The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-30


The stuff That ExCltCs.
To-day Washington the official
world, Is I'm the mood 10 say to the
Japanese: "Wcll, wc recognize the,
you have special problems, neccs-
sities, even rights arising from your
proximity TO Asia and your dcnrity
OF population. and poverty in raw
materials. We cannot recognize.
however, that these rights extend
southwark into China proper, we
cannot recognize that they cover
Shantung, for example. Provided
you are ready to sec eye Tor eye
with us in tho Eighteen Provinces.
however. We shall he reasonable,
considorair, prepared TO accept the
already accomplished fact I'm Man
churia and tho clearly rorcshadowcd
fact in Mongolia"
My friends who are familiar with
the AsiaiiC situation notably my
British friends who should hc well
Informed, Insist that Japan viii &c.
ccpt this solution, this compromise,
and come back out Of Shautung, Civ
ing Mr., Harding and Mr.. Hughes
that moral and political triumph
which has so much value In the eN-
istlug situation in the domestic
field But | cannot forget that at
the precise moment the world war
broken tho BRUSH wprc given the
naEdad railway TO the Gcrmans with
the accompanying right to exploit a
vast share OF interest In Asi1uc Tur-
koy Yet this largncas did not pre-
vent war. or even delay II for an
hour.
It Is easy enough to guess that ia
pan will accept willingly our per
mission Endorsement approval
when n is a question OF MHnChuria
and Of Mongolia, but Is IL equally
certain that they Will bow 90 our
veto in the matter " China proper
This means, II u means nnythinE,
that we shall more and more be
come the guardian of China Tho
fact Is that China cannot stand alone
that we deny the right OF all nations
10 support it and thus 10 dominate
u. Hut unless we are resolved 20
repeat the record In Mexico aa.'
preserve chaos. We shall have TO
act and tho rewards Of action,
speaking commercially are beyond
compare.
cur Futures Rivals.
Again, all this means that we ap-
pear on the mainland of Asia. II
means that whatever the compro-
misc ~ Washington. henceforth ""
and tho Japanese must be rivals IN
the far east n means that we shall
be involved, cntanglcd, committed,
we, who shrauk from giving even "a
moral guarantee % French security
on the Rhine or Polish Independence
along the Nicmcn lt means that
we are undertaking 90 have an Ash
attic policy as Britain has always had
European continental policy and
that inelu"tably that policy must
ike the British seek TO preserve a
balance OF power by combining, with
the smaller and weaker states and
against the strongest, which Is pat
emily Japan.
Back Of all else what we are do
ing is setting up an Asiatic policy.
We are undertaking to assert ana
maintain an Asiauc doctrins. We
are demanding that Japan shall rec
l. ognizo MS as an equal IN field
which Japan has with ever in
CrcAsihg determine ion sought to
dominate. We begin by Conccdlng
MauChuria 10 Japan, which IL some
thing, the "sinc Gua non OF any
peaceful accommodation Of the pres
cnt issue. hut no less clearly we
follow with the cnunciation Of the
right to ask Japan to retire from
China proper. So far stiil, we as
sumo the IlElI 10 lfnlllNl ullu W Ifk
ulate the future Of a great and
proud people, whose attitude toward
us is terribly complicated by the
fact that we refuse to recognize
them as racial equals and maintain
against them Immigration barriers
which constitute a deadly insult.
All OF this Is a long way from the
original conception of the Washing
ton conference as gathering 70 deal
with the question Of the limitation OF
armamcnts. To get Japan to play
The game we are now prepared 20
surrender TO her ManChuria and
Mongolia. But, after all, this IS
what Mr.. Wilson did AZ Paris In the
case OF ihantung with such disa-'.
trous consequences And granted
that Japan viii retire from shan
tung In return Tor her freedom of
action In ManchuriI, viii she stay
retire? or viii she follow the
French precedent after the confer
euce OF Algeciras? And is the In
tegrity Of China really asserted II
We deny the Japanese the right to
take an arm but bencvolently con-
ccde that proximity 10 leg auto
matlcally bcstows surgical privileges.
Tho real trouble Hes In the fact
that there are no halfway sta
tiOnS at Nhlth nhNlOnS are WIZ
ling permanently TO halt, when
they have set out on the boulevard
Of national expansion, More than
generation age Britain landed
In Egypt with tin promise to re-
tire whenever conditions were
warranted, but today the flag
which was put ashore nj AlCNan-
dria has passed byOnd the head
waters Of the Nile. The special
privileges which ON account OF
geographical contlguity were CON
Ccdcd "a F'rnnCC on one side OF
Morocco have expanded until u
French marshal rules at IIabat
and Morocco, 10 use an old term
once significant nOw almost ObSo.
lctc. has submittrd ~ complete
""runisiriCHtion"
The EnElishmau ASKED the Ger
man to accept the reasonable British
view Of the future ~ Germany be-
yond the narrow confines NJ Europe
and at the same time to agree to a
naval holiday. but the adjustment
was had not al the Hague, but at the
Arnistice and the iiual settlement,
when the German high seas fleet,
sunk by It's own commander, disap-
peared under the waters Of a Scotch
bay.
The Same situation.
We are asking the japanese 10