Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-10
War
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render them almost miraculous assistance,
The policy OF the japanese in Mexico and the
South American States also threatens Ameri.
capitalist interests
Recent events have strengthened Japan
without increasing the power Of the United
States. AN Asintic State, with an army kept
up on the modern European scale. and navy
thoroughly ready for emergency, faces
peace.atany-price Republic, practically with
out an army. possessed OF navy which has
been allowed to run down into the danger
zone. and holding points for attack which give
enormous advantages to a capable and adyen-
furious enemy-such as the Philippines, the
Sandwich Islands and the Panama Canal. The
Japanese would be more than human in their
selfcontrol and caution IL they failed to oh.
tain a diplomatic, or forcibe. victory from such
q state OF affairs.
They have concluded, rightly or wrongly,
from the conduct of the United Statea Govern
ment during the war that Americans, at
present organized and ruled, will put up with
any insults and outrages and surrender any.
thing demanded Of them rather than directly
threaten put themselves In posture TO
threaten hostiities. 1t does not need the
shrewdness and frstrate information which
the Japanese possess to see what this means
to them. Nor does the Anso-Japanese All.
anee, which would render British intervention
on the side Of the United States very difficult
il not impossible, improve the outlook for the
Republic, even il the exhaustion of our nation
did not preclude US from any action in this
sense
Asia Is awakening indeed. We ourselves
must not imagine that India is still asleep be-
cause perfect peace reigns throughout Hintus-
tan, and--as they tell us-lnGians are eager
that British rule should endure for cver-so
eager that they voluntarily supply fighting
forces in the field to the extent OF tens OF
thousands OF men. This is not so.
India is stirring too. The Andaman Islands.
81 TNfnoon "a
Land. overlooking with political prisoners,
shipped OFF there without trial, and even with
out accusation, under an obsolete law. Tho
wholesale hangings at Lahore. solely on police
evidence, have been strongly condemned by
Anglo-Indan officials themselves. Bengalis
were long derded by English people
incapable for centuries Of resisting oppression
in any shape We have contrived TO rouse
such spirit among them that anarchists and
assassins are openly cheered when living, and
treated as martyrs when dead. even in Calcutta
Itself. There can be no doubt whatever that
diSaffectiOn is growing throughout Hindostdn;
though the population being entirely deprived
OF arms, any organized insurrection is not to be
anticipated. But India demands seligoyern-
ment and requires that the drain OF f3o00000o
yearly to England from the poorest population
OH the planet without any commercial return
should be stanched.
An empire which declares that 1t is fighting
world-war for the maintenance OF national
rights and national freedoms cannot In decency
keep one-fifth OF the human race In subjugatton
to foreign despotism and liable to the exaction
OF foreign economic tribute on huge scale
II England persists In this fatal policy there
can be little doubt to the ultimate result.
Not even the legions OF Japan would sufice TO
keep India permanently ensaved. The move
ments In China and Japan itself have already
had their influence throughout Hindostan.
However desirable also 1t may seem to the
great Indian Feudatories to exhibit their 10y
atty to the dominant power to-day. 1t is In.
conceivable that they fail to know what
Is taking place around them, or that they fall
to share in the general Asiatic feeling ageinst
the supremacy OF the white race.
When the war ls at an end and peace IS AT
last proclaimed all the leading European ma
tons will be well-ntgh. bled to death. alike IN
men and in money.
Asia will not have suffered: Japan will have
actually gained In means and influence. Inc
lessons Of the terrific struggle will not nave
been Ioat upon the East The relative positions
OF the two continents will have been modhea
stili farther In favor OF the yellow races aoanat
the white. These arc facts which can neither
be overlooked nor explained away The as
sumed superiority Of Europe will ere 'ong pc
definitely challenged. The Awakening o. Aois
Is ths rnost important feature In the World
politics Of our time.