Evening journal., 1915-07-21
Sees WAR between
EAST AND The west
DR.. Gulick Tells of Menac-
ing Conditions in China
and Japan
AMERICA DENOUNCED;
VIOLATING TREATIES

SAN FRANCISCO. July 2l.--"A great
war between the East and the West Is
threatening the Rev Dr. Sidney Lewis
Gulick warned the Pacific Conference at
It's opening session yesterday in the Tx
position Grounds.
rr Gulick has been an American
Board missionary IN Japan for twenty
eight years, and recently returned from
that country after representing, together
with the Rev Dr. shsiler Mathews. the
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ
in America as emissaries of peace
This Pacific Conference was convened
by the Asiatic Institute to attempt 10
devise means Of establishing a perm,.
nent Pacific Congress in which all the
countries bordering on that ocean may
cooperate for common ends.
Some steps must be taken" Dr.
Gulick continued, "to induce the ma
tions to return TO China what has
heen taken from her. II the West
forces China into aggressive militar-
ism. and II China is compelled to
seek safety and justice az the point
of the bayonet, the future Of the world
is indeed ominous."
He reviewed what he called the
"perfdious course Of the United States
in violating its treaties with China
and Japan and asked
"If we maintain that the United
States was iustihed in its disregard
Of our treaty with China what right
have we 10 condemn Germany for It's
IA - II -
The degree Of the consequences in
deed differ enormously, but are not
the moral issues identical?"
Japan Wants Human Justice.
Referring TO tho relations Of this
country with Japan he said that "in-
definite continuation OF japanese pa
tience under treatment regarded as
humiliatng is not TO be assumed II
America desires 70 maintain the his
toric friendship with Japan and do
her Justice We must first Of all un-
derstand the real point Of her conten-
ton. She is not demanding economic
advantages or opportunity. but human
Justice respect of Japanese as men.
We need a campaign OF education and
a new policy. which seems 10 require
several things, among them an immi-
grafton law that treats all races alike
and that should admit only so many
immigrants as we can Americanize, in
order TO preserve our institutions and
prevent economic disturbance"
Frederick Mccormick OF the Ash
attic Institute went so far as to tell
the conference that "the sword hangs
by a hair over the Pacific" and that
the coming shift Of the worlds bal
ance OF power lis certain to uncover
the gauntlet that lies between the two
civilizations lying between Asia and
America" This, be said, is indicated
by bis canvass of eminent private
and confidential opinion" He said
"You will 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 dis
cussing them on what are called pub
lie grounds.
Mankind's New Problem.
1T is to be expected that in the
Pacific Basin there will be duplicated
on far greater scale all that has
happened in the Atlantic. The tragic
omen in Pacific affairs OF the inet-
fective struggle of Americans ana
Japanese in their international rela-
tions to trust each other may be 3
warning OF this. American Asiatic
relations now are the foremost theme
of all students of political and miii-
tary history-lthe one great new prob
lem of mankind"
In a communication DR.. Charles w.
Eliot argued that conditions should
be ripe for a Pacific Congress early
next summer, because the results of
the European war on international
! relations and on. trade between the
! oocident and the Orient will by that
time have become manifest DIR. Eliot
suggested Honolulu as a good place
for the congress.