Arizona republican., 1905-03-20
The New Japan.

w hen the EnSHShman in the streets learned that the secret committee" Csee Lord Roseberry and Sidney Low
 on the English cabineD had negotiat-
 ed a treaty with Japan which might
 mean war with RussiI- and France he
 hardly knew at first whether to throw
 up his hat or feel nervous. Since then
 Japan has been doing things on sea
 and land. and at present that treaty
 is one of the Balfour governments
 trump cards. "If you set Q value upon
 the Japanese alliance" the English electorate is told. "dont vote those
 parochial liberals into power at the next e,ection!"
 The big men of the liberal party are not telling what they will do with the
 treaty if they win in the election, and the Spectator" commends them for
 their reticence. At the same time
 when it feels sure that they will not abrOgate the treaty. It is thought the negotiating of this Japanese alliance
 was a mistake, and it thinks so still. The treaty. it says. exposed England to the risks Of a land war at a time when her artillery is "so obsolete as harly to be worth dragging into position;" Russia was angered. the danger of the Indian frontier was increased and all without any necessity. But the Japa- nese alliance is an accomplished fact, and England has really no choice now but to see it through. We quote:
  great would be the danger of not malk- ing the Japanese feel that they can negotiate terms of peace on the basis that the alliance will endure. This at first sight may seem as if we favored melting the Japanese to ask exorbitant terms. Nothing is further from our thought The danger is different. It is that the Russians may tempt the Japanese with extraordinarily favora- ble terms, provided that there is a se- cret clause in the agreement under 1 which Japan will be pledged to let the | alliance with Britain drop, The Rus 1 sians. very naturally from their point | of view. would consider that immense concessions to Japan would be amply | compensated for by the knowledge that | they had separated us and Japan"
 England's plain interest under the | actual conditions Is. as the Spectator | sees it, to thwart such cachination | as that by keeping Japan assured and | friendly. After the war Is often. Eng | land may be able to turn the treaty to | good account while managing Rus sias susceptibilities as carefully as the | permit We quote again:
 "The 'open door Is the object which | America has always kept in view, and ] the steady growth of American trade in the Pacific is surely tending to make the maintenance of a free and open China an imperative American inter est. The rise, too. of American naval power will soon render American sym pathy for the policy of the open door more than a matter of words. Again, If the policy we indicate were not giv- en a distinctly ani-Russian complex ion, we do not see why Franco should not view it with benevolence. or some thing more. She wants. not annexa- ton of Chinese territory. but merely an open door Further, she has no wish to show hostility to Japan. and she naturally looks with concern on the rise of German power at the ex- pense of China
 All this leads the Hartford Courent to this second conclusion: These are for Englishmen to con- slider. There are others to which in politics or out. might well be turning their minds pretty For half century Ja- pan has looked upon this country as her benefactor and friend. Japan is now a great power. She has been lighting a great war with what was supposed to be the most formidable power on earth. Apparently she is coming out of it victorious. Is this an opportune time for Americans (native or naturalized) on the Pacific slope to be starting up vituperative sandlots agitation against Japanese aborers who have come to this coun- Try to earn an honest living? Is Ja- pans good will or i'll will a matter of to us?"