Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-08-30

needs the Chinese market, and she
proposes to take it. More than that,
she proposes to use the United States
as her means of reaping its benefits
Unable to cope with the task of de-
NelopinS China alone, she wants to
DO the work by employing the finan-
cial strength of the United States
American capital will be forced to ap-
ply itself through Japanese channels
II II Is to be applied at all Japan is
compelling China to put the rights of
entry and development into Japanese
hands. The open door is being turned
into tollgate with Japan behind the
wicket.
The question is not only one of dol
lars. 1t is not primarily one of dollars.
II is primarily q question of principle,
and in that question, America stands
for the right. This country to-day is
passing through an acute revulsion
from former weakness for self
hattery. The soul-searchings raised
by the great war have punctured a
good many bubbles of national egot-
ism. But our Chinese record bears the
test. We stand in china for a square
deal-Just treatment for Chinese, for
Japanese, for Europeans, for Ameri-
cans; fair field and no favors. We
are asserting the fundamental princi-
pies of our republicanism and our
money
at stake in China.
Japan has also the problem of her
surplus population to deal with. Her
chosen outlet for that population is
across the Pacific. Her stumbling
block is the Monroe Dostrine.
Her ends are not confined to ques-
tions of eXpediency alone. She has
high ideals in the matter of her des-
tiny. She believes that she is the chos-
gn n adj
Alone among Eastern nations she has
assimilated Western culture and West
ern civilization without for a moment
losing her Oriental individuality. . She
was the first of Eastern nations to
vanquish a Western foe. Her blows at
Russia put new complexion on the
relation of half the world to the other
half. They destroyed at one stroke
the old belief in the innate superior
ity Of the occidental. Japan gained a
new status for every Oriental and for
herself the place of leader and repre-
sentative of the Orient-and she gain
ed it by force.
! There is the matter of Japan's ma
tional pride to be considered. The
oretically at least, and to a very large
extent practically. the individual Jap
anese puts the glory of the empire and
the semidivine emperor above all
personal considerations of profit OF
WE'LL being, even above his life. Such
a people can i'll swallow arbitrary dis
tinctions drawn against them by 9TH
er nations, especially distinctions
which cast an imputation of inferior.
ity. The Japanese are keenly alive tc
this aspect of the situation. They
have begun to tell us that the time ha:
come for us to stop declaring how
much we admire them, and do some
thing to prove 1t. They have giver
form to their dissatisfaction with oul
attitude in a violent press campaign
directed against us that has filled the
n9tion with hostility 10 America.
japanese statesmen have never 70
a moment lost sight of the opposition
they may meet from the United State
in dominting China and in emigratini
Lacross the Pacific. They are prepar
ing to meet that opposition. No othe
!, possible object can be found for Jap
ans great military and naval pro
gram.