The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1914-06-11
MUST FIGHT u. S.
Japan's Only Hope Is War With
America.
Economic Necessity Will Force Japa,
nese Into Territorial Expansion
Car Awaits Hostilities That
Will Give Him a Chance.

q huge force in eastern Siberia await.
ing the moment when Japan is en-
broiled with some other power to
swoop down upon Manchuria and re.
the territory lost in the last
war. says the Literary Digest. But
Japan seems hopelessly peaceful and
the st. Petersburg Novoe Vremya, re-
garded as a semio1ficial organ, comes
out with al article showing Japan
how mistaken its peaceful attitude
really is. America is plainly pointed
out as the real enemy and Japan is
advised by friendly insinuation to re-
taliatc for her rebuff in California and
to do something to repair her failure
in Mongolia by aspiring to the cap.
ture Of the Philippines and Hawaii.
This organ of the Russian govern.
ment points out that Korea and Man.
churia have not justified the eXpecta.
tions of Japan. While affording great
scope for the administrative abilities
of the Japanese, they offer but little
opportunity for the colonization of ag.
riculhlral masses. which is declared
to be that country's most urgent
need. Japan, therefore, turns her
vision toward the Philippines, Hawaii
and the Pacific coast of America,
where she is confronted with the o
trine, America for Americans" As
was to be expected, the organ Of the
ST. Petersburg ~bureaucrats condemns
the United. States for our "violation'
OF Japan's treaty rights, and suggests
to the latter that she cannot gain any.
thing by diplomatic representations.
"The United States has stopped the
immigration of Asiatics,' it says, "the
Japanese among them. Until recent
days Mexico was open to the latter
whittier the stream of Japanese emil
grafton has been turned. With the
completion Of the Panama canal Mex,
leo viii fall under the shadow Of the
United States and the day is not dis;
,tant when it will cease it's indepen,
dent political existence and at the
same time n of the promised landa
will be closed to Japan.
"A clash between the United States
and Japan is thus preparing itself, de-,
spite the will and intentions of diplo,
mats. New lands suitable for the set,
1lement OF large, powerful masses are
a vital necessity to Japan. Either
land-or national death. Under such
conditions one can quite understand
the alarm which seizes Japanese so.
ciety at the thought of the near open.
Ing of the Panama canal. which is to
Japan equivalent to the closing of the
doors Of America.
"The American peril is now be.
coming a more vital problem for
Japan thar the yellow peril is for
Europe. Having been carried away
by the chimerical struggle with Rus
STA, the Japanese statesmen wasted
the energies of the people and missed
a favorable moment for the strength
entng of their influence and authority
at points where their national instinct
iwpelled them to go-the islands of
the Pacific ocean and the farther
shore. Now, instead of direct action,
they have to console themselves with
political demonstrations and verbal
determination with the Mexicans. Un-
fortunately, it is impossible to acquire
new lands by such means"
Japan missed its chance, this Rus
sian writer AYERS, when it failed to In
sist on its rights before the piercing
Of Panama. Our navy was mainly in
the Atlantic, our Pacific seaboard lay
exposed to attack:
But Japan was exhausted by it's
exploits in Manchuria and sacrificed
it's rights and its dignity. True, in
expectation of better times, it hastily
continued it's ornaments. But on the
day OF the opening of the Panama
canal, which gives the United States
the possibility of transferring in case
OF necessity its battle ship %squadrons
from one ocean to the other, the mill.
tary chances Of Japan will be les.
sened. And If 1t bore patiently the
violation of its legal rights before the
opening of the canal it will hardly
have he courage to insist upon them
afterward.
Nevertheless, the tendency toward
warm waters and fertile, uninhabited
lands, caused by the scarcity of lane
in Japan, will remain in full force
and seek an outlet.
"Wil the international diplomatic
%sorcerers be able to direct this lifa
current into a false channel once
more?
Before the war Japan procured for
her subjects arriving in the United
States complete equality of rights
with all other Immigrants. After the
wa-ofticially victorious, but in real,
ity suffering grave wounds-the trt.
umphant Japanese have lost in a very
friendly country all the rights recog.
nized so very recently by a solemn
treaty. They nave been ranked
among the lower races, on a level
with other acknowledgements, Chinese:
Shmese and Hindus.
"Tho prohibition to the Japanese to
enter the United States was at first
put in all outwardly decent FORM. Ii
was stipulated that Japanese emil
grants, in order to have the right to