SUBSIDISED PATRIOTISM.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 20 May 1913, Page 5

SUBSIDISED PATRIOTISM.

STRONG CRITICISM.

*t CABLE— PBEBB ASSOCIATION —COPYBIGHT, WASHINGTON, May 19. Mr Bryan, witli reference to tne Alien Land Bill, de nounced subsidised patriotism, {sensational mercenary newspapers preferred scare headlines to tne trutn. The Asiatic Exclusion Society is petitioning for a referendum on the Bill.

Sir Valentine Chirol, writing to the Times, says that the Calirornian-Japa-nese dispute threatens to force to a definite issue Japan's claim for equal treatment with other world Powers. A question had been raised which diplomacy had hitherto been at pains to elude by skilful compromises. It was dangerous at the present time, because the centre of Japan's political stability was shifting rapidly from a small group of experienced statesmen hitherto controlling the national forces. Sir Valentine argues that the color bar cannot be logically pleaded by a country which waged war to confer equal citizenship on American negroes. He adds that Japan has already shaken the colored races' acquiescence in the white man's claim to pre-eminence and dominion.

(Sir Valentine Cnirol is head of the Foreign Department of the Times and has travelled extensively, especially in the East. His articles on Indian unrest in 1910 aroused world-wide interest; he was Knighted in 1912.