El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-06-02
Americas Future Depends Largely
On Present Day Interests In China
Trouble in China.

7 Upon the solution of the interna-
tiOnal problems now centerinG
in Picking depends the political
and commercial future of the nations
! bordering upon the Pacific Ocean n.
! Greatest among these are the United
! States, Japan, Russia and China. AS
| Great britain became the most power
full empire ofs the 18th century by rea-
| son of its complete mastery of the At
lantic ocean, so one of these four ma
tions viii become the greatest power
of the Goth century by gaining the I'M
| disputed supremacy of the Pacific.
As matters stand today, Americans
! believe that the United States is the
most powerful naval factor in the Pa
| cifiC. and the japanese as firmly believe
/ that the supremacy belongs to Dai Nip
| pom. Russia. for the time being is
| quite out of the question as a maritime
power. and China Is the helpless prey
| Of imperial vuItures
| Canal Strengthens Americas Power.
The United States is spending a
| greater amount of money than ever
| was spent before by any nation for a
public work, to construct the Panama
canal The canal. when completed. will
] strengthen the American position in
| the Pacific and VIII enable the United
| States adequately to police and >fen1
| both oceans with one navy. Were that
| canal now complete the solution Of
| Far Eastern problems would be com
peratively easy. They would be set
! tied in the Chinese interest which is
practically the same as tie American
| interest
Japan and Russia appreciate the
value Of the Panama canal as an asset
| to America even more keenly than do
the Americans. We are digging the
| canal and we intend TO see it finished,
/ but we do not seem to have a very clear
notion of why we are digging il or
what we will do with il when it is dug
| The Japanese and Russians, rivals
| though they are for the hegemony of
Eastern Asia, are united in their oppO-
, sitiOn to the United States. China is
| their game and each of them intends.
in It's own time. to control China if it
| can They know that American tradI-
! ton and interest demand that China
| should be preserved intact as q free
| nation and should be permitted 70 de-
veIOp its own resources in its own
way.
Japan and Russia, therefore, intend
to entrench themselves firmly and per-
| manently in northern China before the
United States can complete the Panama
! canal or can build a navy sufficiently
| large to insure American control of
| the Pacific ocean without weakening
! its Atlantic defence
Jealous OF United States.
| All of the socalled world powers are
more or less enviOus of the wonderful
growth Of the United States in wealth
and might. Great Britain. conscious Of
declining power, has made an ally of
Japan. Germany's ambition is con-
cerned with Europe. Africa and West
ern Asia. France must depend upon
British and Russian friendship for pro-
lection from the ever-present German
menace. The other nations have no
money and therefore no power. Tie
United States has no reasonable ex-
pectation Of the support of any of the
great powers. 1t must fight it's own
way backed only by such moral sup
port as the trembling Chinese throne
may be able to give II.
Once let The United States become
the undisputed master of the Pacific,
then Japan and Russia both must curb
their spOliating greed in China. The
Americans would insist upon the ira
ditional doctrine of Chinese integrity
with the open door and equal oppor-
tunity for all nations This would mean
that the United States could have
share in the development of the latent
resources of China, and the Pacific coast
states of the American union would
reap the rich commercial harvest of the
renascent Orient
Japan GraspinE Policy.
But if Japan. before the United States
Is ready to defend its position in the
Pacific or before the American ma
ton is awakened to the Importance of
It's interests in the Orient, should sue
Manchuria, as it already has done in
Korea, and should thereby become pos
sessed of the power to dictate the Chi
nese policy. then it would be too late
for America to capture control of the
Pacific. Japan today might not be
able successfully to oppose the United
States in war. but with a developed KO-
rea, a developing Manchuria and pre-
dominant interest in China. not even
the great American republic could IN
dertake to Gust it from its position.
America Reckless.
The time has come when it Is need
full for Americans 70 consider the flu
ture- For more than a century the
American republic has forged forward
reckless of waste and needless Of the
future, with a blind faith in the IN
exhaustibilIty of its resources When |
new territory was needed, it was an
neXed out OF the boundl essness Of the /
west. But now there remains no new
territory to be taken and the develop
ment of all the present territory is
provided for by settlement There Is
still a vast amount of unused and un-
developed land. but it will be taken |
care of by the natural increase in pop
ulation.
Within the past two or three years. |
the United States has experienced its |
first emigration. Americans by the !
thousands have been moving into Cam ]