AMERICA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 307, 20 May 1913, Page 5

AMERICA AND JAPAN.

THE COLOR LINE. A SENSATIONAL SPEECH. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 19, 11.20 p.m. Washington, May 19. Mr. Bryan, with reference to the Alien Land Bill, denounced subsidised patriotism. Sensational mercenary newspapers preferred scare headlines to the truth. The Asiatic Exclusion Society is petitioning for a referendum on the Bill. . Mr. Valentine Chirol, writing to the Times, says that the Californian-Japa-nese dispute threatens to force to a definite issue Japan's claim for equal treatment with other world Powers. A question Jias 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. Mr. Chirol argues that the color bar canot be logically pleaded by a country which waged war to confer equal citizenship on American negroes. It adds that Japan has already shaken the colored races' acquiescence in the white man's claim to pre-eminence and dominion.