The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-01
JAPANESE ARE
APPREHENSIVE
California Land Contro.
versy With y. S. Is
Unsettling
BY DAVID N. PARRY
international News Service STAFF
Correspondent

(lnternatlOnal news service Stau
Correspondent
TOXIC, Japan.-The nation OF
Japan, from its youngest reading
citizens to it's most calm statesman,
views the present conferences with
America with more apprehension
than has been the case in past Cali
fornia discussions. The anti-Japanese
feeling in the past, it is pointed out,
has come at election time and has
been due to other influences, per-
haps, but, as one of the most pro-
American statesmen of the Japanese
Empire said recently: California,
for America, now propose to kick
the Japanese out of California, not
through diplomatic means, not in the
usual way that international ques-
lions are handled, but rudely, and
without regard to the sensitiveness
OF every man, woman and child OF
the Japanese nation"
AS Japan hears more and more
about the true feeling in California,
the nation realizes that the State OF
California means to carry out its
threat this time. Added to the Cali
fornia question are numerous others
which are being used by politicians
OF Japan, by the press, in some parts
OF it, and numerous others inflame
the public here against the United
States. While statesmen try to settle
the California question amicably, the
politicians here who are actuated by
purely selfish motives talk of the &C
tivities of American missionaries in
Korea, where, it must be admitted
these same politicians are able to find
some excuses for complaint.
They are agitated, too, by the de-
mands of the United States regarding
Saghalien. They do not forget the
Jones bill and what it will do to Jap
anese trans-pacific shipping - and
while these questions come up for
consideration in the public mind, la
Dor troubles, strikes, high prices and
general internal trouble tend I'd in
flame the public against the nation
which section of the press and po-
litical leadership of Japan insist on
painting do tuC culdut tcTIlulS VI
the world.
Blame Our Missionaries
Korea is question which many
Americans overlook in a considera-
tion of Acknowledgements relations.
1t is fact that the present Govern
ment of Korea is having no easy time
of 1t in keeping down the nationalistic
ambitions of the Koreans. Within
the last few weeks, closely following
the Congressional party's visit to
Korea, one newspaper which is
charged with having published arti-
cles inimical to the administration in
Korea has been suspended, arrests of
malcontents have increased, and so
serious is the situation regarded that
one paper in Toxic reports prepara-
lions to send Japanese army gen.
darmes to Korea to replace the mill
tary police there are being considered
One OF the most radical of the Toxic
papers attributes the entire anti-Jap-
anese trouble in Korea to American
missionaries. The newspaper, in a
series Of attacks on the United States
and its citizens, publishes the follow
ing article on the Korean trouble:
When America wants to acquire
the territory of another country she
either overawes that country by her
military power or she sends to the
coveted territory missionaries whose
duty it is to spread the gospel of the
universal love of God, thereby spell
binding the people and making easy
the accomplishment of Americas OBJ
ject. That is the usual tactics of the
Americans.
Americans Assist Mobs.
I'm the Korean Mansei disturb
ances of last year, the mobs were in
stigated and assisted by Americans,
while throughout America and the
whole world it was reported with ma
l1cious insinuations that Japanese