The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-09-25
j APPS AROUSED
BY AGITATION
IN CALIFORNIA
Suggestions That Joint High
Commission Be Appointed to
Find Solution Are Made
SAY WAR WOULD BE FATAL
Japanese Could Not Hope to
Gain from a Conflict, and
Steady Policy is Urged
(By Associated PresS)

Toxic, Sept. 25.-Suggestions tha,
a joint high commission be appointed
to find solution of the California
problems appear to be favored in
responsible circles here. Viscount
kantar kaneko, private councillor, Wis
count Shibusaw, chairman Of the To-
kio bankers association and Premier
Hara have been comforting and tho
impression has been gained that the
proposition for joint commission
was the outgrowth of meetings OF
prominent Americans and Japanese
here last spring.
Details are as yet nebulous, bat the
Asahi Shimbun, OF Osaka, says the
underlying idea is for President Will
son to name a commission, including
the secretary of state, some senators
and representatives and also we'll
qualified Japanese like Vicount Taxa
aki Kato, former Japanese ambassa :
dor to Great Britain. Succeeding
steps, the newspaper says, would be
Japanese insistence upon treaty rights
and then an appeal to the supreme
court of the United States asking that
operations of California statutes be
suspended The newspaper believes
the Japanese public is generally pes
simistic over present negotiations II
Washington and has tendency to
criticise the cabinet for adopting what
shift policy"
Don't Won't War
Unnamed peers are quoted as coun-
cilling the government to exercise the
greatest patience in dealing with Am
erica as they are positive any other
attitude would be suicidal. They
point out that if she resorted to arms
Japan's first step would be neces-
sarjly the withdrawal of all Japanese
in America, which, they assert, would
greatly please Americans.
Suspension of commercial inter-
course would have the most dire con
sequences to Japan, they declare, and
il Japan should succeed in landing
troops on American soil the Amer.
leans would not suffer as much as
Japanese. They point out that should
Japanese on the contrary, suffer de-
feat her fate would be sealed and
therefore it would be the wisest to
await favorable turn in the situa-
ton, placing full confidence in the
character and principles Of the Amer
ican people.
Newspapers print long reports
about the anti-Japanese movement in
America and also publish contribu"
tions from both notable and unknown
Japanese in which attention is CALI
ed to the seriousness of the situation,
which even a conservative leader like
Vicount Shibusawa is quoted as char
acterizing as more or less strained.'
These reports have the effect of in
fluencing and exciting the masses OF
the people and open discussion OF
the question of war does not tend to-
ward calming the situation.
Representatives of the Japanese
government have asserted the situa-
ton might be used by elements Of
unrest in the empire o>create serious
internal disturbances.
Labor leaders are said to voice op-
enly the opinion that smoldering dis
content prevails among workers, many
of whom are alleged to have become
infected with socialism bordering on
Bolshevism as repercussion Of events
in Russia and the socialist movement
in Europe.