The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-07-20
Effort to Remove Menace
Without Destruc-
ton
PACIFIC CONFERENCE
OPENS AT EXPOSITION
DR.. Eliot Contributor to the
Observation-Disclosures
ton to China

San Francisco, Cal, July 20.-Whai
was STYLED THE First Pacific Confer
ence" opened on the exposition grounds
here yesterday. under auspices OF the
Asiatic institute. The object of the con.
ference is to determine the basis OF a
congress of the Pacific, which should
seek the mutual cooperation OF the ma
lions of the Pacific area for common
ends. Men who have been prominently
identified with the problems OF the Pa
cific are to be heard, either in person
or through letters, including Dir. Charles
w Eliot, David Starr Jordan, Mabel
r. Boardman, United States Senator
Henry Cabot Lodge and Sidney l.. Gu
lick. According to a discussion OF the
situation BY Or. Eliot, which was read
at the conference, conditions should be
ripe for Pacific congress in the early
summer OF 1915, because the results OF
the European war on international rela-
tions and on trade between the occident
and the orient will by that time have
become manifest" DR.. Eliot suggested
that Honolulu would be a good place for
the congress, and that the principal coun-
tries about the Pacific ocean should be
represented, for the consideration OF
matters of mutual interest The success
of any such congress would depend upon
the general acceptance OF certain prln-
ciples of universal application, he said,
such as the policy of the "open door"
and league of Pacific powers to secure
peace and the freedom of the ocean.
According to DIR. Gulick, great war
between the East and West" was threat
ening. Some steps must be taken, he
said, for inducing the nations to return
to China what had been taken from her.
IF the West forces China into aggres
sive militarism, and if China is com
PEELED to seek safety and justice at the
point of the bayonet, the future of the
world is indeed ominous' He reviewed
what he called the ''perfidious course of
the United States in violating its treat
les with China and Japan" and asked; |
of we maintain that the United States |
was justified in its disregard of our |
treaty with China, what right have we
to condemn Germany for its disregard |
of its treaty with Belgium! The degree |
of the consequences indeed differ enor-
mously, but are not the moral issues
identieal?"
One other speaker, Frederick McCor-
mick of the Asiatic institute, went so
far as to warn the conference that "the
sword hangs by hair over the Pacific"
and that the coming shift of the worlds
balance of power "is certain to uncover
the gauntlet that lies between the two
civilizations lying between Asia and
America" This, he said, was indicated
in a canvass of eminent, private and
confidential opinion" which he had made
He said you will be able to Judge
somewhat of the Importance of our Pa
cifc affairs when ! tell you that nearly
all public men are warned against dis.
cussion of them, on what are called pub
lie grounds. II is TO be expected that
in the Pacific basin, where viii be du.
plicated on far greater scale, all that
has happened in the Atlantic The tragic
omen in Pacific affairs Of the ineffective ,
struggle of Americans and japanese in
their international relations TO trust
zach other. may be a warning Of this
American-Asistic relations now are the :
oremost theme of all students of politi-
al and military history-the one great !
lew problem of mankind"