Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-22
PREPAREDNESS IS
THING NEEOFUL
IMPRESS CHINA WITH POWER,
HULL ADVISES
Nation Not Ready to Protect Citizens.
Better Quit Paclflc-Falth In
Japan - CrltieIses
RockhIII
BY Associated Praaa.

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-Chairman
Hull of the military affairs committee.
in presenting the army appropriation
bill to the house today, urged the neces-
sity Of complete preparedness as to our
army and navy in case of trouble in the
orient.
He declared that any nation not pre-
pared to protect its citizens in China
might as well haul down it's flag and
quit the Pacific.
Incidentally Mr.. Hull pronounced
Minister Rockhill at Peking guilty of
indtscretion in indicating to Chinese
officials that the United States intended
returning the 920,O00,0O0 Boxer indem-
nifty paid. Statements Of this kind, he
said, will be taken by the Chinese as
an indication that the United States
was afraid rather than liberal.
Mr.. Hull secuted the idea that japan
was interested in stirring up trouble
In China to injure the United States.
Japan's interests in China, he said
were Identical with those of the United
States and preservation of peace there
was the only manner in which they
could be maintained.
Criticises Rockhll
Mr.. Hull made an interesting di-
gression to the situation in China to
emphasize his position that the fighting
army of the government-the army and
navy-should be kept in efficient condi-
tion to meet all emergencies. He hoped
no trouble would come, but there exist
today conditions in the orient that make
1t necessary for us to preserve our
.,srl,
to the extent of being ready to fight for
them.
In this connection Mr.. Hull read Il
newspaper dispatch from Peking which
had been sent from the orient and
which he Vouched for as "entirely ac-
curate." which gave an account of an
interview between Minister Rockhill
and Nu Tung. president of the Wal
Wup. Mr.. Hill said that according to-
this dispatch Mr.. Rockhill reminded the
Chinese officials that the United States
intended to return the 1000, 900, its
part of the Boxer indemnity. Mr.. Hull
characterized these utterances on the
part of Mr.. Rockhill as "injudicious."
Chinese Mistake Kindness
81 do not belive that the represent
atve of this government had n proper
conception of the character of the
Chinese people, continued Mr.. Hull
when he offered them a bribe of G20,-
100000 sterling, or whatever the United
States share of the Chinese indemnity
may have been, to be good.
"They are people that in my judg-
ment would take any such offer as that
as an indication of our being rather
more afraid Of them than otherwise.
And it seems to me that a man
occupying his position should have let
whatever information was necessary
come from the government of the
United States and not given it to the
newspapers"
Mr. Hull said he had been informed
extensively of the Chinese situation.
Japan Not UnfriendIy
He read a lengthy letter whose
authorship he declined to divulge,
which rebutted the idea that Japan was
causing trouble in China. Mr.. Hull in
dorsed this view and also the PROPOSE
tion in the letter that the Boxer in
demnity ought rather to be used to
build battleships for the United States
than be returned to China.
Mr. Hull pointed out that it was de-
Cidedly to the interest of Japan to pre-
serve order in China, in order to re-
tain her own markets in that country.
China, he said, was passing through a
lrdnSllOIl from ancient TO nlOQern CIVIL
ization, land while that is going on
every government that has business re-
lations with her must be ready to pro-
tect themselves or else pull down their
flag, leave the Pacific ocean and de-
stroy their trade"
Touching on the subject of disarma-
ment. Mr.. Hull remarked that the time
ought to come when the lion and the
lamb would lie down together, but it
would NOT come in his dav