuals we
have no right to- expect to find place
at this busy time Of preparation. But
tives Of the gracious sovereign Of a
friendly and loyal nation, and we say
that We know we'll that performance
not profession, deeds not words, sac
rifices not selfishness, are the re-
quisites of the hour.
"Our message is that in this day,
through it's hours of shadow or OF
sunshine, your purpose is our pur-
pose, your road our road and your
goal our goal. 1t is that America
and Japan will march together,
work together and fight together as
comrades until the end has been
reached and the victory won in the
struggle which involves our rights
and our liberties.
1T is for that-and l take the lib
erty Of using the words Of your great
President, Abraham Lincoln-in or
der that each of us may enjoy an
open field and a fair chance for our
industry and intelligence that the
struggle must be maintained; that
right Of humanity.
I'VE are here to say that in this
tremendous struggle for those rights
and liberties. America and Japan are
bound together; that when the vic
tory of the allied force is secure.
America and Japan should SO live
that your sons and our sons will
have certainty of good neighbor-
hood; so live that no word or deed
Of either can be looked upon with
suspicion; that venomous gossip
hired slander, sinister intrigue and
influence Of which we have both
been the victims, can in the futu.n
only serve to bring us close tog eth
er for mutual protection and for tho
common welfare.
'The Importance of this coopera-
ton was brought home to us par
ticularly as we voyaged safely and
pleasantly across the Pacific ocean.
1t becomes the first duty of Japan
and America to guard this Pacific
and to insure safe continuous inter-
course between Asia and the United
States; to see to it that the ships of
the ferocious pirates whose crimes
upon the high seas can never be pal
lated, find no shelter in the wa
tcrs of our sea.
1T is for us together to continue TO
enforce respect for law and human
ity upon the Pacific, from which the
German menace was removed at the
commencement Of the war. Had this
not been so; had the barbarians of
Europe not been rooted from his
Oriental bases the shuddering horrors
Of the Atlantic and the Mediterran-
can would today be grim reality en-
the Pacific. In the protection Of our
seagoing merchandise and men, in
safeguarding the pleasures of inter
course, you may coun, on us, aud
we must count on you.
"In the dawning of this new day
Of stress and strain let us forget the
little mole hills that have been ex-
aggerated into mountains to bar our
good relations. Let us see together
with a clearer vision the pitfalls dug
by a cunning enemy in our path. Let
star Of principle which shall lead us
together most surely to a participa-
tion in the triumph of the right, to
certain victory in the greatest and
let us hope, the last great war in
human history.
And when that victory shall have
been won, let us together help in the
upbuilding of new world, which