Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-11-16
INDIANA DAILY TIMES, WEDNEsDAY, NOVEMBER IT, 1921.
u. S. INTERESTS
CENTERS IN FAR
EAST DECISION
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review of the relations between the West
and the East, how they have expanded
and the results that have accrued from
| them
| When Balboa, in 1913 waded into the
Pacific and took possession of the new
ocean in the name of the King of Spain,
he brought to Europe and America new
| opportunities for the conquests of trade
and war, but he opened as well sea of
| troubles and problems.
| Fringing those shores of the wide Pa
cific on the east lie the great problems of
China and Japan, and while these old
empires slept their hermit sleep, the row.
| ing Anglo SaxOns crept in and peopled
the continent Of Australia and fertile New
| Zealand and appropriated the romantic,
magic islands Of the South Seas.
Gold discovered in California brought
the Anglo Saxons to the Pacific Coast Of
the United States and a slower settle
| ment brought them to the western coast
] Of Canada.
And still the hermit empires slept their
( ages-lOng sleep-bOth Monaghan, both
civilizations, but differing in their out
| look on life.
China is a vast aggregation of peoples
| devoted to work, to business, as we
understood the word-a country where to
| engage in business successfully brought,
as with us. honor, not disgrace. A coun-
| try where an ancient philosophy had
| taught even the mass Of people to despise
/ war.
| Zimmerman, once foreign minister to
| Germany, told me that when he was
consul in China, he was presented to a
! powerful mandarin, a fine looking man
! of soldiery bearing. Zimmerman, wish
/ ing to hatter the mandarin, said to the
| Interpreter: Tell him what 4 fine look
| ing man he is. Tell him he looks like
| soldier The interpreter replied: THAT
would be an insult-soldiers are looked
! down upon"
JAPAN LIKENED TO
PRUSSIA BEFORE 1914.
Japan, on the other hand, with its
| fighting arstocracy, the fine sense of
personal honor Of its people its military
ambitions, is somewhat like the Prussia
of before 1914.
To understand the problems Of the Far
East we must first of all grasp this es
sentiaI difference between China and
Japan.
In bodily construction there is not
much difference between the individuals
Of the two peoples but the great Jap
anese general who committed suicide on
the day Of the emperor's funeral in order
thereby to manifest his admiration for
his dead emperor, cannot be said to have
looked at life from the same viewpoint
as an AnglO-SaxOn or Chinese.
China suffered the penalty of the nom
prepared and of the pacifist. Her ports
were seized her country divided into
spheres Of influence, her people forced
/ by war to poison theselyes with opium
for the benefit Of greedy foreigners. The
battle flags Of all the powerful nations
represented at this conference, including
our own, have waved before the gates of
her capital and her palaces have been
looted by the soldiers OF civilized Europe.
PERRY OPENS WAY FOR
JAPAN'S DEVELOPMENT.
The American admiral, Perry, opened
Japan to the world in 1853. Hostility
to foreigners eliminated in 1862 when an
Englishman named Richardson, who had
ridden into a Japanese procession, was
killed. The British demanded the sur
render Of the assassin and an indemnity.
This, not forthcoming. a British feet
destroyed japanese ships and Kagoshimi
City
! 1t was then that the feudal military
rulers Of Japan. seeing the inferiority of
their military forces when opposed to
those Of Europe commenced that imita-
ton of European and American armies
and navies. and mechanical and bust
ness life which has made the Japan of
today a powerful nation. But under
meath, the soul Of Japan has remained
much rs before.-Copyrigh 1921, by In
ternational News Service