Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-01
ARE NE D HIVE
VAR WITH JAPAN!
Our Strained Relations With the
Oriental Power Gives Cause
For Concern
TRADE SUPREMACY IN CHINA
England and Japan Looking With Dis
trust and Fear on Any Attempt of
Other Foreign Powers Seeking
Share - Japan Fastening Itself Up
on China.

Share - Japan Fastening itseir Up
on China.
Washington, Nov. Nv. w. Jer-
names special to Minneapolis Jour-
nal: Why have our, relations with
Japan suddenly become SO very deli
cate and why is the situation relative
thereto conceded by the responsible
officers of our government to be grave?
ing across the continent to investigate
the charge that a city which has been
destroyed by an earthquake does not
immediately afford adequate school fa-
cilities for the. japanese children resi-
dent there? 4,
Why have we 1lastened to loan a
revenue cutter to the japanese embas-
sy in order that one of the secretaries
of that embassy may go to Eering sea
to Investigate the charge that unarm-
ed japanese have been shot down by
order Of an official of the United
States government?
4 Why has the official who is alleged
to have gwen the order been hastily
summoned to Washington and put thru
minute cross-examination as to what
he did and why he did it? Why was
he not called Immediately at the time
when the killing occurred?
In short, why is OUR government act
ing as if it realized itself standing on
the brink of an open rupture with
Japan, and doing all it can, in reas-
on to avert it?
Some Blame Presidents Foes.
The answers to these questions are
varied, but the most fnsistent one
comes from the foreign relations COM
mittee of the senate. 1t may be that
This committee is not entirely friendly
to the Roosevelt administration, and
that it's views are colored by the ami
mostly between White House and SEN
ate which has been growing ever since
we have had a president who wears no
collar but his own, but the members
of that committee have some access to
the diplomatic relations of the Unitei
States with the powers of the world,
and, having that access, they have a
certain degree of information denied to
others.
A member OF that committee has
been kind enough to state the Capitol
Hill estimate of the reason for the
sudden access of energy on the part Of
Japan in apparently seeking cause for
quarrel with the United States 1t is
q rather long story, and harks back
to our old friend, John Bull, and that
fast-ripening lemon, the Chinese en-
pire, which every nation of the earth
would SO dearly love to squeeze. But,
, at any rate it is perhaps worth the
telling.
War as Certainty Of Future.
If the senate committee is right, and
half the naval officers you talk with
are right, and some of the travellers re-
turning from the far east are right
then war with Japan lis our certain
heritage and we might do worse than
to go ahead and have it over before
that ambitious and grasping nation has
time to recoup her financial shortage
earned thru the war with Russia. The
senator referred to said:
"The grand prize before the nations
Of the world at the present time Is
China. No one who has not studied the
question can form an adequate idea of
how grand the prize is. Think of the
thousands of men who have made for
tunes out Of the development Of Japan.
and then reflect that Japan Is a baga-
telle compared with China Look at
that empires vast area. See the 400,-
100000 sober docile, intelligent indus
trious, honest, but unwarlike, inhab-
atants. Realize what it will mean when
they have been taught our western
civilization, and will number among
their wants railroads, stock companies,
trusts, whisky, and beer, automobiles,
split Leather shoes, shoddy clothing,
high finance, insurance companies,
Standard Oil Companies, adulterated
foods and all the rest Of our beautiful
necessities. Won't it be of one grand
uninterrupted picnic for those who
know how to give the Chinese all these
things and have the opportunity to do
so? The possibilities are simply be-
yond the widest dreams of the most
avaricious, and the time is fast ap
preaching when the captains of indus
try of the Chinese empire will make
those of the rest of the world look like
small fry in comparison.
Seek to Cut the Melon.
''But you must not run away with
the idea that I am telling you state
secret China and what she is capable
of are things we'll understood in the
foreign office of every government in
Christendom. and there is not one Of
them that has not been, and is not at
this moment, scheming and planning
some way to open the Chinese water
melon. Russia from the north and
France from the. south thought at one
time they had it within their grip,
and you well remember how friendly
they were. But the smartest diplomat
lists in the world are the British. and
they saw to 1t that the Russo French
combination was broken up, as all men
will come to know If the events lead
ing to the war between Russia and
Janan are ever revealed to the world
AT present Japan on the north and