The Washington times., 1915-01-31

accepted" he said, to Congress. ut will.
IN my opinion. be the duty Of the United
soxs ss;ss to resist % BY every in i: Il:
rishts and interests, the appropriation
exercise Of governmental Jurisdiction
9son essr any territory after a 1S 3yesti
longs to Venezuela."
Britons Stunned Conflict.
Thus war stared us directly. in the
face as the result Of a series Of incl
dents, all Of which had occurred many
hundreds Of miles beyond our borders
and over none of which we had had the
slightest control.
Fortunately a better opinion came. to
prevail In tho British government when
It was seen that the United States was
determined to uphold the Monroe doc
trine, even at the cost OF war, and that
we regarded this matter as OF supreme
importance to our national safety.
Great Britain was not willing to pay
the price Of war with US for few
thousand square miles Of tropical terri
tory IN South America, and presently
as we had suggested.
But suppose Great Britain had been
nursing grievance against US for any
cause. real or fancied. Suppose she had
sion In the Western Hemisphere and
was prepared to meet the opposition of
this country II necessary.
We had furnished the situation on
desired crisis, and we should have been
very. promptly called upon to attempt
another in the series Of "conquests Of
Canada" several Of which have had
tragic Examinations.
Teach Lesson in Defense.
These cases are not fanciful and their
application is not strained. They teach
a lesson so direct, so plain, SO forcible.
that it is astounding the people Of the
United States have not learned 1t long
ago and acted upon 1t with their GUS
tomary intelligence and resolution.
There Is no other nation on the globe
that 50 gayy
the striking teaching of it's own history
with the elements Of
danger, and yet very few of US pay
:. In all of the incidents cited we have
had the extreme good fortune to And
the other side disinclined to push or
permit matters to go to a crisis.
which We have given most serious and
repeated affront, and which We are
liable to find Is OF different temper re-
SaTGlng the Settle1nent. Ihat iS Japan.
Afford Japs Cause for War.
In a dozen different ways we have
offended the dignity and pride Of the
Japanese. We have denied them racial
and social equality.
To a people constituted as are the Jap
anese We have given and repeated about
tho most bitter affront that can be given
by one people to another. In full meas
ure we have afforded them the cause
for war. and We have even also fur
nished the pretext. several Of them.
In fact. we have created a situation
where a new pretext can be supplied al
most at a moments notice whenever 1t
is desired.
All that Is lacking now to precipitate
war between the United States and ia.
Its government that the time has come
for 1t to make it with advantage.
IT that time ever comes we shall have
nothing whatever to say as to whether
or not there shall be war.
Pretext Will Be Developed.
The pretext will be developed with as
founding suddenness and frmness, and
before. with our happy-go-lucky. care
less methods we can begin real prepa-
ration the opening blows will be struck
and we shall be engaged in the greatest
struggle with foreign nation of our
Our people on the Pacific coast. for
reasons that are sufficient to them, are
opposed to the admission Of Japanese
citizens of the laboring classes to their
territory.
Under their treaty with the United
States those Japanese citizens have the
right freely to enter this country and to
reside here. They have the right to
labor here and to engage in any legiti-
mate business.
By agreement with the government Of
Japan we maintain a fiction regarding
a passport regulation, under which we
assume to say that japanese who has
come to Hawaii for instance. may not
also travel to the mainland.
Treaty Called Pure Fiction.
1t is pure fiction. and the Japanese
government has known it as such from
the instant that it was first suggested.
Hawaii Is u Territory of the United
States. Its status Is exactly that of
Colorado, Arizona. Kansas. or any other
of the Territories before they were ad-
mitted as States into the Union.
Under no such fiction as this passport
arrangement can any Japanese lawfully
In Hawaii be denied his legal and his
treaty right to come on into the main
lana territory OF the United states.
II ever Japan gets ready to make
test of strength with us it will! be the
simplest thing in the world for a few
japanese coolies to come to San Fran
cisco. passport or no passport, and de-
mand recognition of their legal right to
enter. The "makings" of a casus belli
are all there.
Y. S. Faces Crisis Now.
Right at this moment President Will
son and the State Department are en-
gagged in a discussion with the British
government that may be fraught with
the gravest consequences to both.
1t is begun, to be sure. 'n the friend
Hest spirit" on both sides. Nothing is
farther from the desires of either the
American or the British people than
war between them. BY every conceiv-
able relation we are both restrained
from resort to such means of settle
ment Of whatever difference may arise
between US.
And yet there are not wanting in tho