THE STATES AND JAPAN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 604, 6 September 1909, Page 7

THE STATES AND JAPAN.

, *, ~ ri ♦ 1 ! 1" ,,, ' COMMERCIAL' MISSION. "i ' ; |Uf To!cj;rnph,-rrcaa Astoclallon -CocjflchlJ ' j , J Mew York, September 3. , , ; Fertj-sii. representatives of tho Chambers, i of Comtneroo of Tqiuo, Osaka, and Kioto'; ■ ljavo arrived ot Seattle, Washington Tern- ' torjj on 0 thrco montliE , visit to America. ' Tho visit is made- 'with tho \tyw' of < , I strengthening tho bonds of friendship and!' ' promotiiig tra<3o betivoon llio two oountiieeJ . , >_ 1 ! ' ;' Vr|E IMMIGRATION PROBLEM. ' - r I EXCLUSION OF JIPAHLSE, LlßOUEtis. j

'Xha lnnnicration question as between Japan J and tho Uuittd State lb again likely to bo , < brought into niominenco bj the unoxpected I jburauions to tue Oapajioo ambassador Iβ tho< J United btul«s. JJaioh Vakahira, to go al J hoinu'to Tokjo to |WUi o\er file negotiation , ) j , -J for a ucu treilj. "TJio present treaty fcaviJ, 1 j tue Ainencm corrcspinideut of tlio ■, Jlormtag lictuld") expi.vs I , ) limitation in 1911, j j and unices a netf om' blidttlll hi! , bgriisd uppu j i before next unite), U would ha>e to run wo 1 ; risk, vh«u undo, ot tlio bonito finding timo J to ratify it At tho short (clc\en weckb) s«6610U of 1911—for uiauy luasoni a hocaid to bo avoided, if possible" Ibe pi<esctit Japanese i Government (Katsura) 11 regarded iu the States i as ,icanmt to the ftuln/.ry pirlr, and & dlf-v hcult position would an» shoulu it decline to f _ r«ot.\o Tikalfira's itfioiT that modificalicns,." dcsireJ bj Japan i.i tlifi ilrca,tv nro not trhv'/ hoped for, and appoint a no« ambassador Tlio ■'; conebpondent adds , ( s "Tho picsont treat) sprcificaJy gives nosh- 5 inetou tlio right tu usjhu'o .lapine lnbonrem 3 > I and this is viewed ,\t XuWo as an msulUng I discrimination W'jshmglbn leplitfs that cAcli J without this form.il declaration, it «ouM still ■ "liaMi tlio light to exclude, and, sinco American opinion would forco Ui« exewi£e>of thrf right . ogainst Japanese, even tboiisli silent as to i '; the ctclmion of Ihiropoan'labpurers, it 19 ' i better to di'cnihittitc, if at all, with rather \ than tntl.out such normal notice jNo labourers ' . niSe wanted here to whom thu law , refuses the i right of naturalisation ; and that Congress will J i over guo ycllou ireu tlo right (o'become ; ' citizens is utterly inconceivable _ It is not ' easy, o\cn for Japanese, «ho lia\e bc*u"eili> " cattd here, to realise the strongth of (ho racial prejudice in tho nund of tho average Anion- f : ca.n, for thc\ mix onlj" in the little Kindly k world of then own aiaiicni) or college, or of; tho society to wlucij their nwmboriklp in' them is a passport. What i the hard, outer world of struggling 'bread-winnors is like reinainj oven ung>i«s;d nt| and the? carry home with th«in an ovcr-sanguino ■ viow of what is possible "Recent events in .Hawaii,, where Japanese -» coglicu are and ara m n majority, and have organised >wrct societies which are ! accused of disloyalty, hive greitlj ttrenpth. cued tmti-Japanofo rodling , on the mainland! and a tenous not there might lead to a prohibition of future arrivals, and even to \ notice of graduil deportation. Baroo Taka> lura himself has in Ins brief term of pemco j bocowo generally popular, and on: the Glorious FonrtH dohvercd tiro oration ot honoui in : riuladelphia at Ind«pendcnco Hall, from tho vary site whero tho American nation, ivrs bovn-'*