Show NEW TREATY OF OF PEACE WITH JAPAN There are some twenty prominent Japanese business men JOen of or the bigger grade in America getting acquainted with our people and giving our people an opportunity op to get better acquainted with them In Seattle the other night they attended a banquet given by mer merchants chants bankers and manufacturers of the northwest and in the course of his address one of the latter said Id the men menat menat menat at table tab had bad made a new treaty of peace between Japan and the United States State And that under the terms oft o othe of the t fl new treaty each had agreed to buy goods good of the other and pay for them That Is a whole lot better than to talk about fighting g Japan It is much better for both countries than for either cither r of them to canvass the chances of war Of course the talk was in a facetious strain and nd yet It went to the cor core cort of things Not long ago some come one In Japan asked a ked Marquis Ito Ita if it there were such sucha a thing as a general Japanese senti sentiment ment In jn favor ot or war against the thc t rl g il Oo I ask aEk the n a non aon on the tho street replied the wise old man And the children on the street when asked sang The Banner It Is a good thing to see the mer mar merchants merchants chants of the two nations at table to together t gether to know that the Interests of ot business are for peace From child childhood childhood hood our people have been taught that commercialism Is a terrible ogre do voted to nothing so much as is the de do destruction of everything desirable In the life fife of or citizens Maybe Ma be commercialism is like a good many other strangers not so bad as it has been reputed We have been t told ld that war Is made by the business e Interests Even If It that were true trim shall not the business In Interests Interests interests have credit for the blessings of peace when they make for peace And It is very certain that the business in interests interests interests of at the two nations give the one strongest assurance against military conflict between the United States and Japan Nothing Is so destructive as war And good rules of business never are served by the destruction of property |