Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-08-07

! justice will be done to China, does noi
represent the entire people. Period
ical literature, which is a better gauge
OF the sober tEOuS4t U, a people tnan
the daily press, Is testfylng month b!
month that this noble hearted nation Is
d vital segment o. me great alheu
movement on behalf OF a civilization
OF brotherhood In ans world
japan has begun 10 set its face
against Germanlsm and what 1t il
costing will only be known as the com.
ing years unfold the story. Inc most
significant witness is the attitude OF
the TerauChi government towards
China internal problem which is one
of strict non-intervention. Every day
that Japan continues TO withhold her
! hand evidences the sincerity OF her
! rulers in the new intcrnatlOnalism,
the internatiORalism OF democracy.
/ Thus the dominant element in Japan
! is the one that hopes the most from
the lshii mission.
First OF all it believes that the time
has come for clearing away all Ob.
stacleS to the closest intimacy be
tween the two sister nations on either
side Of the Pacific. II some. way
should oDen, either through a favor
able decision by the supreme court
of the OZaWa case, or by congressional
action 10 end the discrimination that
refusal to naturaGize Japanese Occas-
ions, the relief to both movements
would be ineXpressible Not that
Japan wants her people to eXpatriate
| themselves or that there would be
many who would or could qualify for
, citizenship TOR the number is negli-
glble), but that the stigma Of Will
holding from Japanese what we freely
grant to the riffraff of many COun,
! tries would be gone. Now, the great
; majority Of thinking Japanese, who,
! together with the mass of men in all
) the Allied countries, are being born
! into the new era OF world unity, are
hoping that somehow when NisCount
/ Ishii returns he will be able to report
! this cause of friction gone for aye.
| Another very deep expectation here
; in Japan is that the craftsmanship OF
! the two nations may agree upon All
Asiatic program that shall first of all
relieve Japan Of anxiety, and second
! be fair to China. In two generations
Russia doomed portentous upon the
horizon of this country's future. Now
that fear is gone. With its disappear
, ance room is left for an entirely new
deal in the Far East. And Japan de-
sires that deal with an ambition that
is daily increasing
! With a threatening Russia the fore
cast had to be militaristtc. Now the
evolution Of this part of the world
may and should be in accordance with
the genius Of both Japan and China
along peaceful lines And America
can guarantee this.
If these two great nations, one with
its surplus labor and with it's know
ledge Of the Far Eastern mind, the
other with its surplus capital and its
business genius, unite to develop, not
! exploit China, the world will be treat
ed to the greatest expansive move
ment it has ever known Not then
with dreams of selfish interest
though like every other manifestation
of genuine progress there is strong
force Of enlightened self-interest in
volved-but with mighty ambition to
| join hands with America in an enter
prise worthy of both nations as we'll
as of the Twentieth century, the more
, thoughtful Japanese are anticipating
: the visit of this special mission to
| Washington. 1t is we'll that it is sent
! by a government headed by General
Count Terauchi, technically a mill
tarist, but in reality statesman
emerging like the progressive leaders
the world over from the past into
! the future, for only such a genuine
representative of the national char
acter can be expected to head with
! that through which Japan, like the
rest of the world, Is passing.
Meantime, with the advent of the
| Ishii mission our own government
faces a most serious responsibility.
We have never as a nation realized
! the momentousness of our Pacific
problem. There are signs that our
eyes are being opened. We can, if We
will, do more than any other people
to change the status of one-quarter
| of the human race. The easy thing
to do would be to remit to Japan the
chief role in the renaissance of China,
to say, as the jingoes here would de-
! light to have us say, that the United
States acquiesces in the paramount in
terest of Japan in that country, and
thus both to abdicate our RESPONSE
bility gained through nearly a cen
fury of unselfish service, and to fore
go the mighty influence which that
service has created. But this would
amount to an abandonment of tried
and true friend.
China's trust in US simply cannot
be betrayed. She needs US and Japuu
needs US in an association that is
sure to benefit all three inestimably.
| There never was call for higher
craftsmanship in Washington than
that issued by this commission from
the emperor of Japan to the govern
ment of the United States.