New-York tribune., 1908-03-29
NJ. TARDIEU'S LETTERS
TALKS WITH PRESIDENT.
Paris Interested in Pacific Coast and
Japanese Question.
JsnsciaI nv French Cable to The Tribune
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rcopvrigh, 1905 by The Tribune Association
Paris, March 2S.-M. Andre Tardleu' VINO
is lecturng at Harvard In conhec'io'i WIN
James Hazen Hydes interuniversity scnene'
is the "Temps's" special writer on oipioiiia'i'
questions and letters which he is no" sehoihs
TO that newspaper from Washington are arous-
ing wide interest He describes with plct-
uresoue and vigorous pen his three F's'9 ~
President Roosevelt. of whom he writes: what
struck me first about the President was MS ai'
of vouthfulness and alert vigor. He is not far
from, dfty but does not look more than forty
He spesks French and excuses himself wrongly
for speaking it badly speak it, he says ike
a Touranian language
.Touranian or not remarks NJ 1aroleu'
''he speaks it with force and color
What seems to have interested the frehch-
man most in President Roosevelt's declarations
was his statement that the chief fallihg VI 'he
United States was that it did not sufnclehtS
appreciate the fact that it had worldWloe H.
terests was involved in all the great lhterha-
tionaI questions and must consequently practise
d worldwide policy
1T was l." said the President, who started
the fleet off Whv did l do that? For two rea-
sons First wanted to make Americans
understand that their navy is grand ana I'M
posing and secondly, l wished to bring nome
the same fact to the other powers Ae aooeu'
In America we say. speak softly ana carry
the big stick That is good method IN oeallhs
with home difficulties and it is also good "heh
our foreign policy is concerned. prevention Is
better than cure.
NJ Tardeu publishes also an lhleleS'
ing interview with Mr.. Metcalf, Secretary OF
the NAVY. which forms corollary 10 President
Roosevelt's references to the fleet Mr.. Metcal
insisted first of ALL that Admiral Evans $
Iir elf
future plans he denied that it was intended 10
divide the fleet into Atlantic and Pacihc SQUAD
rons II was prefera Bile to keep ii concentrated
but later on. when it became more numerous
the creation of two distinct squadrons Wouiu
be considered by the government
N Tardieu explains to his French readers that
the American feet deserves to be looReo On d'
President Roosevelts creation. none OF the sHpS
now in the Pacific being more than ten years
old It is this feet which has MADE sIea'
world power OF the United States
At San Francisco NJ. Tardieu was tod oS
Julius Kahn that the only solution of the Japan
ESQ ouestion was the passing of law FORBID
ding Japanese emigration NO race ha'sN
was involved and there was objection TO tle
presence in the United States OF japanese i"e'
chants or students, but there must De ITO Az
mission of coolies. Western and crleh'al c'N''i
cations would not mix English french' "ei
mans and Americans were of one race japan
ese of another. The Japanese had many soou
qualities but the Americans preferred 10 au-
mire them at distance. and the excursion oi''
was imperative. on the same topic bd'o''
| Takabfra assured Nj. Tardieu that an agree
ment which was being negotiated between
Japan and the United States. and which would
| almost certainly be concluded. might not give
Measure TO certain classes of the japanese on'
would be approved by majority. Ii Wouio
| probably have the effect OF stopping the eh''-
grafton OF coolies atOg" tEcr- Recent events Ha'
| not really changed the cordial feeling OF friend
| ship for the United States which hitherto mao
| existed in Japan, though the violent tone ot a
certain portion OF the American press hao pro-
| duced a painful impression.
| The dIspatch of the feet to the Pacific was
| looked on in Japan simply a naval exercise
and If the feet We're to go 10 Japan 1t would
| be cordially received.
| Here in France I have found public men very
shy, Of discussing the question of japanese emil
| grafton AS explained for the first time In any
| European paper by NJ. Tardieu- Both class and
race rivalries in principle. eliminated from
| Democratic and Socialist theories on the rish'
/ constitution of Republican state. and there Is
| no man of eminence to-day in French politics
| who could express sympathy with Caiitornla
without going back upon the political utterances
of lifetime. Rare prejudice is AT the oo''oi'i VI
| anti -Semitisnl which is bugbear to minis
| terial Republicans. No French minister would
! pubIicly agree with Julius Kahns point oi
| view for fear of being involved in much closer
and deeper issues. But. putting this aside. the
fee1inc in French political circles here is frankly
| svnpa tletic with the United States in the Jap
| anese matter though a public expression o
| this sympathy may not, for reasons Whici
| SOLELY concern French home politics, be thought
! opportune. u l. D.