Show TRADE WITH JAPAN Mr Massena Maeda exviceminister of agriculture ol Japan is In Washington I Washing-ton The object of his visit there is to advance ff possible the trade relations between Japan and this country He says his countrymen are very anxious to trade with us and that we do not appreciate the fact that they prefer to trade with Americans to any one else This is all very good news and everything every-thing possible should be done to encourage en-courage trade relations which means 1 friendly relations Every tradition of both countries towards each other is in favor of the friendliest intercourse and nothing should be permitted to destroy those traditions It is said that Japan will entertain very unfriendly if not hostile feelings towards this country if it annees the Hawaiian islands This is not necessarily the case as it has been distinctly and repeatedly declared by eminent Japanese in official position that their country did not want Hawaii and had no intention of annexing the islands IT they are to be annexed to the United States naturally Japan Is solicitous that her subjects who have acquired commercial and other rights in Hawaii shall be protected in them I She could ask nothing less and this country would do nothing less than this thisThis This country does not get that proportion pro-portion of Japans trade that it should and would if it were property cultivated culti-vated Englandsends to Japan about five times as much as the United States do This Is not as It should be Geographically Geo-graphically we are in a better position to command trade with the Japanese than the English are This position and the resources of the country should give Americans a predominant position in the markets of Japan and they will I if they are taken advantage of as they should be In the future the surplus products of this country of all kinds must look to a foreign market and if foreign markets are not found development develop-ment along various lines will be very materially arrested In the past there has been a very strong disposition to treat the foreign market as a thing Unworthy un-worthy of heed the people having become be-come very largely imbued with the idea that the home market was all and everything They rfre beginning to outgrow out-grow that Idea The great manufacturing manufactur-ing nation must cultivate all markets I |