The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-05
ISHII BRINGS TOKEN
OF JAPAN'S ESTEEM
Presents Sword to Fair Haven
in Memory of Whalcr's
Friendship.

FAIR HAVEN, Mass, July 4.--The Jap
anese Ambassador Viscount Ishii, con-
Guided an address here to-day with this
message from the people OF Japan to
the people of America:
I'VE trust you: we love you. and IL
you will let us we will walk at your side
in loyal good fellowship down all the
coming years"
The Ambassador made of the presen-
tation to the town of japanese sword
an occasion OF international signifl-
canoe. by the expression of sentiments
In harmony with the nature OF the holi.
day. He told how the father Of DR..
Nakahama. who had sent the historic
symbol of chivalric honor and virtue,
lad been befriended by the old time
Whaling master Capt William II. Whit
Held OF Fair Haven, and said the Gift
was token that the japanese heart was
responsive and did not forget a kindness.
He added:
THE great Book which you love and
whose precepts underlie all that is best
In your civilization. says: Cast thy
bread upon the waters. for thou shall
find 1t after many days.
More Than Personal Incident.
Upon that beautiful promise, which
l interpret to mean that good things
never die; that noble actions sooner or
later come back in harvests of blessed
ness Is founded the truest incentive
which men have for right living and
right acting.
This gift is rendered TO YOU at n
time in the affairs of a troubled world
when men are asking IL the old time
virtues of gratitude and honor still nold
their places in the human heart. II
comes at a time when America and
Japan stand linked and resolute in de-
fence OF cause which is so holy so
Just and right that all other consider
atoms vanish to nothingness.
There is wider significance to this
grateful act Of DR. Nakahama than the
simple recognition of personal kind
ness II is typical OF that rising wave
OF sympathy and good understanding
which begins to roll across the Pacific
ocean and promises to flood both lands
with the sweet waters OF fraternity and
good will
IF you will accept in this wider
sense this token OF DIR. Nakahama' $
gratitude, you will give 1t significance
IN which every right thinking and right
feeling man and woman on both sides
OF the ocean will find unalloyed salts
faction.
Sword symbol OF Honor.
ITO the old Samural OF Japan, whose
spirit Is reflected in the act Of DR.. Naka-
hama. the sword was the symbol of spot
less honor. His right to wear II signified
his worthiness to use II Alright. In no
other way could loyal Japanese as ef-
fectually tell you of his loving confidence
and deep esteem. The donor would
haze you preserve II not only as a monu-
ment to the memory Of a good man. but
as token of Japanese good will.
'Dr. Nakahama would say to the de-
scendants Of those who were kind to his
revered father that which the whole
Japanese people would say to the people
of America: We trust you've love
you. and, II you will let us. we will walk
at your side In loyal good fellowship
down all the coming years."
Earlier In the day Viscount Ishii took
part in an Independence Day parade at
New Bedford. and in a speech declared
that the Vaccinations OF Germany were
Intended to cause dissension among the
members of the Entente.