The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-06-11
THE JAPANESE PROBLEM.
Is 1t Better to Bite OFF More than Can
Be Comfortably Chewed?


Billings, Mont, June 3, 1905.
To the Editor:
Western democracy believes that its
form of radical political philosophy
has entered the household of the ad-
ministration and made a convert of
the Chief Executive.
Evidence is Forthcoming that the
man in the White House feels the need
of continental support. If he gives
the people what they are demanding in
the shape of the raw material of pros
perity at cost they may rally to his
banner when he unfurlS 1t with the
strange device of coercion applied to
Japan for the sake of keeping that
embodiment of the yellow peril from
having a Monroe doctrine for Asia.
Colonial expansion has bumped up
against something hard in the Orient
The blithe and buoyant iconoclasts
who could see how the ancient and
honorable policy of attending strictly
to our business in the New World
could be abrogated without harm, now
see their finish
Japan may consent to a new Picking
conference. It's cumbrous method of
floating the caved-in agreement for
Chinese territorial integrity will be an
effort to, save the pieces. Diplomacy
with stick in it did not restore the
province of Manchuria to China. Rus.
STA has been ouSted to make room for
the Introductory sovereignty of Japan.
Korea Is SuZerain to the winner. This
is against the law and commandments,
but the fact is that an artificial ar
rangement cannot do away with the
natural law that to the victor belong
the spoils. The Japanese have found
the actual resistance to the threatened
national asphyxiation easier than they
had reason to expect. The race Will
! be correspondingly willing to enter the
lists with the next champion of west
ern world power. Which one of the
western world powers would be willing
single handedl to tackle Japan?
The truth seems to be that the ma
ton which fights best governs best.
Japan is we'll able to go up and pos
sess the Asiatic continent.
This kind of an ambition inspired
the Monroe doctrine of the New
World The wild goose chase after
sovereignty and dominion in the far
Pacific did not try the spirits. Hos
tilty to the yellow race is cropping out
in the western part of the United
States: in the Hawaiian Islands, and
in the Amercanized spots of the Phil
ippines. 1t will not be impossible t.
find a casus belli in case Japan should
cast sleeps eyes toward our Oriental
possessions. Killing the yellow belly
to make way for the white mans
brand of liberty does not recommend
itself to the heather conscience. Nc
KinIey INTERVIEWED in Scuba to secure
order and stability. incidentally il
was known that the cords were to be
heightened and the stakes strength
ened for the Monroe doctrine. In the
hour of triumph opposition was con
temptuously brushed aside.
Japanese congestion must be re-
lieved by expansion Manchuria is
worth as much to it's new COnquerOrs
as the Louisiana Purchase was to the
United States at the beginning of the
last century.
Consciousness of surplus power in
vites to it's exercise. To prevent the
rapid recurrence of the danger which
inspired Japan to take an unfair ad-
vantage of Russia at the outbreak of
hostilities will cause the same strenu-
Gus effort to thwart the designs of the
nations in exploiting the subject races
i'm the Orient. The tenure Ot the oc
cupancy of North America in the Phil
ippines is limited. occupy till l
come" is the sentiment unconfcssed
by japanese diplomacy, but known to
exist on both sides of the earth.
Somebody may put something in the
machinery of arbitration which will
disconcert the best laid plans of diplo-
mats. Bowen scored in the Venezuela
deal against John Hay; i'm the intricate
and dangerous situation in the far
East the same accidental might be
struck with malice aforethought. 1t is
better not to bite off more than can be
comfortably chewed.
JAMES e. FREE.
p S.-Does war promote race sui
eide?