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Show S. P. LAWMAKER SLUES NIPPON MAT! Representative Kahn Discusses Japanese Question Freely and Frankly in House U. S. MAY BE FORCED TO FIGHT. HE ASSERTS Demagogues of x Flowery Kingdom King-dom t0 Be t0 Blame If Peace !s Broken WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Discussing the Japanese question freely and fnnkly In a carefully prepared address ad-dress delivered today in the house, Representative Kahn, of California, chairman of the militarv committee. declared that America hoped always j to avoid war. and ih.it if "the states-1 men, the publicists and the politicians, the agitators and the demagogues of Japan." reai'y wanted war with tho Uhlted Stktes they would be the oms. to bring it on and not the Americana Ameri-cana . ! Mi. Kahn said he knew that he voiced the "earnest hope and the wish of every patriotic American ln;it peace between the two countries i-iayj continue perpetually " "Uut the world," he said, '.'hoa only! recently learned that v.v aro not too' proud lo fight, nor ;ie we afraid to' fight when v. e a 1 1 .. d Jnto w-ai"; ms t vivicits iL m 1MM. The military committee ciiairman j took occasion to reaffirm his belief that a universal military training pol- I ley would best safeguard the country. I and ad tie..; I have no fear that there will pel wai between Japan and the United Stated In my lifetime, nor even the: I lifetime of my sons. And I .1111 thor-1 , oughly satisfied lhat If my country remains re-mains mi osu 1 11 bly prepared there will I be no difficulty between the two na-. na-. ttons at any timo." Mr. Kahn briefly reviewed the hfa-! hfa-! tory of the relations between the I'nii-ed I'nii-ed stoics and Japan and with regard to the Japanese immigration proh-' proh-' lem In California, now the subject of j treaty negotiations between the two ! governments, said students of International Inter-national law everywhere hud rocog-j rocog-j nlzcd the "absolute right" of any na-j na-j Hon to regulate immigration as it . deemed best. Even Japanese students I were familiar with universally gecept-I gecept-I ed decisions on this point, he said, and added: Constats i vgii m ion j "It i. therefore, most unfortunate I that a constant agitation regarding u.ojo mailers is miilntairied ny our neighbors across the Pacific because the final effect of such propaganda and agitation undoubtedly Is to instill in-still a pronounced hatred of America and Americans among the masses in Japan. "This is a decidedly unfortunate Condition' a condition thut tnuy result unfortunately, in grave difficulties between be-tween two hi retofore friendly nations." The speaker said "many public officials of-ficials in Japan" aa well as political agitato rg had -irled to make the world believe" chut oppoaltloa 10 Immigration of Japanese laborers into the I'nited States was "baaed upon racial prejudice." pre-judice." . NV R id l. IHKJi Hit I "Vr of the Pacific coast deny that this Is the case.' he declared. "No objection has ever been made to the admission into this country of Japan-I Japan-I ere professional men, of Japanese financiers fi-nanciers or Japanese, religious teach -I ers or leaders or bona fide Japam 1 merchants or Japanese students or Japanese travelera. The sole objection is to the laboring class. "Whether the undesirables be farm-1 farm-1 or lal.orors skilled mechanics or un-I un-I skil p coolies, 1 contend that tho objection ob-jection Is purely an economic one . . 1 Japan herself is doing to the lahprera I of China and Korea what she . !ms ! Is racial hale or prejudice when done by us to Japanese laborers " COUNT OKI l QQCOTEOD. Represenlatlvo Kahfl called atten- 1 tlon to newsn:mer minllna Count Oku ma, head of the Japanese Peace soclet as having said thai If the United States restricted Japanese Ininiigratlon 1 statute instead of vol-! untary action of Japan, tho latter rather ra-ther than suffer euch prejudice toj her prestige must resort to force "Surely," Mr Kahn $ald. 'the hendi of the Peace society of Japan doeh not advocate the taking up Of .urns against the United States as Indicated! in the newspaper articles." PLENTY OF AGITATORS, From his reading of Japanese s- tory, Representative Kahn said be I was sometimes inclined i" believe that "there are many more political agitators agi-tators and demagogue. un the other side of the Pacific than we can possibly possi-bly find in our own country." . "Happily." ho continued, "wo in America are not worked Into frenay of exfeitoment by purely political hap penlnga," .Mr. Kahn recalled Hie recent incident inci-dent at Tien Tain where American soldier-, had been found In the Japanese police stallon by the American consul-general, consul-general, wounded and beaten, when "the Japanese officers denied any knowledge of (heir whereabouts." 1 h ' Incident, he declared, was In u fair (Continued on Page Two.) oo j S. F. Lawmaker Blames 1 1 Nippon for Situation II t iontlnued From Pago way of amicable adjustment betwei n I I tho governments, adding: NO 1 HREAT OF W U. "The Amerii an pi opie have nevei 1 become excited over the affair. Sou j j hear no threat of war on the part of the American statesmen, politicians, eleven el-even demagogue Publlcists and authors reported, the California representative said, that J Japan was "making: every effort to 1 unite the yellow races: that Japan I under such a program hopes unci ex-I ex-I poets to be the leader of such a raw amalgamation, thai she la striving in every way to aCQUire and maintain the hegemony of the yellow n "Are the Japanese.- trying to bring about the world-old conflict between "the white races and the yellow ana ' the brown races'.'" asked Mr. Kahn, 1 I sincerely hope not. Bui It la a Qui -tion which the statesmen of all llb-etty-lovlng. democratic nations and peoples will do well to study and I. ear constantly in mind." I ; oo |