The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-08
THE FAR EAST.

In the Far East this government pre-
serves unchanged It's policy OF supporting
the principle of equality OF opportunity
and scrupulous respect for the integrity
OF the Chinese empire. to which policy
are pledged the interested powers OF both
east and west, by the treaty OF l9OS
China has undertaken the abolition o!
Liltin with moderate and proportion
ate raising OF the customs tariff alonS
with currency reforms. These reforms
being OF manifest advantage to foreign
commerce as well aS to the interests Of
China. this government is endeaNocing
to facilitate these measures and the
necdful aCquiescnce Of the treaty pow
ers. when 1t appeared that China llkin
revenues were To be hypOth"catcd 10 for
cign bankers in connection with a great
railway project, u was obvious That inc
governments whose bankers held this
! loan would have certain direct interes;
| In the question OF the carrying out by
| cause this railroad loan represented
| practical ana real application Of the open
| door policy through cooperation with
| China by interested powers as well as
! because OF It's relations 10 the reforms
! referred 70 above, the administration
deemed American participation to be of
| great national interest. Happily, when
| II was matter OF broad policy ur-
gent that this opportunity should not be
lost. the Indispensable instrumentality
! presented itself when a group OF Amer
lean bankers OF national reputation and
| great resources agreed at once to share
In. the loan upon precisely such terms
|
| chief of those terms was that American
| railway material should be upon an exact
equality with that Of the, other nations
| joining in the loan In the placing of OF
dcrs for the whole railway system. After
months of negotiation the equal partic
| patton OF America seems at last assured.
| 1t is gratifying that Americans will thus
| take their share In this extension OF
| these great highways of trade ana To
believe that such activities will give a
| real impetus 10 our commerce and VIII
prove n practical coroliary 10 our his
| torlc policy In the Far East.
Chinese in America,
I'll" Imperial Chinese government In
pursuance OF it's decision To devote funds
/ mi,tcd 10 them 10y sending students 10
/ this country has already completed ar
rangcmcnts for carrying ont this purpose
| and a considerable BODY OF students have
arrived To take up their work IN our
schools and universities No one can
doubt the happy effect that the assocla-
| tions formed by these representative
| young men Will have when they return
to take up their work In the progress
! sivc development OF their country. The
| results ot tn" opium conference at Shang-
! hal last spring at the invitation OF the
| Gnitcd states have been laid before the
government. The report shows that
| China is making remarkable progress and
! admirable efforts toward the eradication
| of tho opium evil and that the govern
| mcnts concerned have not allowed their
| commercial interests To interfere With
| a helpful cooperation In this reform
| Collateral inrcstig3 tions OF the opium
question In this country lead me To rec
| use of opium and its derivatives In the
| United States be far as possible
more vigorously controlled by icgisla-
| ton. In one of the Chinese pancse
! conventions OF This year, there was u
| provision which caused considerable pub
lie apprehension in that upon It's face
| II was believed In some quarters to seek
| 10 establish a monopoly OF mining privi-
lcges along the South ManchurIan and
Antung Mullden railroads and. thus to eN-
| clude Americans from Il wide field of
| enterprise. TO teke part In which they
| were entitled by The treaty with China
After a thorough examination of the CON
| Vcntions and of the several ConteXtural
| documents. the secretary of state reached
the conclusion that no such monopoly
was intended or accomplished: However.
in view of the widespread discussion OF
| this question. To confirm the View it
had reached. this government made in
quiry OF the Imperial Chinese and Jap
anosc governments and received from
each of them assurance that the provision
| bad no such purpose Inconsistent with
TO which the slgnatores. in common HSr With
the United States are pledged
Relations With Japan.
Oui traditional relations with the Jap
! anose empire continue cordial as usual
AS the representative OF Japan. His I'm
| perial Highness Prince Kuni visited the
| Hudson Fulton celebration. The recent
visit OF delegation OF prominent busi-
ness men as guests OF the chambers OF
| commerce of tho Pacific slope, whose rep
! resentatives had been so aereeably re-
| cciycd in Japan will doubtless contribute
to the growing trade across the Pacific
as well rs to that mutual understand :
| ing which leads TO mutual appreciation.
| The arrangements OF 1908 for a co-opera-
! tive control of the coming OF laborers
10 the United States has proved To work
| satisfactorily. The matter OF a revision
| OF the existing treaty between the United
! States and Japan which is tevmipablc
in 1872 is already receiving the study
| Of both countries.
| The department OF state is consider
| Ing the revision in whole or in part of
| the existing treaty with Slam, which was
concluded in 1886 ana is now, In respect