The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-04
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THE J4PINESE SCI R ECRoH
 It is difficult to account for the scare over the ambition which is attributed to Japan as consequence of her phenomenal progress since Admiral Perry knocked over her walls of cx- clusion. Every now and then a cold chill runs down the hacks of nervous Americans, who watch the advent of the Japanese into the Philippines, and into Honolulu, with mysterious, ap- prehension They appear to see in the an impending war with this country.
 We cannot welcome too enthusiasti- cally to these shores MT, Henry w. Dennison, an American citizen who is the adviser to the Japanese Foreign of- fice. For thirty eight years he has been employed by the government at Tokio and is believed to be ono of the powers behind the throne. He is on his way to the peace conference at the Hague but stopped off long enough to make this welcome assertion, which there is no reason to question tho sin cerlty or truth of: Japan is not look ing for trouble There is no warlke c,,i~it t,, tl,o ooupfr,, Ca far ac have heard there Is no thought of talk ing the Philippines If some time in the future she should decide that she would like 10 own the Philippines she will not try to take them by force If Japan had any intention of seizing them |, as an American citizen, would, of course, not stay where am. Japan doesn't want war with any country, certainly not with America"
 This has much more convincing tone than the periodical stories one reads in the newspapers, which picture the sons of Nippon secretly drilling apart from the eyes of international attaches and launching a new battle ship every time the clock ticks. for the purpose of swallowing tho Oriental possessions of the United states be- fore breakfast one day and then mak- ing square meal of Russia at night, with the masticatlon of China to scothe the fierce appetite provoked by keen cocktail in the middle of the day. It is not given to any one to clearly see the future of the Philip pines as they relate to the experiment being carried on by this government. Secretary Taft with his big heart and his belief in the asslmilating powers of his country is more or less confident that with time we shall convert the Fllipinos to our way of thinking and acting, but there must be moments when he feels the thought stealing over him that 1t would have been more providentlal had not conditions compelled Dewey to remain in Manila bay, after the destruction of the Span ish navy.
 It is of course characteristic of the Anglo-Saxon race, if we belong to 1t, or if one of its branches may be said to be in control of the destinies of the United States. to hold fast to what once comes into its possession, wheth- CT by conquest or by the accident of circumstances, but this fanciful way of considering great national responsibu- ites is not fixed habit of any mod ern people. Andrew CarnegIe's im- pertinent offer to buy the islands and thus take them off the hands of the government naturally only raised a smile, but it is not inconeeivable that should Japan, at some distant day, when the inability of the American white man to bear the Yellow mans burden may be demonstrated, offer to buy and pay for the islands, what we should sentimentally think we would lose fin national honor by the trans action would in sober moments be re- garded as good horse sense. At any rate this country will not go to war with Japan over the ownership of the Philippines and Japan win not provoke war to get them. ..-