Salt Lake Telegram | 1913-07-15 | Page 8 | California Alone Unfriendly to Japs

CALIFORNIA ALONE UNFRIENDLY TO JAPS SAN KRANCI8CO, July 15. Dr. Juichi Soyeda, former Japanese vice minister of finance, and his colleague. T. Kamiya, an official of the Tokio chamber of commerce, sailed for Japan today, after a tour of the United States. Dr. Hoyeda, in a statement, said he found the aentiment toward Japanese to he friendly in all parts of the United States with the exception of California. Business men of America, he aavid, were uniformly in favor of niaint:iitpnp the present friendly relations rela-tions between the two nations. The Japanese government will make an effort to obtain for Japaneaa the privilege of becoming American citizens, citi-zens, he said. "The Japanese want citizenship and want to become a constructive, patriotic, upbuilding element of your society,' be explained. "We do not want to intermeddle in democratic questions, such as state rights and federal fed-eral jurisdiction; we only petition and make representations, and it will shortly short-ly come to pasa that there will be no more discrimination against the Japanese Jap-anese people who desire to come here to work and lira." Mr. Kamiva sufftrested that necotia- tions at Washington between the state department and Embassador Cninda have created a very delicate situation. "We do not think war is probable," he said. "If it comes, it comes through the action of the United Stat. The Japanese have never fought and do not hope to fight through imperialistic motives, bat onlv when their national honor is involved. But when it becomes a shame to be a Japanese sre cannot tell what will happen."