The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1920-08-27
JAPANESE SAYS
We CAN'T DISAGREE
Good Fellowship Prevails
Between The Two
Countries

washington, Aug. 2O.-An impor-
tant statement by NJ. Hanihara, Jap
anese Vice Minister OF Foreign Az
lens of the Pacific. was published in
Toxic today, according to advices re-
ceived in Washington.
The Vice Minister asserted that he
could not see any possible cause for
a clash between the United States and
Japan. and that the questions in is
sue between the two countries should
be approached in a spirit of right
feeling and sympathetic understand
ing
"Many far-sighted men," the Vice
Minister is reported to have said,
"predict that the Pacific ocean would
become the chief theater of world
events, and this prophecy now seems
In a fair way to be realized.
High Time To Awaken.
Never before have the relations
between the United States and ia
pan, two of the principal countries
bordering on that ocean, attained
their present degree of importance.
at is high time to my mind, for
people on both sides of the Pacific
to awaken to the significance of the
new era that has dawned and ponder
with earnestness things that concern
them Jointly.
Both here and in America there
certainly have been men, broad
minded and forward-looking men,
who, with almost religious ardor,
have advocated the good relation
ship Of the two nations. I am sec
ond to none in doing homage to these
Jealous workers for the noble cause
they have espoused.
at appears to me, however, that
1t is not enough for a handful of
representative japanese and Ameri-
cans to talk Of good will and mutual
friendship around dinner tables and
in formal messages.
Right Feeling Is Needed.
what is above all needed right
now is right feeling, sympathetic I'M
Outstanding and generous treatment
of one another on the part of the two
peoples as a whole. II is this char
table attitude of the popular mind
that every true friend of Japanese
American amity should endeavor to
cultivate.
"Not that | see any possible cause
for clash between this country and
the United States. but the sort of
irritation and pin-pricking that has
been INDUCED in on both sides, If
permitted to go on indefinitely will,
i fear, create an atmosphere which
may lead to almost anything.
1.-THE Japanese question in Cali
fornia, for instance, has done more
than anything else to ripple the 9TH
erwise smooth surface of our inter-
relationship But no vital interest of
either country is necessarily involv-
ed in this question. 1t is only To-
cal affair, as so many of the American
" friends of Japan are accustomed to
call it by way of dismissing it. Why
should it, then, be suffered to re-
main standing source of mischief.
Must Get Rid of Friction.
eff right feeling and proper under
standing prevailed on each side and
opinion were brought to bear on it..
the entire question would be solved
edge of appreciation of each other
and an inability to think the other
fellows mind are what lie at the
root of all that goes to disturb our
peaceful intercourse.
1.-THE possibilities of a cordial rela-
tionship and harmonious co-opera-
ton between these two nations of the
Pacific are so tremendously great and
the interests at stake so vast and far
reaching that we cannot afford to
trifle or NEEDLE with any question,
however trivial in itself, that is of
no common concern to u.s.
eve must go straightway to the
root of every anti-Japanese and anti
American agitation or movement with
The ak of ruthless publicity and edu-
cation. Light must be thrown on
dark places, no sore must be allowed
TO tester unknown.
"If both parties are determined on
a square deal, we may look forward
with absolute confidence to lasting
peace and friendship on the Pacific 4"