Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1919 — JAPAN’S PRESS BRANDS WILSON AS ‘HYPOCRITE’ [ARTICLE]

JAPAN’S PRESS BRANDS WILSON AS ‘HYPOCRITE’

Tokio, May 6.—The anti-Ameri-can campaign in the Japanese press continues with renewed force. Up to the present no serious overt acts have been committed against Americans or American property. Evidence exists, however, that the newspaper agitation, which has spread to virtually all the leading journals of the empire, is inciting popular feeling against America and thus paving the way to possible open demonstrations. Representative Japanese deplore the press campaign and have begun to critize the government for its failue to check the literary outbursts, on the ground that they are going to far that they are liable to engender ill-feeling. The Yorodzu Choho says the Americans responsible for attempts at an-ti-Japanese legislation are nothing better than barbarians; that their action are more despicable than those of the Germans, whose barbarities they attacked. “despot,” “transformed kaiser,” “man with the Voice of an angel but with the deeds of the devil,” are some of the epithets aplied by the newspapers to President Wilson.