The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-08-09
A new EMPIRE
ON THE MAIN LAND OF
ASIA.

l
Brace Corea and Manchuria
aod Probably a Part of
| Siberia.
Walter Wellman, wiring to the
Record. Herald, says:
"There is to be japanese en-
pire on the mainland of Asia. 1t
is to embrace Corea and Manchuria
and probably part of Siberia. The
japan of the present is a mere ISL
and kingdom. The Japan of the
future is to rule the littoral of the
Northern Asiatic continent. Reach
ing far into the interior, comprising
vast, fertile and populous provinces,
the new Japan Is to be thrice as
great in population as the Japan of
the present.
'The Sea of Japan is to be the
center, the heart of this new en-.
pire. That sea is to become jap
anese lake. Japan is to dominate
it and all the lands lying about it.
This dominance of the Japanese sea
and Its coast country on all sides
the japanese hold is absolutely es-
sential to their national safety.
The pretention the Japanese put
forth as to the Sea of Japan is not
unlike the Monroe doctrine, which
the United states applies to the
Caribbean Sea. Japan has Mon
roe doctrine of her own. And the
meaning of it is that Japan will
view as an unfriendly act any effort
on the part Of European powers to
establish their sovereignty or to
plant their systems on or near the
shores of Japan.
"The Japanese Monroe doctrine
applies not only to Russia, but to
all European rowers. Inasmuch,
however, as Russia is the only Eu-
ropean power which has established
itself on the coast of the japanese
SEA, 1t is Russia alone whose pos
sessions and known ambitions are
to be narrowed or delimited by the
national aspirations of the victori-
GUS Japanese.
"Thus with one mighty leap, ia
pan springs from a scattered island
kingdom-of the Asiatic shore,
mere ocean principality, half lost in
the maritime fogs, to empireship,
covering islands and huge strip of
the mainland and the sea which
lies between them. From rank as
twelfth or fifteenth among the row-
ers, of the East has japan risen at a
bound to fifth or sixth place, and
with still greater possibilities lying
before her in Chinese political he
gemony and commercial leadership.
"These are the aspirations of the
the Japanese people at this mo-
ment This empire-building ambi-
ton of theirs forms the basis of the
peace terms which they will en-
deavor to impose upon Russia in
the international conferences whose
first SESSIONS are to be held here
next week-a conference toward
which the races of the whole civil
lied world are now directed
'We do not as yet know the de-
tails of the terms OF settlement which
the Japanese envoys are instructed
by their government to present to
the representatives Of the czar, but
in the foregoing statement l have
given the Japanese national aspira-
tion upon which those terms are
based. When the precise Japanese
stipulations become known, as they
may be within a week or fort.
night, it will be found that they
were framed to carry cut the great
plan Of, national enlargement and
safety I have just outlined. The
information upon which this dis.
patch is written comes from high
and unimpeachable sources. from
authority which would create sur
prise were I at liberty to identify
II have the highest authority for
the statements that, it the Russians
find themselves unable to agree to a
treaty which achieves this end,
there will be no peace. The Jap
anese have set the stakes which are
to mark the boundarief of their ma
tional domain or sphere of Influence
in the future. The line as blazs in
the rough is net lard and fast.
Tnere is margiDg left for trading,
for accommodation, for seeming
yielding on essentials, but the
one essential-the safety of the en-
pire-is fixed principle by which
the Japanese government will stand