New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-25

America Will graduate from INC wal VIZ
worlds chief producing and trading nation
needing and reaching into as never before
every foreign market, and that 1t Will per-
emptorily refuse to surrender single trad
ing privilege which hitherto it has enjoyed
in China elsewhere.
Upon sentimental and moral grounds as
we'll the project Of Japan collides with our
views. II must be remembered that China
is our protege, in the sense that, having re-
Gently adopted our form of government, 1t
has become republic. The American people
have sentimental stake in the preservation
of its independence, they, like the Chinese,
having had to overthrow autocratic tyranny
in order to secure freedom.
Indeed, SO irrevocably opposed to the sub
jugation of republican peoples by autocratlc
governments are Americans that their fun
damental foreign policy as expressed in
the Monroe Doctrine, is based upon this
principle, while their slogan in their war
with Germany demands that the world shall
be made safe for self-governing nations.
Should we assent to the subjugation OF our
longtime friend, our protege, our fellow re-
public China how uncomfortable our seat
at the not distant peace table while listening
TO an eloquent plea by Germany that we
agree to its continued control Of Belgium
for the latter's good, as we had agreed to
the control of China by Japan for the better
ment Of the Chinese!
Control of the Pacific
These are not the only thoughts occupying
our attention which the japanese mission
will find in it's way. There are others, al
fecting the Anglo-Saxon control of the Paci-
fc, and the regrouping Of the powers after
their several kinds which it is believed tbs
future is likely to reveal.
An irritablity with the British on the part
Of the Japanese has lately been too apparent
to be overlooked. Resentment over the fact
that the British, like ourselves, are too fonc
Of the "open door" in China to permit Japan
to close it to all trade but her own is uncom-
fortsbly evident in Japan. This, and the GER
tainty that in the councils hereafter OF tho
British Empire Australia, New Zealand and
Canada will have voices not hitherto hearo
therein, have plainly made the japanese res
tive participants in the war.
If Japan will now but take vigorous part
in the conflict, lending TO her allies the fulI
weight of her military power, 1t Will go tai
towards allaying suspicious of her plans
which are beginning widely to be voiced
On August 3, 1917, there appeared IN Inc
New York Tribune the following dispatch:
Washington. Aug 2-Complete defeat Of Germany
by the Allies will not be of great benefit to japan
ia the opinion Of Professor Senga Tsurutaro OF kot'
Imperial University, set forth in "Tayo.' Japan
leading political magazine.
The triumph Of the Entente, he says, would re
suit in Great Britain welding the dominant power
in the Far East seriously affecting Japsns com
mercia and political interests. Japan, he says
would be put 10 Serious trouble by the arrogant
attitude Britain may assume after the war.
Things will not be so bad if the war ends IN 9
draw he thinks but complete German defeat might
mean British domination not only of Europe. but
Of the Far East also.
But in that case he says, while Japan would
be gaining practically nothing, Britain would start
further activity in the East free from the German
pressure which has hitherto been imposed upon her
She will give full play to her political and com
mercial policies in China, and she can act as
she pleases in India and Australia, she will pro-
coed TO obstruct the business of foreigners, and
especially of the japanese, Japan's position in the
East being seriously affected politically and COM
mercially."
This and other Japanese utterances unfort-
unately have led many to believe that there
already exists a tacit agreement between
japan and the chief enemy of the Allies
whereby after the war, each will further the
PLANS of the other in the East and elsewhere
1t is suggested, for instance, that for such a
cooperative understanding with respect tc
the East, the Pacific and the Latin Americas
Germany could we'll afford to offer to pay
handsomely-out of the pockets Of China