The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-10-06
SAYS AERIGA ISw
SHAKING UP CHINA
Writer in Magazine Declares That
This Country Now is Demand s.
ing Privileges III Manchuria.

We have gone into China-first I'M
der the guise of necessity. We march
ed our soldiers into Pekin. dividing
UP the commercial city tknoWn as
Tientsin) among the nations OF Eu
rope, taking as our share vast sums
of money, which, however, we after
ward returned to China in eonsfdera-
ton of orcing China To yield portions
Of her territory to certain financiers
of America We now demand, says
James Hamilton Lewis In the Ma
tional Magazine. that the central part
of China. known as Manchuria, which
is like speaking of the Mississippi
valley of the United States of Amer
lea shall be divided up in its railroad
privileges and its commercial benefits
between England and America.
The great commercial possibilities
of Asia has stimulated tremendous
rivalry among nations, who see In the
great undsyeloped resource unprece-
denied trade opportunities. The wheat
fields are but half cultivated. a Vast
areas only await Intelligent cultiva-
ton to develop the land in produc-
tiVeness that would feed the world.
In the Siberian plains are innumera-
BILE fur bearing animals. The mineral
wealth of China alone has never been
estimated,
All these demand markets. manu-
featuring and transporting facilities.
The Far East has awakened after It's
sleep of many centuries It's mind is
grasping the great problems of the
century. Its nations are reaching out
to their sister nations, with views ot
reciprocity. In the meantime We send
our people to China demanding that
China shall protect the Americans 10
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tected in China. Nevertheless We
must SUIT, for the policy of America.
decline 10 allow the Chinese to become
residents unlimited or citizens of the
United States.
The result OF this tas | clearly fore
saw lately in the orienD is that these
countries would make common cause
against MS because of what thee re-
gard as our dishonorable humiliat-
ing treatment of them. China and
Japan have their grievances against
each other. something akin to what
France and Germany may feel or ra-
Their AS France and Italy. Neverthe-
less. it will Ae remembered that
France and Italy became a. unit
against Germany. though afterward
warning between themselves: that
tney also became unit against Eng
land, And this condition has ever
been 50 Whenever the allies have
common enemy. however much after
ward they may contend as between
themselves,
1t Is true that the administration in
Japan does not want war, Neither did
the administration OF President Me-
kinley want the war with Spain. Also
II Is true that the administration in
China does not want war; but politics
in Japan and China Is politics. as in
England and America. The party
out of power and the people are con-
stantly being aroused by the charge
OF inanity and pusillanimity OF the
administration in power. In Japan
the party led by Count Okuma, known
as the democrats, and the party led
by what would be called the insur-
gent republican, in Japan are a unan-
imons voice, demanding the overthrow
OF the administration In power, be-
cause 1t will not resent the treatment
of America in refusing to allow TIE
japanese into the United States while
America insists on remaining In ia
pan and controlling the Philippine
Islands and demanding spheres of au-
thority in Japan.