The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-11-16
Far East Settlement
 Americas Problem
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 Some of the lessons which Japan has been taught by the Western pow CTS must be disavowed. In this con- nection it is necessary to go into a brief historical review of the rela- tions between the West and the East, how they have expanded and the re- suits that have accrued from them.
 When Balboa in 1513 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 well a sea of troubles and problems.
 Bringing these shores of the wide Pacific on the east, lie the great pro- b1ems of China and Japan and while these old empires slept their hermit sleep the rowing Anglo-Saxons crept in and peopled the continent of Aus tralia and fertile New Zealand and appropriated the romantic, magic islands of the South Seas.
 Gold discovered in California brought the Anglo-Saxons to the Pa cific coast of the United States and a slower settlement brought them to the wesern coast of Canada.
 And still the hermit empires slept their ages long sleep-both Mongo- Han, both civilizations. but differing in their outlook on life.
 China is a vast aggregation of peo- pies devoted to work, to business, as
 
 where to engage in business success fully brought, as with us, honor, not disgrace. A country where an ancient philosophy had taught even the mass of people to despise war.
 Zimmerman once foreign minister of Germany told me that when he was a consul in China he was present. ed to a powerful mandarin fine looking 1s man of soldierly bearing: mandarin said to the interpreter: ''Tell him what a fine Joking man he is- Tell him he looks like soldi
 The interpreter said: 'I cannot tell him that-it would be an insult soldiers are looked down upon"
 Japan on the other hand, with it's fighting aristocracy, the fine sense of personal honor of it's people. it's mii tary ambitions. is somewhat like the Pruia of before 1914
 To understand the problems of the Far East we must first of all grasp this essential difference between China and Japan.
 In bodily construction there is not much difference between the indi- viduals of the two peoples, but the great Japanese general who commit ted suicide on the day of his emper- fest his admiration for his dead em- peror, cannot be said to have looked at life from the same viewpoint as an Ang1o-Saxon or Chinese.
 tnInd SuHeFeQ Cne penalty or the non-prepared and of the pacifist- her ports were seized, her country di- vided into spheres of influence-her people forced by war to poison them selves with opium for the benefit of greedy foreigners. The battlefags of all the powerufu1 nations-represent ed at this conference, including our own, have waved before the gates of her capital and her palaces have been footed by the soldiers of civilized 
 The American Admiral Perry open- ed Japan to the world in 1853. Hos tility to foreigners eliminated in 1862 when an Englishman named Rich ardson who had ridden into a Japan ese procession, was killed. The Brit ish demanded the surrender of the assassain and an indemnity. This not forthcoming, a British fleet destroyed Japanese ships and Kagoshimi city.
 It was then that the feuda1 military rulers of Japan seeing the inferfority of their own military forces when op- posed to those of Europe, commenced that imitation of European and Amer ican armies and navies and mechan- ica1 and business life which has made the Japan of today a powerful nation. But underneath the soul of Japan has remained as before.