The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-27
IMPOSSIBLE To
: FINALLY AGREE
NueStionS at Issue Between
United States and Japan Are
Likely to Remain UnSolved.-
FRENCH WRITER'S OPI0NlN
ALWAYS MORE OR LESS DANGER
OF WAR.
FRENCH WRITER'S OPIONIN

Paris, Jan. 26.-Andre Tardieu, the
well known French writer on inter
national politics, who sailed for Amer
lea on Saturday to deliver a series of
lectures on France and Alliances"
at Harvard university, and before the
groups of the Alliance Francois, has
just published an interesting article in
present controversy between America
and Japan. After detailed review of
the events and diplomatic exchanges
he comes to the conclusion that. while
neither Japan nor the United States
wants or is prepared for war, there is
no prospect of a permanent solution
of the immigration question nor of
avoiding the constantly growing clash
of rival interests in the Pacific. He
says:
No Definite Settlement.
1.-THE improbability of an early war
is not equivalent to the certainty of
a definite peace. None of the special
points which have been in issue for a
year has been definitely settled. For
instance. in the matter of the school
controversy the two suits designed to
establish the rights of japanese sub
jects have been abandoned without de-
cision. In the matter of immigration
an expedient, arranged by a diplomatic
artifice, has enabled the United States
to- restrain, not to exclude, immigra-
ton The Interpretation of the Ores
ham Kurino treaty remains controvert-
ed, the Japanese expecting more from
it than the Californians are willing to
accord. These questions permit tenn
porary appeasements, but also brisk
awakenings. And for the latter the
future may furnish many occasions.
Everything indicates that the hostility
to yellow labor in America has not said
its last word. A few months ago Brit
ish America witnessed the same trou-
bles arising from the same causes. A
day will come when the questions will
be general. common to the two Amer
Esas. At present japanese immigration
ITO South America is successful, but
repealed by the north. it has already
commenced. II Mexico, Argentine
Chile and Brazil it will be accepted
until it becomes too strong. In Hawaii
the Philippines and Alaska. the two
races clash and viii continue to clash,
and neither wifi be disposed to yield.
The clash of ideas and interests may
some day bring the Japanese and
Americans TO close quarters.
Depends Upon the PopuIace.
"The Japanese government in its
present conditions will make neither a
useless nor an dangerous war. But as
the japanese have changed their in
duStrial life, so they may also change
their political conditions, and the popu-
lace may some time be able to carry
the day against the counsels of the
elder statesmen. When the population
of Japan, progressing cOloSsaily has
filled up the outlets opened by the
wars with China and Russia, may il
not covet Hawaii and the Philippines
as ii coveted FOrmosa and Korea? But
many years must pass before that time
arrives. And these years may not BE
lost for peace. 1t seems now as if
the disputants were trying in advance
TO avoid a new conflict by simulta-
neOusly resolving the questions of i'm
migration and natuTalizatiOn-by resist
ing the admission of Japanese coolies
and comforting naturalization upon
Japanese subjects who have taken up
q permanent residence in the United
States. 1t must be admitted that moth
ing authorizes us to say that such ne
gOtiations are officially in progress, but
even If they are and if they resulted
in an agreement the problem, in its
essential elements, would still subsist.
Resolved partially in the United States,
it might be raised elsewhere in the
American continent"