Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-11-13
US. Chinese POLICY
IS AIDING JAPAN
FORMER MINISTER TO CHINA
DISCUSSES RELATIONS
WITH REPUBLIC.
GIVE The JAPS ADVANTAGE
Japan Occupies Place in China
Formerly Held by This
Country,

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-The policy
/ Of the United States toward China has
resulted In the asceudency of Japan
and the decline Of American influence
and trade, says W w RoCkhill, for
mer minister to China, and now spe-
cial adviser to President luan-Shi- -kai
in an address tonight TO the ASiatic
Institute. The attitude of the present
administration at Washington, Mr.
Rockhill said, had oCcasioned the
profound regret of China and her
friends"
Mr.. Rockhin asserted that from
SOS Japan had taken the place OF
the United States as guardian of the
open door in China, and become its
chief exponent Japan renewed her
alliance with Great Britain i'm 1905,
pledging the maintenance of the
open door
mot content with these pledges Of
its good faith in the policy of the
open door in China" said Mr.. Rock
hill, Japan, I'm 1907, pledged herself
again to it in an agreement with
France, and yet again in 1908 to the
United States"
From this point MI Rockhill traced
the decline of American interests in
China and criticised this country's
eastern policy.
There is absolutely no doubt" he
said that in southern Manchuria,
British and American trade have been
steadily declining since that part Of
China passed under japanese control,
nor Is there any doubt that II has
been for a great part driven out by
japanese competition supported by
preferential customs and railway
rates, shipping bountics, and success
D.,
churia to paying Chiua's internal
taxes. America, the protag0nist Of
the open door policy, let pass out
its hands the duty and responsibility
Of maintaining it, and the honor of
retaining the commanding role i'm the
affairs Of the Far East, which would
have been ours.
Before, however, retiring from the
scene of activity i'm China our govern
ment, in 1909, made one more attempt
to maintain the policy of the open
door by securing American financial
participation in several important
loans which the government of China
was seeking to negotiate with various
foreign banks. ! will not dwell on
the stirring incidents which marked
the fleeting appearance of America I'm
the field OF finance and politics in
China, but ! cannot pass it without
mention of the permanent moral ben
efits IT brought us, the practical as
sistance it rendered China, while it
lasted, in defending her rights and
interests, and the profound regret of
China and her friends when, moved
by idealist views and imperfect infor-
nation, the present administration at
Washington saw fit, in the spring of
last year to withdraw its support from
the American banks. While declar-
ing that our interests are those OF
the open door, a door Of friendship
and mutual advantage. This is the
only door we care to enter, II de
clined to take another step to show
the one or to secure the other.
"Hostilities between Germany and
Japan, with which China entertained
friendly relations on the territory over
which the terms by China's agree
ment with Germany, she still had "all
rights OF sovereignty" was character
lied by Mr.. Rockhill as "a most flag
rant breach OF neutrality"
Mr.. Rockhill said China was in
need Of the moral support of foreign
military, especially American, to pre-
serve at this time her neutrality and
insure internal peace.
81 have not heard that our naval
forces In the China station have been
increased" he continued. ''or that we
have taken steps to fulfill this duty.
can but trust that the necessity of the
case has been appreciated and ade-
quate measures adopted to discharge
our obligations.
80 long as we shut our eyes to the
undoubted fact that, In the east, at
least, politics, finance and trade go
hand In hand, and that neither the
profits OF trade can be fully reaped
nor our influence and prestige be
adequately upheld without incurring
the responsibilities incident to polit-
ical and financial activity. we must
be content to play modest effaced
role In the Far East. unworthy, in my
opinion. OF our great country and its
vast interests In the Pacific