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Show 1 JAPANESE ARE ! . I). S. FIENDS tSp I Mission Introduced in Senate ; by Delaware Senator as Ifi I Warm Allies of America. Mi GERMAN PROPAGANDA j Prussians Have Industriously tffl Worked to Bring About Dis- ; trust and Breed Hatred. 1 WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 In pre- ' sentlng Viscount Ishii, special arabas- Wil sador and head of the Japanese mis-sion, mis-sion, to the senate today. Senator . Saulsbury of Delaware, president pro j$j ;, tempore of the senate and acting in Vr; 1 the absence o Vice President Mar- ' j shall, declared the occasion "symbol- ' 17pr pom nleto international fraternity I,' j which common consciousness of tajik ta-jik 'I ternational honor has brought about." Jjfl ft. Referring to German propaganda, llPp Senator Saulsbury said evil attempts N?r had been made to breed distrust and hatred among friends of the United 1 j States. ! "Japan," he continued, "joins our I; great young nation in pledging anew a j continuance of our old friendship j which the trouble-makers of the earth S have tried so hard to interrupt j Prussians Breed Distrust i "We now know how industriously ' I Insidious attempts have been made by S I the Prussian masters of the German l people to bring about distrust and 11 hatred in the world. We know what ' I evil attempts they have made to breed j hatred and distrust of us among our ; friends and wo welcome this oppor-j oppor-j tunity to heartily congratulate our old ' . friends who honor us today that by the capture of Tsing Tau and the German Ger-man Islands in the Pacific Japan has completely removed from the far eastern east-ern world the only threat, as we believe, be-lieve, to peace and prosperity at the only threat to lasting peace in eastern Asia. Germans Have Aroused Real Peril "The yellow peril was made in Germany Ger-many and Shang Tung was Beized; the Slav peril was made In Germany and Serbia was overwhelmed and Russia was invaded; but the thick-witted, smug, solf-centered supermen of Germany Ger-many entering their last attempt at conquest haveroused a real peril a real peril to themselves and 'ne freo nations who believe in international honor in the binding force of treaties and In tho pledged word are grimly though sorrowfully engaged in creating, creat-ing, perfecting and bringing to successful suc-cessful issue an alliance for the benefit bene-fit of all earth's people, which will protect the rights of nations, small and great and enable them to lead their lives in peace and lead trm unafraid." un-afraid." "This alliance threatens only rapacity, rapac-ity, greed, hypocrisy and nationalized brutality. Our alliance is indeed a peril, per-il, but only to the new pirates of the seas, to the assassins of the air, to those who violate international decency decen-cy and fair dealing, who misuse the forces of developed science and distort dis-tort the teachings of philosophy, who would destroy civilization itself in the effort to accomplish world domination." No Color Label "This peril our alliance has created is the peril to the central European powers but bears no color label. It is, and will be in the future, tho common glory of all true men of all free nations na-tions everywhere to have joined in its creation and success. It is an Anglo-French-Slav-Italian-Japanese-American peril to the disdemeanants of the world. "Let us never permit hereafter that evil tongues or wicked propaganda to cause even the simplest minded among our peoplo to forget the ancient friendship of our nations or -eaken the ties of mutual respect and regard in which we hold each other." Viscount Addresses Senate Viscount Ishii addressed the senate as follows: "No words at my command can give adequate expression to tho profound appreciation I liive of this honor you confer upon us. Wo know full well the exalted dignity and the proud traditions tra-ditions of this illustrious branch of the 1 great legislature of the United States and in tho name of my country, my mission "and myself I thank you most sincerely. To accept your courteous invitation and to occupy even tho smallest fraction of the time allowed for the momentous deliberations of this- august body is a great responsibilitya responsi-bilitya responsibility I do not underestimate, un-derestimate, but from which I may not shrinlc. People Appreciate U. S. Action "I shall "not, however, abuse this r.nro nriviloff hv ntfomntlni! to ad dress at length, in a language of which, I have but little command, trained leaders of thought and masters mas-ters of argument and oratory. But I grasp this occasion to say to you that the whole peoplo of Japan heartily welcome and profoundly appreciate the entrance of this mighty nation of yours into the struggle against the insane despoller of our civilization. Wo all know that you did not undertake this solemn task on the impuse of tho moment; but that you threw your mighty weight Into the struggle only after exercising a most admirable patience pa-tience with a firm determination that this world shall bo made free from the threat of aggression from that black shadow of a military despotism wielded by a nation taught with the mother's milk that human right must yield to" brutal mighL To us the fact that you aro now on the side of the allies In this titanic struggle constitutes consti-tutes already a great moral victory for our common cause, which wo believe be-lieve to bo the cause of right and justice, jus-tice, for the strong as for tho weak, for the great as for the small. "Wo of Japan believe we understand under-stand something of the American ideal of life and we pay our most profound respects to it. Jefferson your great democratic president conceived the Ideal of an American commonwealth, to be not a rulo imposed on the peo ple by force of arms, but as a free ex pression of the individual sentiments of that people. Jefferson saw Americans, Ameri-cans, not as a set of people huddled together under tho muzzles of machino guns but he saw them as a myriad of independent and free men, as individuals individ-uals only relying on a combined military mili-tary force for protection against aggression ag-gression from abroad or treachery from within. He saw a community of people guided by a community of good thought and pure patriotism, UBing their own special talents in their own special way under their own sacred roof-trees. Not a machine made nation na-tion but a living, growing organism, animated by one passion the passion of liberty. ( Continued on Pago 4 ) oo JfMiffi ( Coutlnued from Page 3 ) Japanese Ideal of National Life. "I assure you gentlemen that the Japanese Ideal of national llfo is In its final analysis, not so very far romoved from yours. We conceive of our nation na-tion as a vast family, held togothor, not by the arbitrary forco of armed men, but by the force of a natural development. de-velopment. We shall call the common force that animates us a passion of loyalty to our emperor and to our homes, as wo shall call that of Americans Amer-icans a passion for liberty and of loyalty loy-alty to tholr flag. "Blind loyalty without national consciousness con-sciousness of tho responsibility of self 13 but another name for slavery, while a right of liberty, Ill-conceived, ignoring ignor-ing the mutual human affection and re-Bpect re-Bpect for tho rights of every man which form the essence of true loyalty, loyal-ty, must be tantamount to anarchy. Theao two passions passion of loyalty loyal-ty and passion for liberty are they not really ono? Is not the same control con-trol working In both cases- the in-tenso in-tenso desire to be true to our Innermost Inner-most selves and to tho highest and best that has beon revealed to us? You must bo free to be Americans and wo must be freo to bo Japanese. But our common enemy 13 not content with this freedom for the nation or for the individual, he must force all the world to be German too. You had hoped against hope that this was not so, but that noble hope fled and your admirable admir-able patienco was exhausted. You did not then hesitate to face the issue and the foe as you are now facing It with that great American spirit which has 1 loved and still loves liberty, whloh, loves the right more than peace and honor more than llfo. Treaty Not "Scrap of Paper." "We of Japan look up anus against Germany because a solemn treaty was not to us ' scrap of paper. We did not enter Into thlB war because we had any selfish interest to promote or any lll-concolved ambition to gratify. We aro in the war, Insist on being in It, and we shall stay In It because, earnestly, as a nation and aB Individuals, Individ-uals, we believe In the righteousness of the cause for which we stand; because be-cause we believe that only by a com-plote com-plote victory for that cause can there be made a righteous, honorable and permanont peace, so that this world may be made safe for all men who live In It and so that all nations may work out their destinies untrammelled by fear. Japanese Assurrances. "Mr. President and gentlemen: Whatever tho critic half-informed, or the hired slanderer may say against j us, in forming your Judgment of Ja-I Ja-I pan, wo ask you only to use those splendid abilities that guide this great nation. The criminal plotter takes advantage ad-vantage of the fact that at this timo of world's crisis, many things must of necessity remain untold and unrecorded unrecord-ed in the newspapers, but we are satisfied sat-isfied that we are doing our best. In this tremendous work as we move together, to-gether, shoulder to shoulder to a certain cer-tain victory, America and Japan must have many things in which the one can help the other. We have much in common and much to do in concert. That is the reason l have been sent, and that is the i-eason you have received re-ceived me here today. "I have an earnest and abiding faith that this association of ours this proving of oursolves in the highest, most sacred and most trying of human activities the armed vindication of right and justice must bring us to a still closer concord and a deeper confidence con-fidence one In the other, sealing for all time bonds of cordial friendship between our two nations. Again 1 think you." |