The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-06-21
China'S Only Hope Is
Alliance With Japan

Special to The Globe.
TOXIC, June 20.-Not the least in
terestfng, problem of the day is that
involving the future of the Japanese
nation.
Those who pretend to seeein Russia
Notwithstanding mammoth claim
that Japan will eventually be swal-
lowed up by the Muscovite octupus.
One may pertinently ask, however
why Russia did not gobbIe up Sweden
years ago or why she has not done
other things which it is alleged that
she has scheduled. In the circle Of
westward borne cultivation which
reaches from Orient to Occident there
Is graduated chain Of development
which demands more attention than
does the question of national boun-
darieS.
Fortunately, although a part of this
chain from a point of civilization
North America is not likely to be af-
fected by its retrogressive .,possibili-
ties. ~as3 Pts
Russia has recently alleged that her
fear of the yellow peFiP'o lies at the
bottom of the steps she is taking in.
Manchuria. The statement may con-
tain some foundation of truth. There
are large number of Chinese already
in Siberia.
At the present moment there is,
striving to attain ascendancy in Japan
a feeling which is only, the recrudes-
cence Of the old fatalistic idea of ia
pans mission in Climatic Japan
ming, so to speak, of Manchu and Mon
gol, with the new ideas which have
made the Japanese a modern power
The one thing next to fearing the
enfranchiSemento of her own masses on
the part of China is the dread of the
Chinese ever being brought into line
with the foremost nations of the earth,
which might happen if the Chinese
themselves were willing to accept
Japan as a tutor.
Japan's One Hope.
The hope Of Japan now, is that she
may be able to so outwit Russia at the
Pekin court that an offensive and de-
fensive alliance between her old foe
and herself shall be declared.
To consummate this the present en-
press must be removed, for her SYM
pathles are all with Russia.
But such things as q genuine Jap
se-Chinese entente are on the cards
and the empress death would hasten it.
The awakening of China under. Jap
anese influence would either change
the balance of power in the world or
seriously upset the present equilibrium.
To a student of chronological conid-
tons the feverish haste of Russia to
obtain predominance on the Pacific is
one of the most natural and necessary
things for her to do.
The ascendency of China in the ORR.
ent would cripple all those dreams of
empire in which the Romanoffs have
INDUCED. Thibet and the Tartar prov
inces, which Russia has swallowed up
in Central Asia. would revert to China,
as did Alsace-Lorraine to Germany
Russia would be Slav all through and
nothing but Slav
The present dread of extinguish-
ment which the German feels would be
dissipated. A Russia toe whose ex-
pansion limits had been set in Asia,
and with an Asiatic frontier to defend,
with hordes of Mongols constantly
pressing westward, would have little
time to harass either German or Aus
tria. Her millions like a chained
Samson, Infatuated by the failure of
their war lords to obtain dominion of
the world, might even tear down the
pillars of the empire-but that would
make the Slav no less a creature to
himself and<a Russian republic would
practically mean another name for the
same nation, with the ascendency of
liberal ideas of internal administra-
ton in place of autocracy.
Apprehension Either Way.
Whichever way the matter is re-
viewed there is room for apprehension,
but a Russianized China is impernis-
sible. 1t would be the deluge-to civil
ization, as it is generally accepted
But the Japs destiny becomes more
evident in view OF a careful considera-
ton of these facts. He may have
stumbled across what is actually shis
mission" accidentally. If ever this oc-
ours it will be Europe and America
that must build walls around them to
keep out Japanese and Chinese manu-
features.
This is what one of the most observant
writers on the Japanese has published
concerning them:
Japan is not being Westernized, but is
merely picking out brains. The making
of matches and the underselling in all our
common printed cotton and wooden Mar
chester goods have not spoilt tho faculty
for executing that exquisite Eugene dying
for which the Japanese are famous tho
world over The making of bolts and
bars and battleships has not prevented
the metal workers frem producing cxquis-