Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-01

east and Great Britain on the south
and west are hugging the watermelon
between them and looking with male
VIOLENT eyes upon such active inteflop-
ers as the United States, with It's seat
in the Philippines and the German en-
pire with its seizure of ChlneSe potl
from under the very nose of Japan =
the port of Kiao- Chow. In this light
it is not surprising that the emperor
of Germany should swing his hat IN
the air and lead in giving three cheers
for President Roosevelt as / read ne
did a day or two ago.
"At the present time there is osten-
sible peace in the world. The rullnS
powers have Joined hands around Chl-
ma, and, while the band is playing
lively jig. they merrily dance in osten-
tatious friendliness and sing that good
old plantation song, Cave Dat Watah-
Million and all the time each has in
his belt knife which he will drive
into the back of his neighbor at the
first favorable opportunity. And we
are there in the circle, dancing Win
the rest, knife ready, and only await
ing the moment when we Will nave 10
perform the hideous task of inserting
its blade alongside the spinal column
of those whom we ought not to molest,
which brings me down to the real cause
for the bitter feeling in Japan toward
the United States.
THAT feeling is not due to anything
which has happened in the devastated
city of San Francisco.
AT this moment the Japanese and
British are working with frantic haste
to secure trade supremacy in China
before something happens to carve the
watermelon for all time. Japan Is
making all possible use of the similar
ity of language, and is covering the
empire with schools that teach western
methods. Great Britain, controlling
the port of Hongkong, second in COM
mercial Importance only to New York.
is reaching out for trade, for railroad
concessions, for mines, and for early
control of the myriad industries that
must develop in China with the west
ernizing of the country But with all
that Great Britain can do, or
any other power can do, Japan will
lead in the foreign business of China.
while among the white mems nations
the United States, by reason of our
geographical lOCdlioI dilu lIle SOItloi
of the Philippines will be the strong
est competitor. Therefore British di-
plomacy again wins, for have they not
SO fixed things as to be able to play
Japan against the United States?
And now you mark me. If we al
low the present affair, or any other in
the future, to lead US into war with the
Japanese empire, we will for the first
time come to appreciate the hardand
fast alliance existing by treaty be-
tween Japan and Great Britain. trea-
ty the terms of which were not made
public until after the treaty of Ports
mouth had been ratified. We will also
for the first time come to know the rea.
son for the erection in the Straits Set
tiement, by Great Britain, of the most
powerful fortification in the world, and
for the apparently useless and extrav,
agant strengthening of the great Brit
ish works at Vancouver. And when
we wind up the fight We will find that
Great Britain has been dangling the
Philippines before the eyes of Japan
as a bait to entice her into attacking
the United States, and that the Phil
ippines have passed from our hands
to those Of either Japan or Great Brit
ain, or both, and that the control of the
Pacific and all the vast commercial
possibilities thereof have been secured
by Great Britain and her dusky ally"