Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-08-05
oRIENTALs LOOK WITH susPIc.
ION UPON PLANS OF UNITED
STATES AND BRITAIN.
JAPs CAN'T ARBITRATE
MANcHURiAN QUESTIONS
Toxic Government Suspects General
Scheme to Prevent Further Expan.
.ion-Arbitration Has Not a Pleasant
Sound-Will Insist on Application Of
Monroe Doctrine to Asia.

| Tokyo, Aug. 5.-Hesi.ation on the
tons with the United States looking to
the conclusion of an arbitration treaty
on lines similar to projected between
Great Britain and the United States Is
not horn of objection to arbitration
but arises from a desire to know more
of what may be proposed before COM
| hitting herself.
1t is pointed out that there are GER
tain things which Japan can not and
will not arbitrate any more than 1t
would be reasonable to expect the
United States to arbitrate the appllca-
ton of the Monroe doctrine. Undoubt-
eddy Manchuria is the cruX. So ,nucn
has been said ana is being said about
the hand of the whole world being
against Japan's expansion policies that
it has come to be the popular belief In
Japan that every effort Will be made
to prevent her making any more out OF
her present position in Manchuria than
the life of the leases permits
Plans Are NebuIous.
IT is a fact undoubtedly, that Jap
ans plans for the future. so far as
Manchuria is concerned, are nebulous-
She has developed the port of barren
along the lines OF the program lad
down by- Russia before the war. ana
Darien is becoming a magnificent Pa
cific port There is no intention or
making Port Arthur a naval base. but
it too will be developed along CONNER
cial lines Four hundred miles of the
South Manchuria railway. together
!, hly
involved vast expenditures. These may
be reimbursed by China and the leases
terminated. but there is another In
terest namely, the Antung- Mukdea
railway. which in another year will be
the continuation of the Korean rail-
ways and the last link in the line be-
tween Fusan at the southern end OF
peninsula of Korea and Berlin
Jsps Do Not Go There.
BY the time the leases have termi-
mated. the capital account will be very
large. and it j. doubtful if China will
he able TO purchase. Meanwhile the
development of Manchuria goes on al
most entirely because Of the activities
of Japan. and the Chinaman resident
benefits in so far as he is able to mar
ket his produce while at the same
time. the money In circulation In
creases and he Is more prosperous. Inc
JaIanese do not care to go to Man
churia. The climate does not suit them
and there they Tr1iist come IN compeu-
ton as laborers and as merchants with
the Chinaman who is cheaper labor
err and equally as astute a merchant.
Nevertheless there can be no dount
that Japan intends to MAINTAIN ner
sphere of influence UP to the last.
There has been so much pickering over
certain interests in Manchuria. and so
much of discrimination against others
and intrigue In their own behalf has
laid to the door Of Japan that she al
ways looks for some move that Will
follow the same lines. Arbitration has
not pleasant sound to the Japanese
officials They have been disappointed
by arbitration before. Nevertheless If
the terms OF the Anglo American
treaty are found to be practical there
is every likelihood that Japan Will not
be unwilling to join, but she will all
WAYS ask to be allowed to apply the
Monroe doctrine to Asia