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Show JAPS HAVE FAITH III AIIBPEOPLE WAR TALK IS DENOUNCED AS CALCULATED TO EMBARRASS TWO GOVERNMENTS. Japanese Newspaper Loud In Their Praia of President Wilson's Endeavors En-deavors to Preierve the Traditional Tradi-tional Friendship. Toklo. Faith in the American people peo-ple to see that justice la done to the Japanese Is the domlnstlng note in the discussion of the California alien land ownership legislation. War talk la denounced as ridiculous and only calculated to embarrass the two governments which are laboring for a peaceful settlement by diplomacy. diplo-macy. It la conceded, however, that failure on the part of the Americans to respond re-spond to the Japanese appeal for a discontinuance of the alleged discrimination discrim-ination would be liable to lead to some estrangement of the peoples. The Japanese Jap-anese public generally la convinced that the land bill is a racial and not an economic measure, and bence a bloA to national pride, and the people fell (hat the world -must be taught the necessity of equal treatment for the whites and non-whites. Tbe Toklo newspapers are loud In their pralae of President Wilson's teal In his endeavors to preserve the traditional tra-ditional friendship and they recognize the difficulties whlth confront the president of the United states In the confusing conflict between state and federal rights. The Ntchl Is of the opinion that the question as to whether the Washington Washing-ton government can procure for the Japanese equal rights depends upon the strength of Jspanese diplomacy, and urged the government to take a firm attitude. A Joint celebration of the Japaneee and American peace societlei on Sunday Sun-day was attended by 1 000 Japanese. Speeches were made by Count Okuma, former minister of forclsn affairs; Huron Yoshlro Sa'xatanl. mayor of Toklo, and Taiinejlrl. Mlqaol a. who was counselor f the .Ispnne embassy embas-sy st Washington In l-'S All the speakers . ndavored to clarify the situation ai-1 d"!:;id Jingoism. |