The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1909-07-24

CouhIIy were dDle 10 SEM out meets
and equip armies.
Japan has entered upon an era of
expansion and the movement is one
which can not be suppressed. 1t must
run it's course, which will probably
extend through a series of years, pos
sibly a series of generations At the
termination of the Russian war it was
believed that the overlooking energies
of the country would find opportun-
ity and scope in the conquered terri
tories. 1t was believed that Korea
and at least a part of Manchuria
would become Japanized so to speak,
absorbing vast number Of Japanese
subjects and Japanese capital, but
these expectations have not been real
lied. Korea has been taken posses
sion of by the Japanese, but they
find it a WORKOUT country, already
oYer-populated and so established up
ON fixed traditions and so occupied by
fixed forms of industry as to afford
practically no field for a new race.
Japan may, indeed, occupy the coun-
try in the sense that England occu-
pies India, but it is kind of occu-
patton which affords no relief to ia
pan, no outlet for her teeming mil
lions, no real expansion for any 9TH
er of her ambitions and powers than
those of dominion. Japan's position
in Korea, indeed, rather augments
than diminishes her difficulties, be.
cause without providing a field fol
enterprise it stimulates the spirit oil
enterprise with the vanities and pre-
tensions which so with it. In Other
words, Japan's career in Korea is ten
ding to promote that "cockiness'
which ever since the Russian war
indeed, ever since the Chinese war o.
ten years before-has been a notable
and at the same time an irritating
characteristic of the japanese people
Japan In the course of her develop
ment is bound to go somewhere. Sh,
has exploited her own country; sh,
has filed up the Island of Formosa
she has invaded Korea only to flint
disappointment and to develop new
ambitions; she has sent out large col
onies to Hawaii, to the American coas
and elsewhere, and still-in spite O
all this-her problem grows rattle
than diminishes. She must go some
where; she must find room for he
surplus people. Her natural line O
aggression is to the west and tn
south, but her outlook, the line of he
ambition and hopes, is toward tn
; east. The Japanese people look t
nothing less than the possession O
the Philippine Islands and Hawai-
with such a recognition of rights 70
] their race on the Pacific Coast of tn
United States as will make it at leas
Joint occupier of the country.
If American diplomacy during tn
= Hast three years had addressed itse
, to the development OF Japanese an
} bition, If its studious aim had bee
to stimulate the spirit of vanity an
aggression, 1t could not have hit upo
means better calculated to suppo
that policy than those which hav
L been employed by our government
Indeed, even before this period, v
were guilty of the stupid blunder
feeding the Japanese imaginatic
: with over-effusive manifestations
= approval and applause in connectiC
= with the Russian Japanese war. b
\ far more serious blunder is tn
= above referred to - the message
\ President Roosevelt in 1906 with re
y pect to the public school issue in 81
y San Francisco. From this utteran
= we may fairly date that spirit on I
: part OF the japanese which has Civ
US series of sensations and tremol