The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-08-24

by wise international diplomacy
we can avoid a war with Japan" said
Arthur Rees, at the morning session
of the chautauqua when he lectureG
on Japan, the Next Democracy"
Japan is coming into a new era CT
industrialism. The tension between
Japan and America can be lessened if
we give to some japanese, citizen
ship"
The African is given citizenship and
the finest of the Japanese are refused
the same. Some changes ought to be
made. The old distinction must be
erased. The Japanese and Chinese
who enlisted in our navy and army
are the only ones who can receive
citizenship. We must prove that the
war was fought for a democracy of
all people," said Mr.. Rees.
He showed to his audience old ia,
pan, the Japan that lived unto herself,
that produced the host beautiful arts
in the world, the idealistc Japan, un.
contaminated by imperialism and
ACKNOWLEDGMENT, the Japan that devel-
oped her arts and her literature.
Japan Was Modernized.
4" When the Japanese saw the en-
croachments of civilization upon them
they wanted new rule, new foreign
policies, etc. The peaceful and beau
tiful Japan felt that she must follow
in the footsteps of the white man to
preserve herself. At the outbreak AZ
the imperialistic awakened Japan
came the strike at China. When she
was forced by Europe to give back
what she had taken, she was humil-
lated, and has since that time resented
with ever increasing fervor
DR.. Rees traced the steps that were
taken by the white civilization to get
into the Orient, Russia with her covet-
Gus designing; Germany, France, Eng
land and Russia, upsetting the balance
of power in the east, up to the Boxer
rebellion when the diplomacy of Hay
and Roosevelt saved the day
Japan has needed to watch the other
nations, declared the speaker, but she
is following the white mans methods
with too much vengeance Japan is
penetrating into Shantung with opium
and prostitution, and driving the
Chinese out.
rs it any wonder that China is
seeking advice from u.s." asked DR..
Rees. She SCOTS at the idea that
Japan will return Shantung and it is
only natural because the Chinese have
never kept their promises with Japan
The Japanese are doing as much to
stir up the yellow peril as any white
people.
Nation in New Era
But the Japanese are facing a new
era. They have the right to expand
! and to protect themselves. Japan has
a preeminent interest in the east
She is more warranted in upholding a
! Monroe doctrine in the east than we
have in the two Americas. She is
facing strikes, demands for eight hour
days, demand for universal suffrage
and already there are signs of social
! ism.
when Russia quiets down the Boil
shevists are going to Japan, said the
speaker, and they will unite with the
discontinued, dissatisfied elements
there. What solution shall we be able
to give to Japan in her coming strifes
There is no doubt that there are some
Of her peoples signing that she wa:
ever introduced into the world. She
has lost her arts and her idealism
and it has brought her nothing.
We must protect the territorial in
tegrity of China against aggressive
| unwarranted pictorial financia
| schemes. When war broke out il