The Hawaiian gazette., 1908-05-29
JAPAN WANTS
TO RUN CHINA

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TOXIC, May S.-The stake in the
great game of world politics which
Japan is playing against the powers OF
the Occident is China. The Celestial
Empire is the Oldest, the biggest and
the slowest of the nations, also poten-
tally the richest Its awakening
means that a half billion people will
demand Occidental wares, and the
business of supplying this trade will
make great nations greater and small
nations large. But once before in the
history of the world has anything of
like Importance to commerce taken
place, and that was when Columbus
sailed into the unknown West and
multiplied the world by two.
To dominate this half billion of hui
man beings, to control their affairs and
to act in all things as an intermediary
between them and the Occident is what
Japan aspires to do. If Japan plays
desperate game, it has at least the
justification that the stake is worth
taking chances for. For a variety of
reasons the United States of America
is also in this game. but not contend
ing for the whole stake The Ameri-
can idea is that China shall be opened
to the whole world and free COMPETE
ton permitted to all merchants, no
matter what flag they sail under. The
United States in 1900 obtained the
pledges of the Powers that the terri
tory of China should not be cut up.
The Chinese know that the United
States is the only nation that has not
tried to grab a piece of their territory.
The Chinese also know that every 9TH
er power has attempted to take some
territory and that Japan wants it all.
Is it strange, therefore, that the Chi
nese are saying among themselves that
when the American fleet comes to the
Pacific there need be no further fear of
japanese aggression?
japan, brought to its present state
by the aid and counsel of the Western
Powers, and for long time the pet Of
the nations, has lately fallen under the
of most of them. If this
should grow into impa-
tience, and Impotence into hostility,
the fault will lie only with Japan.
Japanese diplomatists promise to stop
to the United States, but
goes on. Japanese diplo-
matists promise an open door in Man
but the door is closed. Jap
anese diplomatists promise observance
Of trademark rights, but counterfeits
to multiply. In short, jap
a frA1A ttcto - H.
promises which the Japanese people do
not fulfil. 1t is apparent that al
though the japanese nation claims re-
cognttion as a civilized power, apollo
sies must constantly be made for it.
The Japanese idea seems to be that
imitation and industry will win for
them everything that the Occident has.
TheyI copy western processes of manu-
'acture and work hard, but they utter
y fail to grasp the vital fact that west
ern progress has been based on a GER
ain code of morals without which it
would fall to the ground. Thus it is
hat great japanese business firms
must pay cash in advance for goods
while the rest of the world enjoys
credit. Thus it is that the business
nan in the Orient will not risk a cent
IN a contract with a japanese firm.
selves employ Chinese cashiers to
handle their own money.
To justify its claim for extension of
influence in China and on the Asiatic
continent, Japan declares that it has
orospered by its adoption of Occidental
and that it must now be
permitted to carry that civilization to
is kindred peoples of Asia. Grave
1oubt exists in the minds of many of
he closest and fairest observers as to
he sincerity of this Japanese mission
IF philanthropy. They see that Japan
has not given this civilization to its
)wn lower classes except in a limited
legree, and only after tempering it
with Japanese ideals. There is good
'eason to believe that Japan's aim is
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
suggest is to provide first a fund of
say five thousand ($500O dollars. and
hen to enter into correspondence with
Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agri-
culture, who, 1 feel assured, will be
n hearty sympathy with the move
nent, asking him to request each of
he State Farmers Institutes of Ore
;on,. Kansas, Minnesota, Ohio, Massa-
Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, In
Llama and Wisconsin, to select a prac-
ical, successful farmer to make a trip |
o Hawaii for the purpose of inves- |
igating opportunities in agriculture at |
'ur expense. The ten men so selected |
o meet at San Francisco, at a given |
late, leaving for Honolulu by the same |
teamer and to be accompanied by two |
n three representatives of the Agri- |
cultural Department Specialists in |
Horticulture and Agricul- |
ure.
AT least two months should be spent |
n Hawaii by this party of investiga-
ion in order that the opportunities of |
very island and every district may be
oted and studied, the result of the
INVESTIGATIONS to be published in a spe-
ial bulletin by the Agricultural De- 7
artment, which, 1 believe, would glad
' welcome the opportunity of placing
efore the public the conclusions of
UGH representative body of men. We
ave nothing to conceal and every
hing to gain from such publicity.
Our enterprise in arranging for such
trip would attract general attention