Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1907 — JAPS GIVE US DO NOTICE [ARTICLE]

JAPS GIVE US DO NOTICE

Treaty Obligations Most Be Kept or Commercial Boycott Will Follow. Washington, July 1. Reading between the lines of a statement Issued by the Japanese Chambet of Commerce. assembled at Tokio, directei to President Roosevelt and also to the chambers of commerce in the United States the officials in Washington sef clearly the implied threat of a boycO*. against United States goods enterin 0 Japan. —— The boycott declared by Chinese merchants against United States products two years ago in resentment of the treatment accorded Chinese ol the better class entering the United State in the course of their travels around the world was productive of better conditions, for the administration exerted all of its power to ameliorate the rigors of the exclusion laws, and to facilitate the entry of Chinese merchants and students. Therefore it Is assumed that the Japanese merchants have decided to have recourse to the same method of showing their resentment against the treatment accorded their people In San Francisco. Unlike the Chinese merchants, however, they have first served notice of their Intention flpon the United States commercial interests, so ato afford them an opportunity to avert the boycott by bringing pressure t > bear upon the merchants of the Pacific coast, now supposedly in need of eastern assistance.