Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-09-19
Seeking ALLIANCE
With AMERICA
Germany And China Are
Not Indifferent To
Our Aid
wAShlNGTON'S ADVICE MAY
Be FORGOTTEN SOON
Revision of Tariff May Serve Purpose
Of Gaining Friends-Oriental
Situation Holds Center
Of Interest
(Staff Correspondence


practically suing for alliances with
the United States. the advice of Cen
eral Washington to beware of for
leign entanglements seems to be in
danger of being forgotten. Nobody
so well as those who have had to DO
with American foreign relations In
the decade since the Spanish War rec
ognizes the certainty that foreign re-
lations will, In the near future, play
scarcely less prominent part in pub
lie life in this country than domestic
concerns.
This is inevitable because the Unit
ed States has grown SO thoroughly to
dominate the Western hemisphere.
The only nation of the first class
which has foreign doors opening on
both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
cannot hope to escape the RESPONSE
bility of that distinction and that OPP
portunity.
Germany Was First
Germany and China are the two
great countries today rapping at I'm
Gle Sans diplomatic door. Germany
was the first country which seemed
Thoroughly to realize the possibilities
of the new Oriental situation
brought about by the war in Man
Ichuria.
Only yesterday the jingoes and the
sensationalists were assuming that
the next world war would be between
the United States and Germany. The
same people who were making such
predictions three years ago now smile
as they recall their own pessimism
of that period. and admit that there
never was reason for serious differ
ence or conflict between the United
States and Germany.
There is disposition nowadays
among students of International re-
lations to accept frankly that race
differences are more likely to cause
international friction in the future
than anything else. Consequently
the problem of each, which involves
not only tremendous commercial
stake, but also a question of which
race shall dominate, looms larger and
larger in the minds of these philo-
sophie students of world politics.
Avoid a Conflict
The possibility of japanese agrees
sion in the Far East would not be
taken SO seriously but for the Anglo
japanese alliance. In every club and
social gathering where army and ma
Wy officers and diplomats exchange
views there is always inquiry as to
how far Great Britain would go
japanese alliance called for action.
There is an interesting and remark
able volume of testimony to the be-
lief among English people that Brit
ain would find means to avoid con-
flict with any other Caucasian coun-
try as a result of her pact with ia
pan.
Probably no American statesman Is
more intimate with the details of
Oriental policy than William Howard
Taft. Mr.. Tafts view as to the atti-
tude the United States should main.
tain in the East were stated with
great vigor in his Shanghai speech
delivered nearly year ago, when he
told the representatives of the great
business interests of China that the
United States stood and would con.
tinue to stand for territorial integ.
rity of China and the maintenance OF
the open door. Further, he intimated
broadly that the United States would
,, be willing In case of necessity to EN-
ploy whatever means might seem nee
essary to prove its devotion to this
view. The Orient construed this
speech as nothing less than a threat
that the United States would joir
China in war on any Power whose
aggression menaced Chinese autono
my or the open door.
. Will Affect Campaign
! This question of Oriental relations
is expected to have considerable bear
Q ings on developments Of the presen
I Presidential campaign. The Demo
Gratis count on great gains along tn,
: Pacific Coast, especially in California
a by reason of their platform declara
ton for large Navy and agains
Oriental immigration. The Republi
g cans expect to set off against this tn,
: fact that Secretary Taft is one Of thu
!. worlds greatest experts in Orienta
Q affairs. and that in his Shangha
speech he committed himself square
ly to maintain the policy first pro
Q mulgated by John Hay In his note t.
!, tegrity and the open door.
With the assurances that tn,
American tariff schedules are soon t,