The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-10-10
RELATIONS WITH JAPAT.


 the guest oi honor at banquet in ! Tokio given by men high in the po- Iitieal and commercial life of Nip i pou. lie said that the relations between the United States and Japan were amicable and should remain so' Statements were occasionally heard as to the possibility of conflict be- tween the United States and Japan, hut Gary said that the business men in the United States did not antici- pate trouble.
 That was very reassuring. And if is safe to say if the business men in the United States do not want war. there will be no war.
 Cary spoke however as if wars were deliberate personal things brought about by political and indl- yidual malignity, or ill-will spon- taneouslv developed in one people for another. He spoke of war as he judged it by the apparent aspect of causes of war. And he concluded that because there was little senti- ment one way or another as yet Tn nrocass of development in this coun- trv for a war with Japan, such a war is net possible.
 But nations are just the sport ot certain economic forces that are de- veloped in the course of their indus trial development, and all wars have had at their basis with hardly an exception. economic causes to force them into existence.
 Accordingly if we are to judge what will be the condition of things as regards peace or war between the United States and Japan, we have to consider the economic forces and their possible development. If the economic interests of the United States clash with those of Japan and those of Japan clash with those ot rhe United States, whatever may be 1he present time opinions of the in dividuals in both nations, war is sooner or later inevitable.
 We believe that Germany could have maintained gigantic army for years and began the construc- tion of the mightiest navy in the world, yet had not the German com merce proved wonderfully efficient and German industry encroached upon the profits of the other na- tions, Germany would have been al peace today Pacifcists usually ex- agerate the serious nature of the threat against peace which is to De found in gigantic militarist estab- lishments. Unless the economic in terests of a country with such estab- lishments clash with those of others peace may remain indefinitely the normal condition of things.
 Now the United States is a world power. But it is more than worlc power, it is making efforts to be come the greatest industrial, com mercial and financial power in the world. That ambition whether laudable or not, involves the over flowing of the national barriers witt industrial, commercial and financia activities, and these must meet il the whirl of interrationalism othel commercial, financial and industria activities which have distinctly diff erent designs.
 The most alluring of the markets of the world, and one wherein al nations have laid claim to mee upon terms of absolute commercial financial and industrial equality, il China.
 It is over the exploitation o China where the interests of Japal and the United States may yer! reasonably clash. The promoters o a greater Japan have never looked kindly upon the idea of an Ameri can foothold on Asiatic territory The acquisition of the Phillipine -clashed with the continental aspira tions of a powerful Asiatic peopl like the Japanese.
 The Monroe doctrine specificall prevents Japan from obtaining an foothold upon the American conti nent. and that is put forward by tn very nation refuses to recognize an confinemept for its imperialist desti ny within the limits of the wester hemisphere.
 It is not impossible that Japanes statesmen have evolved within thei minds some such conception as ar piled to Asia, as the United State put into documentary form and aI fn nr