Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1914-02-12
THE ''0PEN DOOR"
IS UNENTERED IN
FAR AWAY CHINA
L. ;. ENTERPRISES SLOW TO AC.
CEPT OPPORTUNITIES
Err NATIONS AHEAD.
Platitudes and Prophecies Instead of
Action and Results.

| New York, Feb. 9.-The other
night in this city William J. Calhoun,
former American minister to China,
! made few statements whose import
was contrary to the idealstic senti-
ments that had been previously ex-
pressed by William J. Bryan, who had
hurried off to Washington. The sub
ject was the increase Of American
trade abroad and the open door op-
portunities in China.
What good does an open door do
us if we never use it,"
Most people will answer Not
much" and that is Mr. Calhoun's an
swer.
We have all heard so much about
the open door" in China that some
people seem to think it is a sort of
county pike, toll-less toll-gate where
tall, thin gentleman with spinach
on his chin, star spangled stove pipe
hat on his head, and red striped PAN
falcons covering his long legs, sits
on an upturned case and whites
wood while huge army of American
drummers files by to assist in the
modernization of CHINA strange
land ''peopled by giants and dwarfs"
by popularizing the use of the pill
low-sham, patent potato peeler and
modern plumbing. Uncle Sam is
there, by Heck, guardian of the "Open
door," seeing to it that the road is
kept clear, and we'll oiled for the man
with the motor-bus! We ought to
know all about the "Open Door Into
China" Didn't we create it and talk
it around the world? We did.
And then, Mr.. Calhoun tells us, we
Just let it remain open! We
haven't bothered to use it. Why?
The "Open door into China" leads
into the fairest land of commercial
promise ever known in the whole his
tory of the earth. 1t is the gateway
into new nation of 400, 100000 fel-
law-republicans, all more than friend
ly to us, grateful to us, because the.
men who won the republic gained
their democratic doctrines within our
shores. 1t is the gateway into land
where an epochal transformation is
being compressed within the space of
few brief years. The Chinese are
presenting to the outside world free
fields of profitable endeavor which
remained battened under matches
through succeeding centuries of re-
dictionary imperialism. There are
railways a-building, factories going
up, department stores branching out,
all sorts of big and little changes TAX
ing place over night; and where, O
where is Uncle Samuel, the creator,
sponsor, guardian of the"Open door,"
He is setting on his favorite case in
the corner, whiting wood and talk
ing about it, or listening to the elo-
quent, altruistic, idealisms of the
greatest idealist in the. history of
ideals.
Mr.. Bryan, fervid, honest, intense
ly religious, sincere to fault, may
recall the warning uttered by st.
Paul: Faith without good works
prof1teth not.'
What good odes and open door
do US if we never use it? Why don't
we use it,"
The other nations are scrambling
through, jostling sach other in their
eagerness to gain advantage. The
other nations have no real sympathy
with our republican brother, Cathay
They have constantly sought, and
still seek, to partition China, as they
have partitioned the rest of Asia, as
they have parceled off and tagged
down Africa, as they have swallowed
whole or piece-meal their lesser
nefghbors in Europe or Asia. China,
wise and gifted with long memory,
ripe in sage erudition when the blind
bard of Chios wrote the Trojan's
ruth: eve fear the Greeks, tho bear
ing gifts" suspects, and has good
! reason to suspect, these Sudden
! friends whose fair words and fine
! clothes may conceal the very latest
models of Trojan horses.
But, as we needed help when our
| country was in the making, China
must have outside help to get into
her modern clothes. Railways must
be financed that they may be built;
bonds must be floated that the rail-