New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-06

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the terms which the United States believes
Just In the present event therefore. II Japan
keeps the door closed it will not deprive the
United States or other countries Of any privi-
leges which the Open Door had conferred
The position of Japan in the Far East to-
day is the result OF a relatively brief develop
ment, but one most significant, so far as
China is concerned. II has been the develop
ment OF great army, trained and armed in
European fashion, and Of a great navy built
upon European models Such forces China
has never possessed. Such forces, indeed, no
other power possessed in the Far East.
Armies and navies the European nations did
have in Europe. at least equal in efficiency
and size to those OF Japan. bur the Japanese
possessed the astounding advantage OF being
the only resident power IN the Far East armed
and ready to fight
The Japanese controlled the situation, be-
cause in comparison TO her the Chinese were
not armed at all. Europe did not control the
situation in actually. because the European
armies and navies located thousands of
miles away. They could, OF course, be trans
ferred to the scene, fact which the Japanese
have always borne thoroughly in mind.
Under these conditions it became clear that
the European nations and not China, stood
in the way of the domination of Eastern Asia
and OF the Pacific by the japanese They
alone possessed the military power China
lay supine before them.
When we reflect that Japan is thoroughly
versed in European traditions and realizes
Europe's conviction that the trade with the
East has long been the road 70 wealth OF the
most prominent European countries, we shall
easily see the logic of the Japanese. II Eng
land has grown wealthy. and has therefore.
become prominent and influential. by means
of the trade with India and China, why can
not the Japanese. by developing that same
trade. also raise themselves TO a position of
prominence: Why should Asia he exploited
generation after generation for the benefit OF
the European? Why should England dip her
bread in the Chinese cup and snatch from tho
hand OF tine Asiatic his hard-e earned profit?
ASIATIC SELF-DECEPTION STRANGE
LY LIKE EUROPEAN PRODUCT. -
Would il not be poetic justice for the
and control for his own benefit the trade be-
tween the rest Of the world and Asia' Asia
for the Asatc" has become the great slogan
of Japan. To be sure, the Japanese see it az
the rule Of the Japanese in the Far East
and the extension of Asiatic trade at their
hands; they see Asiatic profits as Japanese
profits, and look upon their rule OF China as
the equivalent of Chinas salvation Let Us
be candid enough 10 admit that the European
has always justified his penetration OF Asia
and his control of Asiatic states by this same
logic, which identified his rule and his profit
with their development and their gain. The
Japanese cannot see why it is worse for them
to aid" China to get upon her feet than il is
for the Europeans to undertake the same
task from the same commercial reasons, COW
cred by the thin cloak of humanity. II is
most difficult for us Occdentals TO see our
selves as the Oriental has seen us, and TO
realize that we are all being excluded now
from the Far East by virtue Of the precise
logic by which we justified to ourselves our
penetration.
EXPULSION OF EUROPEANS A PRE-
REQUISITE OF CHINESE SALVATION.
But before all this could come to pass the
European must be expelled. Asia must once
more fall into the hands of the Asiatic.
Treaty ports, commercial treaties, territorial
rights, privileged status must all be ended.
China must be free from the grasp of the
European. Her bondage must come to an end
for good
The exclusion Of the European had now be-
come possible to contemplate without the
sacrifice for the Asatic OF those great mate
rail gains which the intercourse with the Eu-
ropean had brought to Japan and China and
which it is hoped will so largely develop and
improve the material conditions in the Chi
nese Empire in the coming generation. Great
and farseeing plans have been made by the
Chinese. and these the Japanese know il
would be greatly 10 the detrment OF the Chi
nese to hamper. Railroads, factories. min.
ing machinery, these are indispensable TO
the Chinese These il would not be 70 the
advantage OF the Asatic 10 renounce For
them the privileged status Of the European
was a fair price. even a necessary price.
INDUSTRIAL JAPAN DOVETAILS INTO
CHINESE LABOR.
But the industrial development of Japan,
which had forged ahead at so much more
rapid pace than that OF the Chinese now
made it possible for the Asiaue to throw