Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-02
THINK JAPAN WAS WISE
London Reviews Approve Her Course
and Praise Roosevelt UnstintedIy

and Praise Roosevelt Unstintedly
BY Associated PresS.
LONDON, Sept. 1.-The result of the
Portsmouth conference is discussed at
great length by the London weekly
publications, the consensus of opinion
being that expressed by the outlook,
which says: "In the matter of indem-
nifty, Japan yielded to inexorable con-
ditions; in the matter of Sakhalin she
allowed herself to be outgeneraled."
At the same time the general opin-
ion is that in yielding half of Sakhalin,
Japan may fairly be credited with ex-
cellent political foresight which will
not be recognized at once by the mass
of japanese.
Like the daily newspapers the re-
views, even those which seldom lose
an opportunity to express anti-Amer-
lean or anti Roosevelt opinions, give
the president unstinted praise for his
share in the negotiations. The Speak
er, an organ of the Liberal party, says
"Those who, like ourselves, always
mistrusted President Rosevelt's policy
and blamed him for certain things,
yield to none in recognizing the great
service he has rendered the world and
the gratitude to which he is entitled.
1t is to his initiative, untiring energy
and refusal to despair of the success
full outcome of the conference that
peace is largely due"
The Outlook says: For this achieve
ment President Roosevelt has received
the gratitude and admiration of the
rulers and people of the world in over
flowing measure. Such praise has never
before been lavished on an American
president. Both for himself and his
country President Roosevelt has won a
position Of unique and commanding au-
thority."
AngIo-Japanese Treaty Emphasized
In connection with a discussion of
the future effect of the peace terms,
which, all the weekly publications
agree, must mean an entire realign-
nent of Europe, the Anglo-JapaneseI
treaty is given considerable space and
is credited with being the preponder-
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ment at Portsmouth. The Outlook
says: 1--WE shall say at once that the
principal factor in securing the utter
ly unexpected result was the renewal
of the Anglo-Japanese agreement"
The Speaker criticises the clause of
the new treaty which binds either coun-
try to help the other in case of at
tack by third, because "for the pres
ent the best guarantee against the ag-
gression of European powers in the far
east is the undisputed predominance Of
Japan and that guarantee is weakened
by an arrangement which puts peace in
the far east at the mercy of quite ir-
relevant quarrels elsewhere"
1--WE are" the paper says, sin close
relations with Europe in general and
in intimate relations with France in
particular To confuse those relations
by a binding promise to make war on
any nation with which this vigorous
and competent people, just launching
its fortunes on a career of generous am
bition, may quarrel seems to us a grave
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Otherwise the reviews, while not in
possession of the full terms of the new
agreement, accept the treaty as out
lined by the Associated Press in its
main particulars, as a wise extension
of the former alliance and as a strong
guarantee of the lasting peace of the
world.
Japan's Future Task
Count Okuma. the leader of the pro-
gressist party in Japan, contributes an
article to the Outlook entitled "Japan's
Task After Peace" in which he OUT
lines the possibilities of the develop
ment of Japan's trade, the retention
Of her capital and the making herself