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New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Hara Policies Will Live in
Spite of His Assassination
Liberalism Declared To Be Too Firmly Rooted ir
Japan Now for Militarists or Bureau
Gratis to Gain Power

are that, in spite Of the great loss suf-
fered by the sudden death of its great
leader, the present ministry will con-
tinue to stay with either Marquis
Saionj, the former leader Of the Seiyu
Kai, or men like Admiral Kata, now at
Washington as chief delegate to the
conference; Count Yamamoto, ex-Pre-
mier; Viscount Maxine, minister of the
Imperial Household, and Barren Saito
governor general of Corea, all persona
grata with the Seiyn Kai, as its head
and Japan's policy, domestic and for
eign, will undergo little or no change
Liberalism is now too firmly rooted in
Japan to suffer by the loss Of one Of its
many leaders.
Hara was the only commoner Pre-.
mier in the long line of titled heads
of the Cabinet. This Cabinet succeed
ed in 1918 bureaucratic Cabinet un-
der the late Count Terauchi, who was
War Minister during the Russo-Japan-
ese War and later Governor General OF
Corea for several years. The Ter
auchi Cabinet had come into exist
ence two years before, and soon after
it's organizations dissolved the House
of Representatives.
In the fall of 1918 there was great
rise in the price of commodities, par
ticularly in that of rice. the staple
food Of the Japanese masses. This
intensified the unpopularity Of the
Terauchi Cabinet, the people at large
ascribing, rightly or not, the difficulty
of living caused by soaring prices to
its failure to regulate them. A food
riot occurred in an obscure fishing
village in q northern district Of Japan,
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
US. migration Bill Is Topic
OF Debate in Italian Villages
Fishermen in Little Southern Towns Argue Details
Of Measure Nightly; Many Seek to Return
< TO Relations in America

earned nest egg, that they grow pen
sive. In one village alone, Possitano,
all the able-bodied men emigrated, re-
turning after seven months to their
wives and families, who, in the mean
time, had cultivated their own piece of
land. 1t was with the money from the
work in the United States that they
could buy the land, in the first place,
and keep their families going.
The women checrfully adapted them
selves to the absence of their hus-
bands, as, on the return, there was al
ways a nice sum Of money to put by
forAimproving the land. Lack of emf
grafton to these people means misery,
as they cannot find enough lucrative
work for all, as the villages depend en-
tirely on fishing as trade, except, of
course, village like Amalfi, which has
paper mills up in the beautiful valley
behind the town. But many of the
mills are in the hands Of families who
employ only their own sons and daugh-
ters and keep the business of making
and selling in their own hands.
Besides this, for more than fifty
years emigration Of some sort has been
the rule, so that it is very hard now to
change the custom Of dozen villages.
Z Some have turned their faces toward
Germany and France, but even there the
number Of immigrants needed is limited.
But Germany and France can never
take the place Of what they call Goods
Country" In the minds Of many Of
these returned emigrants the main ad-
vantage Of living % the United States
,is-- the efficiency pof the Board or
Health, whose power to force landlords
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

fact, OF course, it would be no:smpre
than deliberate and indefensible de-
ceiving Of the, peoples Of ALI countries
and Of the American people beyond all
others. We should still have to face
the dangers Of war with Japan over
China, for the danger has its origin
not primarily in the present strength
or temper Of Japan, ;but.in the present
weakness and corruption of China. In
the last analysis, unless China is set
ON her feet and held there for time,
at least, it will do no good. solemnly to
draw a line at the Great Wall and
with equal gravity to join with Japan
and Britain in signing q self-denyipg
ordinance.
The real test Of statesman anship in
Washington, it seems to me, is going to
be had when it comes to finding q way
in which ths United States and Great
Britain, having successfully persuaded
Japan to resign her hopes within the
Great Wall, can address themselves to
the remaining task Of finding way to
bring about even little financial and
political order in China. And right
here is coming the real trouble, when
the work OF the conference passes to
the Senate for review, assuming that
some agreement is reached. Jul.
Let us face the thing squarely. We
are going to be entangled. We can't
have the thing we want in the Far
East without undertaking not only
risks but responsibilities. We are go
ing to face in the Far East precisely the
shadow which SO gravely disturbed us
at Paris. To get a League Of Nations,
Mr.. Wilson had to undertake certain
obligations in Europe to get. China
in which there can be an open door and
about which there can. be q question OF
integrity, we have got TO do, more than
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

policy of refraining from military, po-
litical or economic aggrandizement
within that newly defined area, until
the United States has recognized that
1t must associate itself with the Brit
ish financially, if not politically. in the
rehabilitation of the Chinese unit as
defined, everything else is Of minor i'm
portance.
Believes Japan Will Accept
Great Wall as Frontier
Now, is such an agreement possible
I have said, and I repeat, that believe
Japan will accept the Great Wall
frontier for China. Ny judgment is
that British influence will press Japan
that far and that British influence
will not be exerted further, because
British craftsmanship recognizes that
this is the extreme limit Of possibility.
The first and perhaps the greatest con-
cession Mr.. Hughes will have to make
is right here. But if he declines to
concede, then in my judgment the con-
ference will fail, and fail with appal-
ling consequences for all concerned.
Accepting the agreement on geogra-
ply as assured, it does not seem to me
that there can be much trouble in ar
irving at self-denying ordinance
which even the United States Senate
will indorse, for the United States Sen
ate, even in it's present mood, would
hardly take exception to statement
that the United States had no terri
torial or political aspirations on Chin
ese territory nor any economic aspira-
tions which it sought to translate into
special privileges for its own citizens
or interests.
If the conference could stop here and
address itself to the question Of the
limitation of armament, on >paper il
would seem to be success. But ir
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Extent of China for Official
Purposes Must Be Agreed

What for the purposes of the appli-
cation Of the principles of the open
door and the integrity of China, is
China, itself? Here is the whole crux
of the matter. There must be a
China, something less than that repre-
sented upon the maps vaguely as lying
between Siberia and French Indo-
China, something which the United
States will recognize as the Chinese
fact for purposes of discussion. There
must be an area which Japan will con-
cede is outside the regions in which
she has already established an accom-
plished fact of political and economic
interest.
II one could suppose, for example,
that the United States and Japan could
agree that for the purposes Of dis
custom China should constitute that
part Of the geographical term which
lies inside che Great Wall, then the
gain would be enormous. This would
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

to whitewash dirty and ill-kept houses
seems nothing short of miracle, as in
these villages the Board Of Health's
control over the proprietors has never
been heard of.
Not only have the workingmen been
damaged by the new law, but many
who returned few years ago for busi-
ness reasons or inconsistencies are now
compelled to remain in Italy.
In Atrani, near Amalfi, there is a
hearty old man Of seventy years, Sor
Vicenzo, whose sons and daughters
live in the United States. He and his
CHEEKY, energetic wife, Sora Maria, re-
turned to Italy two years ago for busi-
ness reasons, concerning q pension
which he drew for his participation in
the Battle Of Lissa, forty-four years
ago. The men Of chat day were never
given a pension, though they fought
valiantly against the Austrians. Two
years ago Sor Vicenzo was notified
that the pension would be paid to him
on certain date, but he and his wife
must present himself at certain Office.
Naturally both he and his wife did not
imagine that by coming over they
would have to remain in Italy forever.
"Besides," says the old man, 1--WE have
to pay taxes on everything and that
runs away with the small income
have. Think Of luxury tax on bot
tie of wine, in our own wine growing
country"
"What annoys me is chat there isn't
the Board of Health to force our land
lord to whitewash our house." said his
wife. Shouldn't we really" she con-
tinued, shave the right to return to
our own sons and daughters who are
naturalizcd citizens and buyers Of Lib
erty bonds!" Their friends tell them
that the new law does not exclude
them, but still they are waiting for the
necessary permit to return to New
Haven, Conn, where their grown-up
children are awaiting them. Their one
consolation is that they have = tiny
fiat and can manage TO make ends meet,
though living has increased.
| But Sor Vicsnzo isn't the only one
who has relatives in the United
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

States. Aualf alone, with IT'S 1000 in-
habitants, has 1000 of them residents
in various parts Of America. Many OF
them have never returned, but when
ever they need some expert workmen
they send home for them to come ovcr.
At least they did in the old days, bus
now permits and visas must be OBJ
tanned and sometimes months pass bes
fore those called can get away.
In the old days it was quite differents
as steamship companies were their OWL
masters and could take on temporary
hands for every passage. Whenever.
any one from these villages wanted
to go to America he applied at the
office in the village of a steamship
company and signed on as a steward
or deckhand, Or even stoker. When he
reached the United States he signed
off and was free to journey to the
town where job was awaiting him.
Now, even when man gets his viss
and permit he must pay his full steer
age fare, as the Federation Of Seamen
prevents the companies frons taking
on temporary hands or non-membera
of the union. The fares are very high
now, not only on arrival, but while
waiting for the ship to leave. In come
ports there is the fumigation and
quarantine.
With all these drawbacks the fisheg-..
men are keen on cmigrating. Life in
Italy is now very expensive for thosa
who DO not benefit by high foreign
exchange. Emigration means--and al
ways has meant-prosperity TO the peo-
pie, the villages and the communes.
The men from these, districts around
Naples and Salerno are born workers.
The inertia and hatred of work which
seemed to affect workers in other dis
tricts are unknown here. They are de-
voted to their families and to their
trade. Drunkenness is rarely ever SEGA,
in any village along the coast. They
work so hard during the day that at
night they roll of to sleep. Even III.
fishermen here find life struggle, AZ
| fish seems scare SINCE the war; work.
ing on a share systSm, as is the Gus.
! tom, is . bit precautions.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
Paris Police Determined
To Eliminate the Apache

PARIS, Oct. 27.-The Paris police
and judicial authorities are determined
that the Apache will not come back
into his own.
Yevette Miffone, long known to the
Paris police as one Of the most dangerous
female Apaches Of Paris, has just been
sentenced to fifteen years in prison at
hard labor. She led her gang Of young
Apaches in daring jewelry store rob-
berry. Albert Teller, sixteen-year-
old boy, member of Yeyette's gang,
was sentenced to life imprisonment at
hard labor.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

o few hundred fishermen's wives TAX
ing the leading part in the disturbance.
1t was soon put down, but it proved
the first direct expression of the
pent-up dissatisfaction of the masses
with the powers that be.
First Party Cabinet
Organized in Japan
In brief time the anti-government
movement spread throughout the coun-
try, rioting breaking out in many cities
and towns, the disturbances eventually
taking on such. dimensions as to re-
quire the help of the military to re-
store peace and order. In face Of this
failure the Terauchi Cabinet had but
to resign en- bloc in October, 1918, and
give place to Takashi Hara and his
|licutenants to form new Ministry.
1t was under such circumstances
that Hara and his party came into
power and the first party Cabinet ever
organized in Japan saw light. The
new government, however, was by no
means baby born with silver spoon
in its mouth. In the first place, for
the reason that the Seiyu Kai had
supported the Terauchi Cabinet, the
new government was not much trusted
by the people at large. Secondly, be-
ing the first commoner to occupy tn.
highest post in the government, Hara
lacked the prestige which his prede
cessors enjoyed with the nation, and
much doubt was expressed whether he
could prove himself equal to the grave
task he had been called upon to take
up. Thirdly, though he commanded
an absolute majority in the House Of
Representatives, he had no powerful
backing in the House of Peers, and it
was not impossible that he would meet
with great obstruction in carrying on
his work from that quarter.
Hara Government Had
Hard Road to Travel
In short, IL was not royal road
but thorny path that lay before
Hara and his government to traverse.
In addition, the new government had to
deal with many difficult prSDiems, do
mestic and Foreign, awaiting solution.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
By Midori komatsu

special correspondent of the "Chugai
Shogyo." formerly II, diplomatic
scrrice and late Director of For
etgn Affairs in Corcnn Adn,inis-
tration.
WASHINGTON, Nov. II.
n 0W will the death Of Premier
EH Hara affect the political
situation? Will it lead to
the downfall Of the present
sosernment? Will the opposition or
l'litarists and bureaucrats come into
p0Wer7 Certain misgivings appear to
Prevail among the American public
'aAs hara's tragic death may give op-
Sofsunlties for militarists and bureau
s's.s to recover their lost ground and
mat Japan will revert to her old i'm
0eHalistic policy.
undoubtedly they will do everything
svsSipie to reassert themselves, but it
not likely that they will ever sue
ssec IN accomplishing their aim. The
Jason is that they have few followers
sae Legislature, and the people at
ng "rge Of Japan, particularly the intel
'Sensia and the press, are heartily
"ck OF their schemes and actions.
As Tor the opposition, led by Wis
v sysns Aato, they are too weak to be
ss'e to oust the present government and
Yep into its place. In the Lower House
sas sasy havc only 109 seats, as against
- commanded by the Ministerial
q these circumstances the chances
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
By Frank II. Simonds

WASHINGTON, November IL.
- yITH the opening of the
Nj Washington conference we
w have passed from tho time
Of speculation as to possible
..,;ia and dangers to the hour when
m necessary to examine the pros
..sts Of actual achievement. The
,.nrcrs, in fact, the one great danger,
!. natent; the policy of the United
oates amounts to an invasion of field
!, which Japan has felt herself para
.ount and must in any event result
n the subtraction Of advantages which
u, Japanese have come to regard as
.se man in the street thinks of the
nancy he has deposited in his saw
ingy bank.
The frss question that has to be
,sked. then, when one comes to the
appraisal Of the prospects for achieve
nant, must necessarily be: SIS Japan
,repared to make concessions, large
.oneessions. Is she within limits, at
least, ready to resign advantages in
srder to avoid an actual collision with
he United States, preceded by hope
less isolation in the world?"
TO this the answer is Enthusiastically
ia the affirmative. Japan has already
made impressive sacrifices. The
whole temper, spirit, tone of the Jap
aness representatives is in marked
contrast to that tone which was dis
coverable in Paris. Japan is frankly
apprehensive; she does not want war
with, the United States. She does not
want to be thrown back into Asia,
separated from all the other great ma
lions Of the world, which would in
syitably be the consequence of an ac-
tual rupture with the United States
over any question which might be dis
posed of by reasonable concession on
her part
Accepting the fact that Japan
comes in a conciliatory spirit, what,
then, is possible? First of all, the
point of departure, the beginning OF
everything must be definition of
terms. America has elected to go to
the conference proclaiming two ab-
stract principles-"the integrity Of
China and the open door," Both Of
them mean much in vague, nebul-
GUS fashion, but neither means any
thing concretely until it is defined.
Indeed, the first definition must be as
to China.
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13
From g. .Speoiat JCorrsspords,st

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- ITALIANS ins the South y may, in
some cases, care little for heavy
II, reading, but they. know every
thing about the percentage bill,
passed in the. United States Congress.
In all the fishing villages between
Naples and Salerno the one topic al
ways under Sdiscussion.is, that Of emil
grafton. They are. never weary Of
arguing about the various details and
drawbacks. Of the new law. In the
evenings when the bosts are pulled up
high on to the beach and the, men and
women folk, are sitting on the belve-
dere. or the .parapet, they talk of moth
ing else but the problems Of cniigra-
tion and the possibility Of getting to
the promised land. They know the re-
strictions, and those unfit according
to the new law resignedly admit that
they must be satisfied with Italy -un-
til new regulations comesin. y
One and all agree that, though the
new law isyhard on them, the Ameri-
can authorities have a. perfect right
to protect their own workers and
choose the kind Of cmigrantss they
want. All this they discuss calmly
and, In = way, clearly.
Comparison with Pre-War
Conditions Causes Diseontent
1t is only when they think Of pre-
war days, when emigration was easy
and the men left the villages for a
seven months residence in the.U
States and returned homesygEh aAhatd-
New-York tribune., 1921-11-13

WASf41NGTUNs November II.
- yITH the opening of the
"j Washington conference we
" have passed from the time
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