The Arizona copper camp., 1920-03-13
A Refutation of Some SANDERS and ;
Plea for Mutual Understanding

The director general of the Toxic
! division of the Imperial Japanese rail
ways, Yoshio Kinoshita, writes to a
! banker friend in Omerica:
''It is a matter of regret that we
have not few Influential vernaculal
newspapers and publicists of high
social standing that speak in an in
jured tone of the waywardness with
which Americans are alleged to dis
pose Of international questions. How
ever, we are at the same time fully
i aware, from American cablegrams re
i ceived daily at Tokyo, that malicious
comments of various sorts are thrown
A at our country, and it is really re gret
table that senators of power have
even gone so far as to attack Japar
quite unresewedly in your senate.
i From what l have heard, 1 gather
that their points are the rigorous
treatment by the Japanese govern
ment toward the Chosen (Korea) peo
! pie, heavy oppression brought upor
! China in regard to the Shantung ques
\ tions, and such like. Unfortunately
| some of our troops the other day took
unreasonable measures against the
Chosen people, but the present gov
ernment as well as our nation did moi
overlook the sad event, and the gov
ernment has already taken necessary
steps to deal severely with those re
| sponsible therefor.
| However, it seems that most OF
your people are passing judgment
upon our country also in this connec
tion upon entirely false information
4 l saw in a magazine recently received
a picture illustrating Japanese troop
numbering Chosen people hung on
4 crosses, with an explanation that this
| is just the way the japanese are treat
/ ing those people. AS the soldiers
| shown in the picture wore uniforms
and CATERS entirely different from
those now in use, examined it close
| ly and found that it was the picture
showing officials of the former Kore
an kingdom, with a Japanese troop on
watch, executing at, the time of the
/ Russo-Japanese war, more than ten
years ago, Korean spies who worked
for the Russian army. 1t is quite alb
| surd that Influential papers and mag
azines in your country should be au-
1 dacious enough to show such old pic
lures and try to make the public be-
lieve that they illustrate recent
events. They seem to leave no stone
| unturned to find out something 0,
other, however groundless and false
| it may be, to shout out most unscrup.
ulously all manner Of abuses against
our people. In connection with ,Chos.
en- affairs, however, Japan has come
to recognize the necessity of estab.
fishing some new forms of govern
ment to supersede the former ones
and has already altered the govern.
ment organization of Chosen. The
governor general and other officials
have been changed, and police sys.
tenn introduced to take the place of
the former gendarmerie for the con.
troll of the people.
Will ekep Word on Shantung
MOT alone in the Chosen question
but in any other matters, the Japan
csc nation and their government new
er hesitate to meet the requirement
OF the times and to rectify whenever
necessary AS regards the Shantung
question, however, it is quite differ
ent from the Chosen affair. 1t goes
without saying that the demands made
by our people and government in this
connection, are only right and just,
and that announcements repeatedly
made by our country will be carried
into practice most faithfully in the
future. If there are people who speak
i'll of us in regard thereto, they are,
am confident, utterly ignorant of the
true situation.
I'm the Siberian question, too, there
are some people who are near sighted
enough to think that Japan and Amer
ica have nothing in common in their
interests, and are doing all sorts of
things which may possibly lead to rup-
ture between the two nations. In a
case where several people offer assist
ance to man in want at a time, a
human weakness will sometimes ap-
pear in him to try to please all by
flattering one of them and abusing the
others before him. 1t is from no
other than this human frailty that