AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 333, 21 October 1908, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

FLEET'S VISIT. A POLICY OF FRIENDSHIP FOR ALL. (by telegraph—riiuss association—corritiouT.) Now York, October 19. The comments of tho American press on tho fleet's visit to Japan.are hopeful and cordial. The "Washington Post" declares: "Such an unusually hospitable reception ends all talk of war.'' \ The "New York Tribune" thinks the equal enthusiasm and sincerity of the fleet's welcome by Australia and Japan must bo considered a'unique tributo to the position the United States occupies among her neighbours, and one of the finest practical applications of the rule that America must avoid entangling alliances and cultivate the friendship of all. NO WAR PARTY IN JAPAN.

"As regards the , American question," writes tho Bishop of South Tokio (Dr. Awdry) to "The Times," "tho Japancsa Government has been bo perfectly steady, has distinguished so clearly throughout between the local labour troubles of the west coast and tho unmistakable attitude of President Roosevelt and his Government, that I should really have thought it quite needless to say anything, had I not personally mot with the Governor of the Bank of England, who was seriously anxious and full of questions on the subject. When this was the. case, it is obvious that such rumours of wars must have had some financial influence detrimental to Japan and indirectly to the world. The one. thing about which Japan cares in this mnttor, so far as I can see, is not that the Japanese should be able to go and settle in America—indeed, it would be much botter for Japan that they'should settle elsewhere—but simply that the J apaneso should not be differentiated against, as a nation on a lower levol than other nations of tho world. If their exclusion rests on principles applicable to all other nations, or if Japan is recognised as entirely at liberty to do exactly the samo to America, England, or any other nation as is dono to her, no, dangerous situation would arise.' Suffice it to say that though thore are, of course, some hotbloods in Japan a3 elsewhere, there 'never has been even an infinitesimal war party on tho subject. Ono roads the anxieties of the yellow press in. tho West with nothing but amusement."