The Kemper herald., 1908-04-23
RIVALRY IN PACIFIC.
M. Tardieu Not Hopeful Of Lasting
Peace with Japan.

Peace with Japan.
| Andre Tardieu, the French writer on
i International politics, who will deliver
q series of lectures on France and
Her Alliances at Harvard University
before the groups of the Alliance Fran
caise, has just published an interesting
article in the Revue des Deux Mondes"
on the present relation between Amer
lea and Japan. After reviewing occur
rences and diplomatic exchanges, he
concludes that while neither Japan nor
the United States wants or is prepared
for war, there is no prospect of per-
manent solution of the immigration
question or of avoiding the constantly
growing clash of rival interests In the
Pacific. He says:
The improbability of an early war
Is not equivalent to the certainty OF
definite peace. None of the special
| points which have been in issue for
more than a year has been definitely
settled. For instance, regarding the
school controversy, the two suits de-
signed to establish the rights OF Jap
| ducbc 6uDJtClS nave UCCh opohNsOASN
without decision. In the matter OF
immigration, an expedient, arranged
| by a diplomatic artifice, has enabled
the United States to restrain, not to
exclude immigration. The interpreta-
ton of the Gresham Kurino treaty re-
mains controverted-the Japanese ex-
pect more from 1t than the Call1orn-
Ians are willing to accord.
These questions permit temporary
appeasements, but also brusque awak-
snings And for the latter the future
may furnish many occasions. Every
thing indicates that the hostility TO
yellow labor in America has not said
Its last word A few months ago Brit
ish America witnessed the same
troubles arising from the same causes.
A day will come when the questions
will be general, common, to the two
Americas. At present Japanese imml-
grafton to South America is small, but
repelled at the North, it has ALREADY
begun. In Mexico, Argentina, Chill
and Brazil, it will be accepted until 1t
becomes too strong. In Hawaii. the
Philippines and Alaska the two races
clash, and will continue to clash, and
neither will be disposed to yield. The
clash of ideas and interests may some
day bring the Japanese and Americans
TO close quarters. The Japanese gov
ernment in it's present condition Will
make neither useless nor dangerous
war, but as the Japanese have changed
their industrial life, so they may also
change their political conditions, and
The populace may some time be able
10 carry the day against the counsels
Of the elder statesmen.
When the population of Japan, rap
Idly increasing has filled up the out
lets opened by the wars with China
and Russia may it not covet Hawaii
and the Philippines, as it coveted For
mosa and Corea? But many years
must pass before that time arrives, and
these years may not be lost for peace.
1t seems now as If the disputants were
trying in advance to avoid new con-
1ict by simultaneously resolving the
questions of immigration and natural
zation--by restraining the admission OF
Japanese coolies and comforting natur-
alization on Japanese subjects who
have taken permanent residence in the
United States 1t must be admitted
that nothing authorizes us to say that
such negotiations are officially In pro-
gress but, even if they are, and If they
resulted in an agreement, the problem
In it's essential elements would still
subsist. Resolved partly in the United
States, it might be raised elsewhere on
the American continent.
For the present-no apparent dan
ger; for the future-a possible danger
which will weigh not alone on the
United States and japan but on all
the powers. France in this affair must
wish and does wish pacific solution.
She is bound to the United States by
ties stronger than treaties. She has
found. in the course of the recent Nor
ocean crisis that she could count up
on the strong and active friendship OF
Washington. She enjoys with japan
old relations which troubled for mo-
ment during the Manchurian war, have
been again confirmed by the agreement
of 1907. 1t is not for us in a contro-
yersy where natural forces, like race
and work are at issue, to decide who
Is right or who is wrong We can only
wish the adoption of regulatory meas
ures which by correcting exaggerated
differences will facilitate reconcilia-
ton.