New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-27
To the Editor Of The Tribune

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
, Sir: Il is not surprising that Mr.. George
Bronson Rea should once more take advsnt-
age Of The Tribune. as last Sunday. to direct
another venomous attack upon Japan. THIS
time the former Shanghai editor takes ms
text from his home town, where what ne
terms the American Asiatic Association, new
est and oldest of hyphenates, has. 1t seems
been making an address from which he gives
US an excerpt This, as plainly as words
can make il. is a protest against the Amerl-
can shipping laws and regulations which, IN
effect. have driven American ships from the
Pacific Ocean. What use. they say, sending
commissioners and special agents to improve
our foreign trade while negectinS to do the
things necessary TO set the wrong situation
right? As plain as the nose on your face
and a very natural and obviously right and
fair comment for these presumably inter
ested shippers, merchants. company officials
AID Shanghai editors to make.
But does M Rea take this view OF it,
lie does not; far from it. Does he call on
Congress and the Administration specifically
to alter the pernicious laws that have thrust
upon Japan without so much a single pal
lis:ive of the act? He does not; far from
it. Instead. what have we? A mystical gy-
ration. lie reads a whole realm OF IN
founded, fantastic attack upon Japan into
the Shanghai shippers simple appeal How
sane this is one may wonder. 1t savorS
does it not?) of the fixed idea" that we
hear so much OF in our courts Let US see
how he does il. lie makes bitter attack on
the American government and American
policies, whether in Mexico or the Philip
pines and reaches this conclusion, that
Americans and Chinese are now in a class
together. and the Mikado is the lord over
both" Surely this is madness as well as
malevolence.
One need not marvel that the remainder of
the page given over to such wanderings Of a
DETECTED intellect should meander. with only
the fixed idea" Of hatred Of Japan showing
consistently through it. over all the holes
md corners of the Far Eastern question as
viewed from the rim OF the blinkers worn
in Shanghai and not as they are visible any
where else TO sane minds in the known
world
Again he asserts the closing of the open
door" and equal opportunity" in China.
( again ne brings forward MS perfectly absurd
| theory that the 350,O00.000 Of Chinese will.
yea. within cur own time" become 100
100000 people or lO5O,OOO,OO demanding
the right to exist" BY what process he
breeds Cinnamon at such express speed i
might be nice to inquire but the wOuld-be
alarming statement fortunately comes in
stantly against scientific hose. drenching
it with statistical cold water. The picture
he gives implies that Cinnamon are crowding
each other so in China that with the adven.
of few more corresponding number must
be pushed off into the Yellow Sea. There is,
he considers. about enough room for the pres
ent population If it remains standing; II
they were all to sit down at once half of
them would be crowded into the water
Sad 20 say the contradiction comes from
Shanghai, where Dr. Peter. Of the Sanitary
Board of that delectable city, said last month
in his report:
"Tha average population per square Ii in