The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1921-10-28
TO GIVE JAPAN
PLACE IN sun
SYMPATHY WITH MIKApO'e TKR.
RlToRIAL NEEDS ASSURED
At ARMAM EMIT PARLEYS
Washington Will Insist, However, On
Open Door and Integrity Of
China; Part Of Japanese
Delegation Here

Washington-With a part of the Jap
anese delegation to the coming arma-
ment conference already in America
and the rest of the delegates on the
sea, America-bOund it is appropriate to
consider what will be Americas atti-
tude in the conference with respect to
those subjects in which Japan is most
deeply interested. These are the same
subjects that will be the most important
in the conference, for Japan'S relation
to the far east is obviously more vital
than that Of any other nation.
If u japanese guests are in the
faintest degree apprehensive Of finding
America in an attitude lacking SYM
pathy with their reasonable national
aspirations, they will meet with an
agreeable surprise, such as ought to do
much both to reasAure them and help
toward an exalted atmosphere for the
conference as a whole. America re.
cognizes h fundamental fact that ia
pan has a population of something
more than 6%0,0OO,0O0 people, confined
on a few islands, of which that aggre-
gate territory is less thar that Of a
medium-sized American state. The
population thus confined within a small
area has a high birth rate, and they
nave the modern practices of hygiene
and sanitation, which enable every
well-managed community to raise a
normal proportion of its babies to ma
turity. This fundamental condition.
coupled with Japan's reasonable pride
n her high development and efficiency
along every line of civilization, is SUI
ficient ground for her aspiration to
expand.
America is particularly under obli-
cations to give sympathetic support to
this aspiration, because Of the fact that
Japan has generously assented and
honorably lived up to an agreement
that her surplus labor shall not come
to California. incidentally, this linn
ltation against japanese immigration
INTO California Is a fait accompli and
VIII not be brought up at the confer
ence. Neither will the broader Ques-
ton of equality, which was brought
up at Paris. When 1t m to deter
mining where Japan shall be given
room to expand, the obvious answer
les on the mainland Of Asia, north Of
China. In Manchuria, Mongolia and
Siberia there can be found q territory
nearly half as large as the United
states. With a present population of
not much over 5000, 900, which under
present conditions Is under the loosest
and most dubious form Of government.
and which would be made a better as
set to civilization by Japanese occupa.
don.
While American public opinion will
undoubtedly concede Japan's right to
aspire and expand, 1t is equally true
that America Will not depart from our
traditional policy of the open door In
China, and that in affirming this policy
at the coming conference 1t will be
necessary for Japan to give up any
claim to concessions. spheres Of iniu-
ence and the like, which impair the
integrity of Chinese sovereignty and
Chinese territory. Americas position
is that the integrity of China must be
preserved and that no outside nation
shall have a relation to China which IS
not haired equally by every other out
side nation. If we are entirely frank
in explaining this to Japan, it will be