The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-19
CONFERENCE URGES PACIFIC CONGRESS
 TO HELP ALL WEST

Ee@A H aACASCOs July s1S-W nat was styled '"The First Pacific Conference" opened on the Exposition grounds hero today, under auspices of the ASta0c Institute. The object Of the conference is to determine the basis of a congress of the Pacific, which | should seek the mutual cooperation of the nations of the Pacific area for common ends.
 A number of men who have been prominently identified with the prob | lems of the Pacific are to be heard, either in person or through letters, including Dr. Charles W. Eliot, presi-
 dent emeritus of Harvard; David | Starr Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stanford University; Mabel T. Board
 man, the chairman of the American
 Red Cross; United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts;
 ant,eI and Sidney l. sGulick' missionary and
 According to a discussion of the
 sitVadon by Dr. Eliot, which was read at the conference, conditions should be ripe for a Pacific Congress | in the early summer of 1916, 'be- cause the results of the European war
 on international relations and on trade between the Occident and the Orient will, by that time, have be- come manifest" Dr. Eliot suggested that Honolulu would be good place for the congress, and that the princi-
 pal countries about the Pacific ocean should be represented. for the con sideration of matters of mutual inter est
 The success of any such congress would depend upon the general &C., ceptance of certain principles of uni versaI application, he said, such as the policy of the Open Door, and a. league of Pacific powers to secure peace and the freedom of the ocean. According to Dr. GuAck, great h0f 1f nA was threatening. Some steps must be taken, he said, for inducing the na- lions to return to China what had been taken from her. eff the West forces China into aggressive mihtar- | ism, and if China is compelled to seek safety and justice at the point of the bayonet, the future of the world is indeed oninous," he said.
 He reviewed what he called the
 'perddious course of the United States in violating it's treaties with China. and Japan and asked: eff we mAintain that the United States was Justified in it's disregard of our treaty with China, what right have we to condemn Germany for it's disregard of it's treaty with Belgium? The de- gree of the consequences indeed diff
 fer enormously, but are not the moral issues identical ?''
 Referring to the relations of this country with Japan he said that 'in- QSnn1IG cOnunuau on .OI japanese pa dence under treatment regarded as
 bun1i1iating is not to be assumed. If America desires to maintain the his- l toric friendship with Japan and do her justice we must first of all under stand the real point of her conten ton. She is not demanding econo-
 mic advantages or opportunity but human justice, respect of Japanese as men. We need campaign of educa-
 ton and new policy which seems tc require several things, and among them an immigration law that treats all races alike and that should ad-
 init only 80 many immigrants as we can Americanize, in order to pre- serve our institutions and prevent economic disturbance
 One other speaker, Frederick Me Coru11ck of the Asiatic Institute. went so far as to warn the conference that the sword hangs by a hair over the
 Pacific,'' <and that the coming shift of the worlds balance of power ''fs certain to uncover the gauntlet that lies between the two civilizations ly- ing between Asia and America This, he said, was indicated in a canvas of steninent, private and confidential cpinion,'. which he had made He said:
 9You win be able to judge some what of the Importance of our Pacific affairs when I tell you that nearly all public men are warned against discussion of lem. on what are call ed public grounds.
 ''It is to be expected that in the Pacific Basin, there will be duplicated on a far greater scale, all that has happened in the Atlantic. The tragic omen in Pacific affairs of the ineffec- tive struggle of Americans and Jap anese in their international relations to trust each other. may be a warn ing of this. Anerfcan-Asiatfc rela.- tons now are the foremost theme of all students of political and military history-the one great new problem of mankind