The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-08-14

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Outstanding by Count Okuma, the
Japanese premier, in a message
which has been given by DR.. Clay
MacCauley, an American clergyman
and author, who for many years has
been a resident of Toxic and an act
i've leader in the American and Jap
anese peace societies.
Count Okuma is said to desire
greatly that the American under
standing of Japan's relations with
China be clarified in some particu-
lars, and DR.. McaCauley, who has
enjoyed close personal acquaintance
with the premier, undertook to graft
fly the latter's wish by reporting a
summary of a half hours interview,
which he had with Count Okuma,
through an interpreter. This sum-
mary is described by DR.. MacCauley
as a faithful one, but not an effort to
reproduce the counts remarks lit
orally.
The rise of Japan" the premier
began, has induced some concern
and aroused some unrest in the west.
In the histories of the nations we
see that often, with the genesis and
growth of a new nationality, violent
~aggressions, accompanied by vari-
Gus barbarities and sometimes afro
cities, have marked their advance. 1t
is not to be wondered at, therefore,
that the rise and expansion of Japan
have drawn to them a suspicious at
tention in the west, especially since
the passing of the China-Japan war
twenty years ago. And, now, a
world attention is being given to the
course of the diplomatic relations
that have arisen between these two
countries. But the intelligent class
Us of Americans may easily under
stand the peculiar position in which
Japan has been placed by the move
ment Of events in the far east.
THE United States has gained it's
present greatness and power as the
result of a long process of annexa-
tions of territory by both purchase
and conquest. You know that the
enormous Louisiana territory was
bought by your country, and that
Texas and California came to you
through conquest. By these acts of
conquest Mexico, directly, must have
lost greatly. Yet, indirectly, Mexico
has been benefited immeasurably by
the conduct of her strong and faith
full neighbor-the United States. If,
for example, your country had been
Indifferent or passive fifty years ago
to what then occurred in Mexico, that
country would have been under a
rule of the French dynasty and the
greed of the ambitious Louis Ma
pOleOn would have been gratified.
Mexico should be grateful for the
friendship and the helpful protection
of the United States as given to her
at hat time.
Draws Parallel
Now, it is not going too far to
say that a very good parallel can be
drawn between the relations at
present existing between Japan and
China and that guiding the conduct
of the United States toward Mexico
in the past - the only noticeable
difference being in the relative mag
nitndes and of the nation
alities of the far east. China has
been supported either directly or in
directly by Japan for a long time.
Had this not been the case, the an
cient Chinese empire = now the
newest republic - would have col
lapsed and would have suffered dis
solution or partition long before this.
Japan has attempted or
wished to do away with the sovereign
integrity and national independence
of China. Even the China-Japan
war of 1S94-5 was fought, about all
else, for the sake of the s%elf-preser-
Walton of the Japanese nationality.
THE course of the recent interna-
tional affairs between Japan and
China seems to have ocCasioned some
sever criticism in parts of the west,
but the diplomatic motives and the
conduct of the discussions have been
right and very just.
1T was evident to Japan that the
German occupation of Tsing-Tau wos
a serious menace and peril to the
peace of the far east. With the co
operation of the British army and
navy. the Japanese forces brought
about a surrender of the Kiao-Chow
fortress. But it is equally evident
to Japan that the occupation of
Using Tau is useless and undesirable.
Because of this fact, even if there
were no other reasons the japanese
government will return the Kiao-