Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1904-09-28
THE EASTERN SITUATION
Oriental Trade Of the u. s. NAV
Be Effected

cTtHcc 10 the Eastern 6ltuatl0f
and the writer points out no,
Japan's victory may effect th
| Oriental trade and policy Of til
| United States:
A company composed OF wealth
Japanese has made arrangements
it is stated, to buy large tracts j
land in British Colum bia. A col
ony Of several thousand Japanes
is to be established, the Der
of which will engage in agricultu
raj pursuits. In Australia Japa
nese settlement would not be per
mitted. The Australian Parlia
ment has enacted legislation whicl
prohibits the immigration of Asi
atics and blacks. Not even Kin,
Edwards Indian subjects are al
lowed to make homes for them
selves in the land of his Australian
subjects. "Australia for the whit,
man" is the theory upon which
Legislation is enacted. Hence th,
anomaly is presented of Britain
allies, t b Japanese, excluded
from territory occupied by Briton''
and in close political relations
with the British crown.
If japanese association should
offer to buy land in the far western
part of the United States anG
establish a colony, what hue and
cry would be raised in this coun'
try! The Pacific Coast State,
would send agents to Washington
and exert every possible influence
political and otherwise-to de.
feat the project. The proposition
to amend slightly the Chinese Elk.
clusion act aroused tremendous OPP
position in the last Congress. So
far as immigration is concerned
our statesmen OF both parties
adhere to the principle that the
United States is a "white mans
country; that there 10 no room
in this part Of the Western Hemis-
phere for the yellow man or the
brown man. Not even the Fill
pino, who is politically Uncle
Sans stepson, can come to the
United States at his pleasure. The
door of hope is closed to him. His
stepfather insists upon keeping
him on the other side of the world
and making him source Of rev.
enue, but not an object of affec-
ton.
1t has been stated OF late that
nowhere in the United States is
the expansion policy in such high
favor as in the Pacific Coast States.
Tie people of that region derive,
they think, substantial benefits
from it. If the Eastern States get
any material benefits from it the
fact has been most adroitly con-
cealed from the people. AS uming
that the Pacific Co ct is realizing
u satisfactory profit from national
expansion, the question arises
whether substantial concessions
must not be mode ultimately to
both Japan and China if there is
to be no interruption of profitable
trade relations. The Philippine
archipelago is Of course, only a
Commercial outpost" II Amer
lean trade in the Orient were con-
fined exclusively to our trade with
the Philippines it would certainly
not be worth the money which
Uncle Sam expended upon the
archipelago. The Philippines,
therefore, are of practical value
only as they promote American
trade with China, Korea anc
Japan.
The triumph of Japan in the
present war with Russia means
the creation of an Asiatic world
power in the Orient. 1t means
the rise from comparative obscur-
ity of nation which has proved
it's ability to cope with the strong.
est military power in Europa
nation which could probably cope
with any other power in Europe
on land, although not the equal of
Great Britain or Germany or
France at sea. The defeat of Rus
STA by JAP an will mean Japanese
in Korea--a supremacy,
indeed, which has already been
asserted by Toxic. 1t will inevi-
tably lead, in the view of thought
full observers, to closer relations
between China and Japan, both
com mercial and political, if not to
IN alliance between them. In
spired by Japan's example, and
under Japan's direction, a new
China will DE evolved-a China
which, with Japan's assistance,
will be able to reconstruct its for
eign policy and to maintain any
policy upon which it may decide
against the world--a China which
will not allow foreign Governments
TO dictate its treaties.
This Is not the "yellow peril"
bogy, but simply the natural evol-
ltion of the most populous nation
IN the world to the plane OF equal.
ty with other nations. When the
present war ends Japan, if victor
GUS, will not meckly tolerate any
sights which European Govern
nents and the United States may
place upon it's subjects. Japan