Attack Johnson's Attitude.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 20, 1913:
Radical Tokio Papers Denounce His Statements to Wilson.
    TOKIO, May 19.— Some of the radical newspapers bitterly denounce Gov. Johnson's reply to President Wilson as illiberal and unjust, asserting that it is strongly anti-Japanese and that Gov. Johnson is seeking to evade his own responsibility under cover of the National law.
    It is pointed out that the Japanese have not acquired land by violence, and it is urged that they are no more objectionable than Europeans who acquire citizenship, amass wealth, and return to their fatherland. Instead of endangering peace and order, they have opened up the resources of California and advanced the prosperity of the State. The inhabitants of the Eastern States, some of the papers contend, should be alive to the injustice of California.
    The Yorodzu considers Gov. Johnson's attitude as an intolerable insult to Japan, which, it says, has always shown good-will, and has voluntarily restricted emigration. The paper expresses the hope that a protest will be lodged against the alien land ownership bill recently signed by the Governor of Arizona.
    The group of business men from various cities of Japan who visited the United States in 1909 and made many friends there are seeking the co-operation of the most influential of these toward a continuance of the friendly relations between the two countries. They held a reunion at Kioto to-day, and decided to communicate with their American friends in an effort to aid in the settlement of the controversy over the alien land legislation.
    The discussion was of a friendly character, but the granting of naturalization and the conclusion of a new treaty were regarded as most desirable.