The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-25
NATIONS POLICY IN FAR EAST SHAPED TO BENEFIT
 WALL STREET MONEY LENDERS
"Soon" Declares Henry George Jr, "Our Leading Syn dicates Will Demand the Navy Sent to China to Up hold the Honor of the Nation :"

1 China at the first sign of another Box | CT rising which is impending and for footing and possibly in the partition | ing of the Chinese Empire
 sDo you actually look for another revolution in China?"
 "All the signs point to it.. Under the cry of China for the Chinese the foreigners and particularly against
 the foreign syndicates. When China emerges from her sleep of centuries she will need steam and electric roads water sewage systems, gas and cleo tric lighting and telephones. These she will get either through concessions to foreigners or by loans from foreign CTS. This will mean either foreign concessions or foreign loans. We know the corrupt methods of the public misunderstanding corporations in oth- CT politics. They are not likely to act better with similar franchises in China, and the Chinese, if they have a spark of spirit will not submit to it. There is such spirit there and it is growing and the cry is against the exploitation of China by the for eigners.
 "As to the loans, everyone knows that they are the sources of most moedrn wars. The inability or refusal of the King of Egypt to pay the dues on compound loans by Lombard street, 
 Alexandria by the English fleet. And in some future date, if the Chinese, from inability or for any reason, fail to meet the debts now being incurred through loans which our state depart ment is procuring from China, our leading syndicates will demand that our warships be sent there to collect and uphold the honor of the nation. One of the chief reasons why there is SO much talk about big navy on the Pacific in certain eastern cities is not to protect the legitimate but to pro tect the forced town and franchise privilege. The trade-the exchange of commodities, the sale of things pro- duced by labor-does not make war. In particular lines we can take and hold our own against the competition of the world, in China as we do in to stimulate we could propose what we did in the case of the Hawaiian Islands establish reciprocity treaty with both countries.
 ''The Open Door, they speak of is not the opening the doors to legiti- mate trade but opening the way to loans and concessions. It is not something for the many freely to en- gage in but privileges for the syndi- cates exclusively. Japan took the priv of war and she will sgdo allgRsre can to keep other powers out. She gave it up once before, at the close of the war with China and Russia slipped in. She will not give it up again.
 'aThe 'open door for United States means involving ourselves in the ex- pIoitation of China for the dollars and cents benefit of our syndicates and ernbroiling ourselves in the troubles that soon are to come there, either through quarreling among the foreign nT-c Sl1 a1~iT1 nf hn 0r through the rising of a great part of the Chinese against the bloodsuck- ing foreigners and the government that submits to them.
 'tNow is the time for American citi- zens to take g. good look at this sit- uatiOn''