The Rov. Kanze Uchimura, who pastor for 47 years, read passages from the first treaty concluded between Japan and the United States shortly after Commodore Perry's arrival here.
'The first article in this treaty,'
id, "declares that 'There shall be perfect, permanent and universal peace, sincere and cordial amity, between the United States and Japan without exception of persons or places.' The American Congress has not hesitated to tear this treaty to pieces, just as it has done to so many others, "We cannot keep silent at this ancture. Tt would bring on us the rightful accusation that we are being bribed by the American mis-jon boards. If we fail to combat this un-Christian trend of the United The Christianity of America was severely censured at the meeting, elderly Japanese panters declaring that "besides the exclusion law being un-Cheistian, insulting and criminatory, the Christianity of America to-day commands no respect, and America is responsible for commercializing the faith preached by Jesus Christ."
One of the speakers, the Rev. Naomi Tamura, waxed both in dignant and belligerent, and, la th course of his speech, declared that the time will yot come when Japan and America will have to fight, the United States "continues to maintain her present attitude towards the coloured races, One hundred years from now," he shouted, "all that territory west of the Rocky Mountains will be Japanese."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.