Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-18

this question there are many conditions
and circumstances which tend to point
to one conclusion. To begin with, IT
is a fact known OF all men who reao
current history to good purpose tnat
Japan has lost ground in the Enghsn
heart. England realizes that IL she Is
TO keep her place as the mistress or
the seas and her primacy in the COM
mercial world she must hold on TO
every bit of international trade she
now has and lose none of the oppor-
tunities that the future has in store
for her.
But japan, sworn ally that she Is, Is
just now waglng commerciai war
against British interests that is pro-
voking many an cutlery from BRUSH
traders. She is going into India, into
China. into Korea-everywhere that
British trade opportunities are to be
found, and is there converting war
allies into commercial enemies. That
the result is a diminution OF England
respect for her side partner in the
east is as plain as day. Already the
mutterings of discomfort are heard and
evidences are multiplying that Japan
unfair commercial politices are begin
ming to react against her. prominent
British author states that English pub
lie opinion Is fast turning against the
Japanese. He says:
ENGLAND and Japan are in alliance.
But it would be foolish to ignore the
fact that the imperial and CONNER
ciai policy of Japan must inevitably,
IL maintained. strain this alliance to
the breaking point within single gen.
Grafton. The wholesale emigration OF
Japanese coolies will inevitably create
problems involving a choice for Eng
land between a cordial friendship with
our colonies and a partnership with
japan; we will have to decide in China
between offending our ally and MAIN
tanning our treaty rights and CONNER"
cial opportunities unimpaired; and IN
Korea we are already facing the alter
native of protest or the limitation OF a
great future market.
"For years England and America
were obsessed by the vision of a
great Russia, all powerful and all
knowing, moving forward into the faI
east almost with the resistlessness OF
fate. Men marked what was thought
to be her campaign of silent, exclusive
and apparently unceasing. self aggran-
dizement, and the growth of Russia
was witnessed with dread, for 1t was
the belief that where Russian power
spread the prestige and commerce OF
other nations declined. Today the
shadow of the Russian Colossus be-
striding the world from the German
ocean to the gates of India, overload OF
Persia, supreme in the councils of
Pekin, master of Korea, owner of Man
churia, has passed.
"Now we know the weakness of the
Russian giant. But that which mer
yesterday believed Russia to be japan
! now is. Proclaiming with all possible
publicity her adherence to the doctrine
of the open door, she has adopted a
policy of national preference and ex-
elusive privilege; nominally standing
for the integrity OF China, she Is ma
turing plans that can have no purpose
| If they do not involve the passing OF
| large parts of Chinese territory into
! Japanese hands; Korea she has already
| occupied as her own particular terri
tory. She does not threaten India
from the north by the advance of ar
mics, but her teachers are stirring UT
unrest among the people of India and
| holding up visions of a united east
And her official agents have for two
years been at work on great trade
campaign there aimed directly at Ian
cashire's most profitable market"
These considerations in them
| selves are pretty strong arguments
why Great Britain would not take the
| side of Japan in an American Japanese
as the fact that the only thing which
| could bring about a war between the
| United States and Japan is the very
| a greater interest than America. Wher-
| Japan longing to send some of her