Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-11-09

of European settlements in China are
( not what one might look upon as ex-
amples of altruism.
| Nothing that has taken place in the
past is likely TO make Japan believe
that China is going to be law
abiding and honest neighbor any more
than the So-called Christian nations
are going to act in a Christian way
Japan remembers many things. She
remembers that Christian America in
spite of her constitution, stands like
a dog in the manager and warns the
japanese from her shores. Australia
does the same.
She sees the European nations, who
for so many years in their solicitude
for her soul have sent their mission
aries 10 teach her the laws of Christ,
violating every one of those laws. She
sees treaties flung 10 the winds,
pledges not worth the scraps of paper
they were written upon, and reprisalS
of staggering magnitude taken. She
hears of prisoners manned women
and children butchered and a vandal-
ism which never heSitateS at the de-
struction of priceless beauty-a gen.
eral tit-fOr-tat in short, on such a
gigantic scale that it is small wonder
II cynlclSm possesses her soul.
She remembers that nearer home
all these Christian governments have
cheated and tried to get the better of
each other with every new move in
China, and that although each one
coveted the whole Chinese pie they
were willing to combine to keep any
thing but the crumbs from her.
AT last however, Japan'S time has
come and in spite of newspapers in
dulging in virtuouSly indignant edi-
torials on her lack of honor in trying
to get part of the big tart, while
Europe is to busy to cut all the
slices-Japan smiles her inscrutable,
Eastern smile.
She thinks she recognizes all the
greed and SelfishneSS and lack of
honor in episodes of European history
that are so bitterly denunciated now
in her Chinese policy. She has grim
remembrance not alone of China'S
pertidy and double dealing, but of the
insincerlty and duplicity of the other
Powers.
Even England, has during the last
year, violated her pledge of evacuating
Egypt and taken over that country as
another cOlOny-a territory almost as
great as India. Back of it is plaus-
IDLE story of great sums spent there
by the Worcestershire Cotton Spin
ners' association, but since the papers
were signed in August of last year
under Lord Kitchener'S direction and
this followed by the i'm nediLte de-
parture from England of one Of the
big 2. and o. boats loaded to the full
with officers, troops, guns and am
munitiOn. one may put ones own
Interpretation upon it.
All these things Japan considers. Z
She knows too that the Chinese e
Dragon lies across the Yellow Sea and
ticks its bloody chops in anticipation |
of "the day"
1t is a weak dragon now with its !
impotent hatred of Foreigners and
the Japanese, but its strength is
growing.
The present is Japan's time for !
more than one reason, and the day |
may come when with a larger per- i
Spective the world will see that in |
getting for her people the privileges |
and concessions which China has re-
Gently been forced to yield; Japan has
abundantly earned them by keeping
the Dragons claws clipped and teach !
ing it TO become cleaner, gentler and
more law abiding.
LOUISE NORTON BROWN