Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-02
Are Gathering Says Sen
stor Perkins, California.
Prospect Of Conflict Between
Americans and japanese.
Notable Speech and Timely
Warning Given.

Washington, Feb. lin an address
delivered tonight before the National
Geographical Society, Senator Perkins
of California dwelt at length upon the
probability of a conflict between the
Americans and the Japanese, two ir-
reconcilablc races" as he pronounced
them. After speaking of the difficulties
overcome in the past dealing with the
Chinese question, he said:
Hawaii has the Japanese on her
hands, as we in California will soon
have, and as this people is more agrees
sive, more tenacious, more cunning and
more determined that the Chinese, it
will never do to permit a long delay
before settling the question once for
ALL For the people of Japan have start
ed out on course of commercial de-
velopment which will soon bring the
United States and Japan so close to-
gether that it will be difficult to settle
the question at all. Japan is still in the
flush of it's great triumph over what
was considered the strongest of Euro
pean powers. 1t successfully inter-
posed barrier to Russian supremacy
to Eastern Asia.
s"The primary ambition of Japan is
the empire in adjacent countries under
it's own sovereignty. This is the true
beginning of real national expansion.
Japan, as the dominant Oriental ma
ton, will naturally form with the 9TH
err Oriental nations an alliance which
will consolidate these nations into eff
fective cooperation.
1.-The science of war supervenes only on
nation has manifested a greater capacity
for perfect unity of purpose than the
Japanese; no nation has manifested a
greater attitude to seize upon and appro-
pirate all that ages have discovered in
the other nations in arts, in science and
| in government.
"In brief, the Japanese race, wherever
distributed, however numerically strong
| in any foreign country, will remain a
| unit in support of aspiration OF the Jap
arese race, and however distant their
residence from the throne of the NIilsado
will still constitute an element of
strength in the unity Of the empire. Nat
| uralization in any country in which they
| might migrate will not eliminate their
| racial instinct.
Conflicts between nations are the re-
suit of antagonisms which lie at the very
foundation of their purpose. their aspira-
tons, their growth and expansion. The
presence of Russia as a prime factor in
the commerce of the Pacific coast was
| demnetral to the aspiration of the Jap
| ancse in the same time. The occupation
Of Manchuria and the fertilization Of
Port Arthur was the immediate excuse
but not the real cause of the war. Tho
real cause of the war was the inherent
antagonist: Of interest and pu.pos.
which could find no other solution than
the arbitramcnt of the sword.
I'VE have acquired territory in the Pa
cific ocean; W" have laid the foundation
of commercial priE?acy on that sea. W..
have position at the very doors OF the
Orient by the possession of the Phillip
pines and base of naval operations in
the middle Of the ocean by the incorpora-
ton of the Sandwich islands. We have.
laid the tCun'iation for commercial SUI
premacy on the Pacific ocean, and with
soma point in the future course of ma
tional destiny the pathway of national
progress on the part of Japan and the
United States will converge to point OF
inevitable conflict.
at is useless to speculate as 10 what
the occasion or excuse for this conflict