The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-05
Japan BlameS America And England Regarding
 Racial Discrimination
PUBLIC OPINION MUCH WROUGHT UP OVER STTUATION-JAPAN'S PEACE
 ENVOYS SHARE IN CRITICISM.

arc now Cail6o HI Japdl, ldIlU IS further accused of conniving at or f1ctels and nationals In China, who are alleged by the Japanese Press to be fomenting ant-Japanese propa- fanda. The wish ds expressed that the British Minister at Picking should be replaced by one more favorable to Japan's policy in China.
 Aunertca's Offences.
 The burden of accusation, how ever. fall on America. There are few tmproprieties in the catalogue of in ternattonal offences of which the United States Is not said to be guilty She has captured the Philippines and made them American, at the same time protesting desire to grant in dependence to the islands, her real purpose being to acquire a base of operations in the Far East, where sho Is determined to nulnfy Japan policy In China, and ultimately her from that country, notwiths+ Ld- ing all the blood and money ~Apan has invested in her enterprise. By way of backing up this anti-Japanese policy. America IS uniting with Eng land In preventing Japan's ownership of the German islands near Australia, as America does not desire to afford
 
 in the Pacific. While objecting to Japan's sale of arms to China, Amer .ca has permitted her own merchants to supply Human with large sales of ammu milton, which, 1t is alleged, will be used to continue the civil strife In that country. The American popula- ton in China and Korea, both rner- chants and missionaries, are charged , with promoting ant-Japanese agita- ton among the natives, though it B difficult to see how they could make things hotter than they are in this respect.
 America is further suspected of trying to handle the Japanese expedi- ] ton to Siberia, with the hope of dis placing it and having the field all to herself. America is going to build a tunnel between Alaska and Siberia. | the survey being already under way: and soon she will have the two ter i ritories linked up and ready for her | supreme rule. Indeed, the Americans are a wonderful people, and if they | were only capable of doing one-haf 1 the feats they are supposed to be cap able of by the Japanese Press, they | would be more wonderful still; in | fact, guilty of miracles. America | moreover, is going to take away from i Japan the railways she owns in Man l churia, as is proved by the sugges- | ton of Secretary Knox some years ago that 1t would be advisable to neu- | tralize the railways of China. Again, l America has persuaded the League of Nations to insert clause guaranteeing the security of the Monroe Doctrine while rejecting Japan's proposal for the elim- tination of race discrimination
 Instead of respecting Japan's Monroe Doctrine for East Asia, America is constantly interfering in the affairs ! of China and Siberia, a thing impos- i sible to tolerate if Japan is to be su- preme in these waters: and this not Withstanding the fact of Americas having consented to acknowledge
 Japans pre-emlnence in matters Chi Ilese, as was agreed upon in the Isht-
 Lansing document.
 It would be impossible without oc-
 cupying too much space to pursue the
 list of accusations further; but it is iclear that the main idea of such writ
 ing is to excite anhUosity against the
 English speaking people. It may he
 that in this way the Press is divert
 ed from the diSaffected situation in
 Korea, about which little is allowed to
 be published. But such a campaign
 cannot fail to impair the good feel ing which all friends of humanity de- sire to see prevail between Japan and
 her Occidental friends. The public
 does not seem to evince any fear tha;
 scuh behavior may tend to convince
 those prejudtced against Japan that
 after all they are in the right. To
 preserve calm and commanding de-
 meanor under stress of insult dis
 appointment is of the essence of
 worth and manhood. There is, Of
 course, the old habit of allowing the local press to indulge in agitation to back up an official program and give
 an excuse for pressing it in negotia-
 tions, but such agitation cannot legi-
 timately be made. nor can it be al lowed to include angry invective and contemptuous sarcasm in regard to
 friendly nations especially nations to
 whom Japan actually owes her pres ent high place in the comity of na-
 tions.
 This sort of thing does far more
 injury in Japan than in countries
 where the public read foreign papers
 and are more or less familiar with
 the facts and can think for them
 selves. The masses of Japan know
 only what is told them in the yer nacular press; and, this being so, they
 can only have the most adverse no | ton of British and American national
 character In fact, if this sort of
 thing is allowed to go on one can wonder if in time 1t leads to rfotins and to attacks on foreigners, for no people are more liable to undue ex- citement and abandonment of self control than the Japanese when sub- jected to extreme provocation. The Press of England and America is often accused in Japan of tn- dulsing in anti-Japanese propa- ganda. but no one has ever seen , in any English or American news : paper such absurd statements as are advanc I'd against English -sp eakins reople by the vernacular Press of this country Such an exhibition would : invariably bring down upon the head of an English editor the charge that if he were not off his head. he was al 3 least under the influence of some spirit ] more liquid than lucid
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