New-York tribune., 1908-01-27
RIVALRY In PACIFIC.
M. Tnrdieu Not Hopeful Of Lasting
Peace 7cith Japan.

Paris. Jan. 2s-Andre Tardieu, the French writer
international politics. who sailed for America
on Saturday to deliver series OF lectures on
France and Her Alliances at Harvard University
before the groups of the Alliance trancaIse mas
Just published an interesting article in the Fsevue
Ges Deux Mondes' on the present reiauoh oet"een
America and Japan After reviewing occurrences
and diplomatic exchanges. he cohcluoeS tid'
while neither Japan the United states wants
is prepared for war. there is no prospect OF
permanent solution of the immigration question or
of avoiding the constantly growing ciash OF rNal
interests in the Pacific. He says:
The imprcbability of an early is not eauva.
lent TO the certainty OF definite peace None OF
the special points which have been in issue for
than a year has been definitely settled, p Fop
instance regarding the school controversy, the TWO
suits designed TO establish the rights of Japanese
the matter OF Immigration an expedlsnti arIang Ted
by diplomatic artifice, has enabled the oh.so Ts
Interpretation of the Gresham -Kurno treaty re
mains controverted-the Japanese expect more from
These questions permit temporary appeasernent.s. apr % nete
but also brusque awakenlngs, Ano aesione % ~ Everv-
thing indicates that the hostility to yeiiow lapor IN
America has not said its last word few months
ago British America witnessed the same troubles
arising from the same causes day VIII conle tf
two Americas At present japanese immigration to
South Aneriea Is small but rfpeiied rsentea ae the b
and Brazil il will be accepted untll II peCoines ~ ~
two faces clash and will continue 10 clash, and
neither disposed to yield The clash OF ldeas
and Americans to close quarters: Ihe JapaIeise
government in its present condition VIII MAKE
neither q useless dangerous war, put as tIe
JaDanese have changed their industrial me- 50
they NAV also change their political condltloiS'
the popIIlace may time be able TO carry the
day against the counsels of the elder statesmen
When the population of Japan. 1apidiy lhcreas-
ing has filled ND the outlets opened pE the WAITS
with China and Russia may IL not coVet HaWali
Corca? But many years must pass betoIe tnat
time arrives. and these years may not De iost Ior
peaCe II seems now II the dlSputantS Wete
irving in advance to avoid new conflct py 81
rnuItaneousy resolving the questions or 1nhlsrd-
ton and naturaiiza tionbY restraining lne adiis-
sion Of Japanese coolies and comforting ma tufalz
fion on Tapanese subjects who have taken per
admitted that nothing authorizes us to say that
such negotiations officially in progress put even
if thew are and if they resulted in an agreefneii,,
the probIen in its essential elements would sun
srbsfst. Resolved partly in the United states, II
might be raised elsewhere on the American cohti-
nent- g. a..
a lone on the United States and Japan but on all
the powers. France in this affair must Wish ana
does wish pacific solution She is hound TO the
-uited States by ties stronger than treaties Shs
has found in the of the recent Moroccan
crisis that she could count upon the strong afn
active friendship Of Washington She enjoys WIN
Japan old relations which. troubled for moment
during the Nanchurian war. have been aGai9 CON
frmed by the agreement of 1907. 1t is not 1of US
in 2 controversy where ma tuTal forces. IKE race
a nd work are at issue. 70 decide who Is rEnt or
who Is wrong We only wish the ADOPTION OF
regulatory nca sures which by correcting eXagger
ated differences will facilitate reconciliation