The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-07-10

to conform and must eonf form to the in.
 ternatlonal practice of Western na-
 fions The great civilized powers do to demonstrate power and supepiority.
 There must be cause, a grave cause, and one not removable by diplomatic conference. Japan has not only no to entertain the slightest unfriendiy feeIing. Her government knows as we'll as ours knows that the unpleasant incidents reported from San Francisco are of local import only, and that they are quite too trivial to impair friend ship Japan is perfectly well aware of the earnest desire of our government to prevent unfair treatment of Japa- nese residing here, and it gives full ton upon that subject, precisely as we should in contrary case give full faith to representations from Tokio.
 Besides. even if the Tokio govern nlent had made up its mind that some- thing must be done about the attitude of San Francisco hoodlums toward the Japanese there. 1t could not expect to remove the cause of complaint by war. practically all the Japanese out of the country, and none of them wbuld come back for years, if at all It is only by ways of peace that such difficulties can be settled to mutual advantage.
 There are peculiar reasons why war rumors from Tokio talk about a retail iatory boycott of American goods, and the spread of unfriendly feeling to- ward Americans should be received tales may be disregarded altogether. They do not properly reflect Japanese public opinion and they are very far indeed from correctly representing the feeling and attitude of the government pan. :.
 The New York World says,
 With the solemn stiffness character istic of the whole propaganda of Jingo- ism The New York Herald assures It's readers that:
 Prevention is better than cure. ana it is better. likewise more humane. to avert a war by preparing for it than to Invite one and render 1t inevitable by a suicidal policy of unprepare edness; and just as the determination to pro tect American possessions is intelligble,' of the navy is natural" ..t, What is this war that we are to avert by preparing for? A war with Japan? How s,a riGieSlors; fIS,,IS Is there sane man q war? Is there a rational human be- ing in this country who believes that the governing classes in Japan desire war, or that they are not most anxious to prevent it? And even if such a war were threatened. by what possible pro- cess of human imagination could a pa- rada or battleships through the Straits Of Magellan be construed as prepara-
 The situation is conservatively de- scribed by Baron Komura. Japanese Ambassador to Great Britain. in Q state ment cabled to The World from London Sunday: There seems to be an extraordinary number of false impressions with re- gard to the relations Of the two coun- tries. and some of the American news AndQAVnFin a~ fF Rf fkVa agitation that is not Justified. eF Y
 This was bad enough when confined to the newspapers to which Baron Ko- worse when the President of the United States. after denia1s and QuibbiinE, goes out of his way to encourage them Il their reckless agitation and reinferea their senseless clamor.
 We admit that the presence of the battle-shfps in a California harbor will nightly please the anti-Japanese ele. ment. on the Pacific coast. We admit litically. We admit that M may in. fluence the choice of an Administration delegation to the next Republican Ma tional ConventioH. We admit that it will play into the hands of. the sJapaF nese Jingoes and excite Japanese aps prehension, as shown by Viscount Tani,a. reference to San Francisco hooligans" In cable message in today's world. We admit that such nonsense as The Herald Is printing will help to promote Jtngotsm both here end in Japan. We admit too, that the best way to make war possible is to alarm. threaten. ex- cite and bully the other nation. Ws admit that the combined efforts Of tha fools and hot-heads of both countfied might events&liy precipitate hostiIi-
 All this is conceded without arRu- ment. but what interest of statesman ship, of diplomacy. of national securi- ty, of humanity or of patriotism does It serve? The crass stupidity Of tha thing Is almost unthinkabls. .rI,'--t.
 If Elihu Root, Secretary of State. is the great conservative force In the American Government that he is rep resentedy to be, 1t is time he went to Oystr Bay and used his influence to nave this batte-ship order rescinded