PACIFIC CONTROL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 24, 13 September 1911, Page 8

PACIFIC CONTROL.

JAPANESE AMBASSADOR ON THE SUBJECT. Here is an extract from a brilliant speech by the Japanese Ambassador to the United States —Baron Uchida—which has attracted much attention in New York:— “Gentlemen,” ho said, “have you ever considered those two Hags, the flags of our countries? Have you failed to note that the patriot fathers who designed them have made it forever impossible foi us to fight? “There have been wars of the Cross and the Crescent, of the Red Rose and the White, but the Sun and the Stars have never quarrelled in their courses, neither shall the two flags which hear those celestial emblems ever he carried at the heads of hostile armies. It is unthinkable, impossible. They talk of rivalry, of the control of the Pacific; as if an ocean whose area is greater than that of all the continents combined could ever 1)0 controlled by any one Power. My people mav bo ambitions, but they mive no ambition so great as that. No; our ambition is not to see our flag ‘dominate the Pacific,’ but to sec the firmament that arches over that ocean hung with the mingled splendours of our two banners—the star-spangled ensign of America and the sun-flag of Japan—lit'Kvitlr’ morning effulgence and jewelled with starry radiance. Sooner shall the day and night fly to arms to decide who shall rule that Sea of Peace than the two great nations that dwell on its opposite shores fall out over the destinies assigned to each by Nature’s laws. “There is one glory of the sun,’and another glory of the moon, and one star differeth from another star in glory, but there is pom in tho ample gbits of the sky—tnore is room,” concluded Baron Uchida, “in the spacious purnoses of history—for tue glory of all!” These words, spoken at a banquet in New York in celebration of the ratified t ion of the new treaty Dotween too United States and Japan, ought to put to shame tho exclamations of short-sighted jingoes (says the World’s Work). The Ambassador pointed to the two flags that hung draped behind the toastmaster’s chair when lie made that speech.