The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-10-31
BY w. w. Jermane. Colorado Building
Washington, p. c..

BY w. w. Jermane. Colorado Building,
Washington, q. c.
Washington, Oct, 31.-Why have our
relations with Japan suddenly become
SO very delicate, and why is the situa-
ton relative thereto conceded by the
responsible officers Of our government
to be gravel
Why is cabinet offcerysent scurry-
ing across the continent to investigate
the charge that a city which has been
! destroye by ar, earth quake does not,
Immediately afford adequate school IA
cilities for the Japanese children resi-
dent there9-
I Why; have we hastened to loan a
revenue cutter to the Japanese embassy
in order that one Of the secretaries Of
that embassy may go to Bering sea to
| investigate the. charge that unarmed
Japanese have been shot down by order
of an official Of the United States
government So.
Why has the official who is alleged
to have given the order been hastily
summoned to Washington and put. thru
minute cross-examination as to what
he did and. why hessdid it, Why was
he not called immed iately at the time
1 when tie Killing occurredf
In short, why is our government act
ing as If 1T realized itself standing on
1 the brink Of an open rupture with
Japan, and doing all it can, in reason,
to avert 1T
Some Blame Presidents Foes.
The, answers TO these questions are
varied, but the most insistent one comes
from the. foreign relations committee
Of the senate. It may be that this
committee is not entirely friendly to
the Roosevelt administration, and that
it's views are colored by that animos
i ity between White House and senate
which has been growing ever since vi
have had q president who wears n.
collar but his own, but the members Of
that committee have 5some access to thu
diplomatic relations of the United
Estates with the powers Of the world
and, having that access, they have .
certain degree Of Information denied *
Others. {.
A member Of that committee ha
been kind enough to state the Capito
Hill estimate Of the reason for tn
sudden access Of energy on the part o
Japan in apparently seeking cause 70
a quarrel with the United States. It /
a rather long story, and harks bacl
to our old friend, John Bull, and tina
fast-ripening lemon, the Chinese EN-
pire, which every nation Of the cart
I would 80 dearly love to squeeze. But
at any rate, it is perhaps worth tn
! telling.
War as Certainty Of Future.
) II the senate committee Is right, an
J half the naval officers you talk wit
q are right, and some OF the travellers II
. turing from the far east are right, the
. war with Japan IL our certain heritag
and we might do worse than to g
! ahead and have i over with before tha
8 ambitious and grasping nation has tim
3 to recoup her financial shortage earne
8 thru the war with Russia. The senate
s referred to said,
8 The grand prize before the nation
y Of the world at thessspresent time
8 China. No ope who has not studied th
s question can form an adequate idea q
8 how grand the prize Is. Think Of th
s thousands Of men who have made TO
4 tunes out Of the development Of Japa1
: and then reflect that Japan is bag,
8 te1le compared with China. Look {
s that empire 3 vast area. See the 400
|. OOO, 900 sober, docile, intelligent, indu
z trious, honest, but unwarlike, inhal
& litants. Realize what it; will mean whe
= they have been taught our westel
e civilization, and will number anon
Il their wants railroads, stock cpmpapie