Japan Seeking No Trouble.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 24, 1913:
Fomenter of Discord a Foe of Civilization, Says Baptist Secretary.
    DETROIT, May 23.— "The man who, by word or deed, creates bad feeling between the United States and Japan is an enemy of civilization," said James H. Franklin of Boston, foreign secretary of the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, in an address to-day before the Northern Baptist Convention in session here. Discussing a recent tour he made in Japan, he said that "the Japanese people want no trouble with the United States.
    "With all the earnestness which I can command, I say that the Japanese are entitled to the respect and confidence of the world."