The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-08
THE FAR EAST.
Japan's Policy is to Unite it's Military
 skill with China's Population.

Japan's Policy is to Unite it's Military
 skill with China's Population.
 New York Herald
 The disquieting commercial situation in the far East and the crystallizing national sentiment In Japan to absorb the trade and power of the Asiatic seas were set forth with convincing clear ness in letter signed An English man," published yesterday in the Herald. The writer dealt in no ex- travagances, and the facts paraded seemed to justify his conclusion that the ambition of Japan is a menace not only to the United States and to Great Britain, but to the whole western world.
 The right of every nation to advance its interests and by every honest means to extend its influence is undoubted, but these essays are hedged about by the paramount doctrine of square dealing and fair methods The writer of the letter asserts-and he has behind him battery of facts-that this attempt Of Japan to control Eastern Asia by her own policies is manifestly unfair, be- cause it openly disregards the rights granted by the obligations imposed by treaties still in force
 The obvious theory of Japanese action is the exclusion of all other countries from the zones of commercial endeavor that Japan has been the last to exploit. This finds, moreover, 4ts main support in the moral and financial aid pro- vived by a home government pledged as sacredly as protocols may control to the policy of an "open door" Special transportation rates are, for example. furnished Japanese merchants
 in Manchuria and a free port Is pro- vided in Dalny, while all other com petitors are forced to enter at New Chwang, where protective customs duties are imposed In short, the outer barbarian is harrassed by the inevit- able subtlety and underplay. and the American or British merchant finds himself in the end competing not with an individual, but with a relentless government.
 One paragraph of this letter deals with the extraordinary self-assurance that rules in Japan as the result of her victory over Russia. Japan, he Is told, Is not only seeking the supremacy of the far East, but Is acquiring 1t with astonishing celerity. Her subsidized. home merchant steamers find markets even in the most remote ports her cotton manufactures, mainly
 because of the cruel use of child labor. are rapidly supplanting all the other sources of supply, and important and costly industries created by foreigners are wrecked by the mere official dic- tum that their products are reserved monopolies of the Island Empire
 Instead of fostering the Ideals of civilization and inculcating the lessons that make for peace and amity among the nations the policy of the far East is to preach the decadence of the wes- tern nations and of the white man, to insist that the various States are so big and unwieldly and so unorganized that at the first shock of war they must fall, as Russia appeared to fall, an easy victim to the ever victorious Japan. Hand in hand with this mis- representation goes the effort to unite the undoubted military skill of Japan with the swarming populace of China; to officer the armies of the Middle Kingdom by Japanese. to discipline and
 nfuse 1t with tho Nippon spirit and thus to create force that may in time become a standing threat to the peace and prosperity of the world Tn this aggressiveness of Japan and this re- generation of China turks peril nearly immeasurable.
 Great Britain is to great degree responsible for this mischief by tn, un- wise alliance that complemented the war preparedness of Japan But in a certain s0nse this country, the foster mother of tn Japar. ese. is equally FeSpOHSlDle ANOtH4IlS appeals to such peoples as the indisputable possession of superior force. Had we maintain ed in the far East the squadrons we ought to possess and re-enforced these by the proper docks and repair stations the attitude of Japan over the Cali fornia incidents would have been more reserved. Even now our possessions and our commercial interests in that great region are imperiled b. the failure to maintain in the Pacific the battle ship fleet now mobiltzod in Atlantic waters. Our duty is plain and simple-as all real duties are-and if we are wise the Pacific will he patrolIed by our ships in the interests both of a developing civilization and nf ba paaca of ha world