Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-03-31

far moro Formidable TO America than an
Anglo Japanese, inasmuch as America
would then ioin Russia and Germany |
could Mt once crush Russia to powder.
TO tho cosmopolitan publicists OF Lon
don IL is almost incomprehensible that |
Mr.. Knox does not see that his business |
lies in the new world. Mexico, the canal. |
South America will be the fields OF WASH |
ingtonlan diplomacy for many years yet. |
The United States should push her COM
merce there, establish schools, maintain
peace, keep out European powers, bring
about leagues and alliances. help those
backward Latin States in every way. BY
neglccting these fields and turning her
attention to the Far East, the United
States is making the mistake Russia made
when, at the advice, 1t Is said. of Ger
man rivals who wished to weaken her,
she neglected her historic task among
the sister peoples Of the Balkans and bled
nearly TO death in a terrific struggle for
land which can never belong to her and
which is inevitably destined to be deep
yellow. AS n consequence OF this mis-
take Russia was unable to give any assist
ance to the Serbs when Gcrnanism had
| them by the throat in the autumn Of 1905
| why these facts, so patent here, are not
!
kee Is mex plicable 30 every diplomatic
| Chancollery in Europe. Tho blame rests
rarity should think. with the Far
Eastern bores who arc affecting Mr..
Knox. The now system Of educating Am
eiican diplomats specially for the Far
East is also to blame Consular officials
might with advantage be kept In the
same country all their lives. and made to
| t,, lion IN, . Ia 10
but American diplomats should like Eng
lish diplomats, be always on the run, from
St. Petersburg 10 Bucnos Ayres from
belgrade 30 Toxic. Most of the blame
for this late anti-Japanese onslaught.
this artificial agitation against both Eng
land and Japan. attaches to the mer-
chants and spectators who would have
made more profit ont Of Manchuria II tho
Japs had not been there. Uncle Sam may
remember that II was Just the same sort
of proposition on the Yalu that led to
the terrible Russo-Japanese conflict
The blame rests to some extent with
an American journalist who on the
strength of one or two flying visits he
paid to the Far East, and Of one or two
books which he wrote about these visits.
has been represented as Il regular walk
ing encYclopa edia on the politics, religion,
literature. trade. commerce. and every
thing else of this part of the world. This
gentleman does not know ten words Of
Chinese and Japanese but has made
himself ,1otorious bv his anti-Ianauese
writings and his rabid Indictments to AM
erica TO take a line of action which Will
irfalliblv load hor into conflict Vet he
is selectod Nv an American minister IN
China ,o art as that minister's pr,vate
secretary in Pekinp,
Unfortunately. the uniting mower Of the
press is more than oo,nte,.balanced bv ,ts
dividing mower So that. thanks to some
unscrupslous journalists and some "yel-
low journals - we are in very much the
same position as our fathers. who be-
licyed in the existence of men whose
heads do grow beneath their shoulders -
our views OF Japanese ambitions do not
seen! strange to us. because We do not. as
a rule, know the Japanese intimately;
because as a matter Of fact. we cannot
see their views of us any more than we
can see our own faces. Let us take a
mirror. however. in the shane OF n japan
csc paper treating on american alnbl-
tions'' and we shall see at oncee the hui
NOR Of the whole situation, a humov rich
and subtle.
- The Asahi is the japanese paper re-
, forred to Asahi means Rising Sun, and
- the great Toxic newsparer which bear.
. tnat name orcupIas n nlgn position II
.Ianauese journalism. The particular
article refer to is by n member of tn,
editorial STAFF who has seat in tn,
, Dict and is entitled "Competi,ion fol
- Asceudancy IT runs as follows:
There is no DENYING that Great Britain
=. is at pre- sent the greatest of all the worlc
bowers. but the powers whose keen am
hition fo- future predominance on tn,
earth 1T Is best worth while to consider
are Germany and the United States o
g., America Especially the latter with he
- unhounded resources. tho daring tempe
- Of her people. and the vastness of he
domain. may eventually prove hersel
capobla of ATTAINING such ascendancy
. Not only has she set her mind upol
bringing under her SWAY the whole o
" North and south America hut she has ,
" scheme :, hnyc q hand In the affairs o
tho Hast There must have been nthe
" irt,ntione hastdss hint Of merely menac
Ing tho Orient I'm the dispatch Of the At
" 1ant,c fleet Ia tl,o Pacific in 1905 Nigh
NO, their cruise along tle South Areri
= cou coasts have hsen accompanied by
- tborourh survey of those consts? Tn
or.riny of tho Panama cana, for traffic
= t,i,,,, mol, ia o,f.ct tho affairs of TN
oriart wfll Give the United states
has. op o,ara tiors in Central America an
" o,ar,uoll, an,hl. her m overt her innu
. erce over south America