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Show G1 EORGE W. GUTHRIE, embassador to Japan, who hears Japanese at banquet ban-quet denounce Californians. DBS GRAPE JUICE; RAPS HIF01IS Japanese Speaker at Luncheon to Our New Embassador Is Frank. By International News Service. NEW YOTtTC, May 23. Distinguished Distin-guished American members of tho Jnpancse society swallowed a truculent trucu-lent denunciation of Californians by a Japaneso speaker today and washed it down -with grape juico. Tho occasion -was a luncheon to George W. Guthrie, tho new embassador embassa-dor to .In pan, at tho socioty's rooms. Prof. T. lycnaga of tho University of Chicago was tho surprisingly frank orator. After tho speech-making 'former American Embassador Lloyd C. Gris-coin, Gris-coin, the tonstmaster, called for a toast to President Wilson and tho mikado. Secretary Bryan's favorite beverage was used. Said Prof. Tyonaga: "A local affair of no great importance impor-tance is in great danger of boing raised to tho dignity of a world problem, prob-lem, out of proportion to tho material intorests involvod. "This, if let alone, would bo the logical consequence of tho stop that tho California legislature and its governor gov-ernor havo, in defianoo of tho representations repre-sentations of President Wilson, elected to take. "Tho number of Japanese rcsidonts in California forms 'only 2.32 per cent of tho population of tho Btalo and shows a constant tondoncy to decrease, Tho land owned and lcasod by the Japaneso is but a mustard seed. Tho value of the real proporty owned by tho Japanese amounts to a beggnrly half million dollars or so. "It iB clear that tho 'very gravo problem ' confronting California, referred re-ferred to in Govornor. Jolinson'a reply to Secretary Bryan, is not tho mntc-rinl mntc-rinl interest of tho state menaced by tho presence and activity of tho Japanese. Jap-anese. Tho root of tho California legislation leg-islation is tho raco question. Tho frequent fre-quent rocurrenco of hostility of the same nature is nddod proof. "Tho procedure of California has (Continued on Pago Tlireo.) OIKS GRIPE JUICE; j raps ens; (Continued from Page One.) deeply stirrod the hearts of the Jap-anoso Jap-anoso people. The blow is the more keenly fait becauso it has come from the Americans, npon whose friendship and good will thev havo implicitlv relied. re-lied. "Nor can I consider that tho attitude atti-tude of the federal government and of the American people at large has uu dorgone any change since the alien j land act became a law of California. Tho act is there. The objeetiouablc spirit of the law remains, only the phraseology has boon changed. "J cannot imagine that the federal trovcrnment exerted all its efforts only to modify tho pJiratAiolojry of the act so as to bring it into harmony with tho letters of tho existing treaty. ""What we, ask for is not the sooth-inc sooth-inc words, but tho substance of jus lice. 1 have, therefore, cverv reason to believe President Wilson will not j cease Im labors until an adjustment satisfactory to tho Japanese people is made." |