Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1908-11-11
BEWARE OF
The JAPANESE
PRESIDENT OF UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA DELIVERS AD-
DRESS AT ANN ARBOR ON SIG
NIFICANCE OF PACIFIC OCEAN.

der the auspices OF the Students
Lecture association of the UNIVERSE
t. of Michigan, President Benjamin
Ide Wheeler Of the University of
California delivered an address
Monday night in University hall on
be half of the Pacific ocean and it's
international significance. M.
Wheeler spoke in part as follows:
THE year 1898 is likely to be
date which future history will con-
jure with. /; was the year in which
Russia acquired from China her
right to occupy Port Arthur and in
which the United States annexed
the Hawaiian islands and took pos
st sson of Guam and the Philippines.
The unfolding of the significance of
/ S9S attaches Itself to the main
events of the decade: The Boer war,
the agreement of the powers to the
open door policy in China, tn Box
al uprising and the Russo-apanese
war
English Influence Weakened.
Il heard John hay say in 1902
that no one who had not been init
malely connected with diplomatic
affairs could appreciate how pro-
II undly English influence in the ORR
ent has been weakened. 1t was be-
cause We were in the Philippines,
near at hand, and able readily to
snd troops to Peking that we were
nj Tlnvnr h1ac Tn
assume much of the role and stand
ing of Great Britain in the East
Because Of this and c,ner influences
We were able to secure from Eng
land the abrogation Of the Clayton
Bulwer treaty and proceed to build
the Panama canal.
The situation in the Pacific suf-
fered violent dislodgment through
the Russo-Japanese war. At the con-
clusion Of this contest Japan had
Asia and had become an empire
girdling the sea of Japan. In spite
Of traditional friendship with Rus
STA, American sympathies had been
strongly with Japan until the war
was over. Then came a chill. The
Japanese have felt it and are shock
ed and amazed. They had counted
the United States their best friend
and revered it as their early teach
or.
And what had caused the
change? There was a complication
of reasons: The Americans wer.
doubtful whether it was, after all,
an advantage that Russia, with
whom we wanted to trade, had been
summarily thrust back from the Pa
cific shore. The American mind
also asked, Is not Manchuria less
likely to have an open door under
Japanese than under Russian ruler
Have we not been too ardent in our
sympathies with Japan. forgetting
that the Russians were both white
and Christian
Then came the japanese sensi-
tiveness and aggressiveness Of poll
cy. displayed even at the door Of our
state department, in insistent visits
and nagging complaints. The San
Francisco school question arose in
most untimely fashion to give en-
barrassment to our government, and
at the same time to give peculiar
irritation to a people who declined
! tc be classed as Mongolians or in
any way to be excluded from the
! lists of the most favored nations.
"All this came at time when
Japanese immigration was increas-
ing with startling rapidity. The OPP
position to Japanese immigration Is
not Calofirnia phenomenon. Pro-
tests are heard also from Vancou-
! yer. B. c., Seattle. Valparaiso. New
Zealand and Australia. 1t Is not a
California question, it concerns the
whole Pacific rim. 1t is question
/, that bodies trouble and it will not
down. =
1.-The Japanese will not submit to
| an exclusion law such as affects the
Chinese. and herein lies peculiar
outlook for trouble. for the people OF
the Orient are all classed together.
AS sentiment Is at tresen-. Califor-
mans would much prefer an access
Of Chinese than of Japanese. They
are as laborers more useful, more
stable, more steadfast to agree
ments.
= THE Japanese are absorbing the
!. csrrying trade Of the Pacific at q
time when our merchant flag under
the influence of hostile law is re-
treating from the seas. They ars
| worthy of all respect and admira
) ton as a nation. and we must abide
lin friendship with them and learr
[ from them and teach them and buy
of them and sell to them, but 1t 4
/ best that the two peoples should no
. hasten too much the process of com
' in to dwell together on the SAM
5 sill and in the same commonwealth.
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