The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1913-06-17
Comment, Wise and
QtheraUise, on the NeiUs
The Bysta,1der = =
An Australians Opinion.

What the Japanese editors are saying the pending Amer
icanapanese question what the American editors have to
say what the writers London think have been told
us Now by the Ventura mail, have the Australian
papers, and their comments the situation both umi
Mating and interesting fair sample of Australian opinion
is given in the following extract from the Sydney sum-
which says 5.tve
1T is impossible disguise the essential seriousness of
the situation which has arisen between the United States
and JAPAN but, fortunately, there many causes which
make unlikely The first is the coolheadedness with
which the politicians of both facing the diff
6culty War talk is loud enough in the of Toxic
but is said to be absent from the passing be
tween the governments, and apparently il silenced at
the meeting held in Toxic Further neither country
can be disposed to inammaory war talk for neither is in
condition to carry Japan has not yet recovered
from vast expense of the Russian which involved
her debt of f170000000 and aftermath of which
special of f2G00000 year "a considerable
drawn mostly from the poorer populaon have still to be
paid America with her naval power concentrated the
Atlantic would find it difficult and dangerous to
in the other Thus, for in way lack of read
ness for war is making for peace,
The whole world interested in the dispute forfhe
c of color is not limited to any region any
empire Among British countries Australia, Canada and
New Zealand vitality Interested In Australia the policy
of Asiac has been sanctioned by Great
Britain and acquesced in by Japan the Japanese nation
deemng it sufficient concession to its pride that the Ian
test should be made the nominal for adms
sion exclusion Possibly similar political stratagem
may be accepted by Japan settle the status of Japanese
in California though the ambitious words Professor Naga
of Waseda University do not point to such solution God
made the white and coored equal said this professors
and unless claim equality shall fail to out God
granted in the Australian law, and the Natal law and it
will snice it would be reasonably prudent action in
the California Legislature choose this road out of trouble
while still gaining its point Buff ths does not satisfy
Japan, what becomes Of the laws recognized in Australia
eff the dispute between the two nations should reach
the at which the Japanese for unrestricted admis-
into America and unrestricted rights after admission
then there would be only possible attitude for the Uni
ted States adopt That attitude might be inconsistent
with the famous statute of 1867, which declared that
restrictions OF race color previous condition OF
ude should bar from the enjoyment of civic rights
in the Republic. But the final and neXpugnabe position
of the United States will have to be the refusal allow
Asiac settlement large scale in any of the Western
States Asatic immigration, scarcely need be pointed
lout not like European immigration Social amalgamaoi
between the two is not possible and wherever Their
fringes touch sociay both nations degraded The recog
milton of thisfaet led Admiral Maan his country
region is real annexaen effective than the potca
against which the Monroe Doctrine iormu
lated Free Asiatic immigration to the Pacific Coast in it,
present condition OF sparse population would Asia
4 oec1pati Asia eoenzed in America Those sentence
have been read and understood in Japan well in tn
" United States. sat t .
= Australians will feel profoundly thankful that hi, crisis
did not before the last renewal of the Angloapane
Treaty The earlier treaty bound either party to
the of the other in Asia but the treaty mad
an exception for the which either ally had
of arbitration with the third belligerent Thus Britain
definitely excused from participation between Amer
lea and Japan At this modification of the treaty Austral
felt great relief for it would be impossible
stunning bewildering blow to Australia than to hea
her feet ordered to- fight against Americans the side
the Japanese, Yet that the possbiy,to which
exposed fora time fortunately now ended War betwee
the two nations would stir the British dominons neasy
Japanese treaty surviving serious American defeat for Ions
TT without the most serieIs strain the Imperial affections
RS Australia and Canada" ts..,, a.