Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-08-17
SIDE LIGHTS ON THE JAPAN
ESE-CHINESE SITUATION.
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and hospitals and schools with the
most modern equipments. The For
mosan Chinese are given work, their
health is looked after, and sanitary
measures are everywhere strictly en-
forced. No one who is not utterly
preiudiced can doubt but that the
people of all classes are Thousand
times better off than they were be-
fore. Even the head-hunting aborigi-
mes are given chance to develop
and schools are established all over
the island where the children of
"gentled" savages are taught.
Keeling is one of the very few ports
in the Otient where big ocean-going
liners can dock, and during the tea
season, the big concrete docks with
their huge cranes and the thousands
of busy coolies at work there are evil
dences of a very real and wonderful
change and development.
Among slighter things which the
japanese have to remember of the
Chinese, was the murder of a ship
wrecked japanese boat crew on the
east coast of China in 1874. The men
were beheaded and two Japanese
women who were on board were sold
for So each.
Coming to more recent times, every
one remembers the siege of Picking in
1900, and that Japan suffered and
fought with the European forces.
In 1911 two japanese officers were
insulted and mistreated in Marking
and a number of times in distant,
interior places Japanese workmen
have been set upon and injured.
Andnow comes the last slapof all, the
eliminating insult, which hassresult-
ed, not in Japan turning the other
cheek, but arising in her wrath and
calling Enough!
That was the formal announcement
of the Chinese government last Janu-
airy of the abolition of the war zone
in Shantung!
Not preliminary word to Japan
about it, and no peace concluded be-
tween Japan and Germany-simply a
note from the Chinese government to
the japanese Legation in Picking,
stating that the war zone was abOl-
ished, and peremptory request that
the Japanese troops be withdrawn
from Shantung and the railroad i'm
mediately.
The note was really magnificent in
it's assumption but it proved a last
straw, and Japan is looking down the
years that have passed and at last
sees her opportunity for settling up
old scores.
Japan knows as every one who
really knows the East, knows that
China is a growing menace to the
whole Orient, and an armed China
with her hatred of foreigners is a
horror not easy to reconcile ourself
to.
Admiral Mahan in his book The
Problem of ASia says: "Far as the re-
suit lies behond our present horizon,
it is difficult to contemplate with
equanimity such vast mass as the
! four hundred millions of Chinese con-
centrated into one effective political
organization equipped with modern
appliances" and farther on-""Thus
the claim of an indigenous population
TO retain indefinitely control of ter
ritory depends not upon natural
right, but upon political fitness, shown
in the political work of governing,
administering and developing, in such
manner as to insure the natural right
of the world at large that resources
should not be left idle, but be utiliZ-
ed for the general good. Failure to
do this justifies in principle, compul-
sion from outside; the position to be
demonstrated, in the particular in
stance, is that the necessary time and
the fitting opportunity have arrived"
"The interests of the populations in
these countries is by no means neceS-
sarily Identical with those of the
present governments, nor with the
continuance of the latter in either
form or person. These are not repre-
sentative, in the sense that they either
embody the wishes or promote the
best welfare of the subject. They
represent at most the incapacity Of
the people to govern themselves, and
in their defects are the results of
generations of evolutions from false
system, unmodified by healthy op-
position. Being what they are, should
necessity demand their discontinue
ance, there need be no tenderness in
dealing with them as institutions,
whatever consideration may be shown
to the incumbents of the moment"
If one has "a big enough perspective
to follow Admiral Mahan and take
this broad view he cannot find much
fault with what Japan is doing and
come She finds a huge country at
her doors, scandalously mis-gOVerned,
full of natural resources which have
not been developed and cannot be sue
cessfully developed until the country
is properly administered and thorough
ly policed.
China has no governmental is
Republic only in name. The south
hates the North and central China
hates both. Piracy along the rivers
and coasts and brigandage in the in
terror are almost as prevalent as they
were a hundred years ago. Every
river boat and even the boats sailing
between Hongkong and Macao have
arsenals of guns, and fully armed
soldiers pace the decks constantly on
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