The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-11-19
Bio Men of Chicago Leading an
Agitation That Will
Not Down.
TAFT AND KNOX ATTACKED
Charge Is Made That Financial
interests Were Cause of
Dismissal
BY Ernest G.. Walker.

mail Special to The Advertiser.)
WASHINGTON, October 3l.-Chiea
70 is making an oriental issue. The
rest of the country is giving some at
teton. 1t is a Charles r. Crane issue,
ont of the dismissal Of that gentle
man as minister TO China following his
recall from the very waters edge at
San Francisco. Some big men out in
the windy city are leading the agita-
ton, which, it appears, will not down.
The deposed minister is convinced
that big game in high finance figured
in his undoing. It WAS nearly a month
ago that he came 10 Washington for
conference with Secretary Of State
Knox about his alleged injudieious ut
teranees to n correspondent of the Chi.
eago Record Herald regarding a treaty
between China and Japan affecting
mining resources in Manchuria. In
the interim Mr. Crane has been living
much of the time in New York trying
to ferret out the facts. He claims
to have information justifying his con-
illusions and his Chicago friends, who
have now hidden him to public din
ner as testimonial of their confidence
and esteem propose 10 stand by him.
ave desire in this public Manner
they say, s'to express our appreciation
of your character and disinterested pub
lie seTvices.'
interests at Work.
The cry goes forth that J. Pierpont
Morgan and other very rich men in
New York have made ready to invest
large sums of money in China. They
want minister to China who will be
at least sympathetic and who certainly
will not be indifferent to their activ.
tiles or sympathetic with rival finan-
ciers. The charge indicates that Mr..
Crane was not the kind of man these
financiers desired and that they made
o set against him, rounding out a case
which appealed TO Secretary Knox.
Then the newspaper article afforded an
excuse for putting Mr.. Crane out OF
the diplomatic service and IL was siezed
upon at the very last moment, when Mr..
Crane was about to quit the country.
Secretary Knox is known IN Washing
ton as n man who would be unlikely to
any group of finaneiers. Those most
familiar with his characteristics in Of
fee, do not think for a moment that
Mr.. Knox would knowingly lend n
hand to New York finaneiers intent up
on exploiting China for the large in
terest returns they could expect upon
their money. The Crane incident, how
ever, has severely provoked MIR. Crane Is
influential friends They have news
papers and votes and apparently are
ready to harasss the safe department
and the President
Knox Was Careless.
Some are saying ii may be that Sec
retary Knox has not been as careful as
he might be in scrutinizing the repre-
sensations that have come to him from
interested sources. The state depdrt'
ment has been quietly but very effec-
lively encouraging the investment OF
American capital in distant countries
Mr.. Knox's predecessor, now Senator
Elihu Root, and also former Secretary
Robert Bacon encouraged New York
bankers to look mp investment oppor-
tunities in South America. While their
actions were within the bounds Of pro-
priety and Of national interest, both
these secretaries are supposed to have
been tolerably close TO some of the New
York fnantiers who have already put
several millions OF money into South
American securities. So successful were
these ventures, some of which at least
were arranged in considerable part by
the late w. !. Buchanan, that the New
York moneyed men began casting en-
vious glanees at China.
These countries, where government
has not attained an advanced state and
where developments in transportation
and other modern utilities have been
backward, are said 10 afford splendid
opportunities for large interest returns
Much has been achieved in recent year
toward the security and stability Of the
governments in question. The people
are awakening to the necessities o
more and better railroads, street ca
systems, electric lighting, modern sew
srage systems aud all that. Thes
things require considerable sums o
money. Capitalists IN invest In sucI
enterprises do not abound In China o
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