The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1921-11-20


more rapidly in wealth in recent
years than any other part of the
land. They are converting the will
derness, raising such a crop Of soy
beans as no other part of the earth
has ever seen. We propose to stand
by our people. We cannot give Man
churia to Japan, nor can we give her
Mongolia. Here, too. our people are
good, patient, hardy settlers, peace
fully converting the wilderness
True there are great tracts still un-
touched. but remember that we have
surplus millions. and II is here that
we expect them to expand"
Why Statesmen Hold Heads.
What sets the serious to holding
their heads Is that they cannot find
a place to PUT Japan; that is, a
place to which she will not have to
fight her way.
But what are they doing in the
search OF the earth for something TO
give her? Is II anything in the
world but following the old formula
that has always gone with wars?I
Is war anything but a necessary
corollary to this way Of dealing with
the earth's surface? No nation or
group Of nations ever did or ever
VIII give away without its consent
the property OF another nation with
out sowing trouble for the future.
This giving away of other peo-
pies lands, this saying to a race
You can go here, but not there"
mas never succeeded. The world
long tried to shut the Jews into
u hue
penetration" has come to own
very respectable part of the worlds
wealth and to exercise throughout
the civilized world the power that
wealth embraces
One of the favorite devices of
great men in this particular ma
ton. sghast at the problem Of
slavery, was buying the negro, free
ing him, and transporting him
bodily into some then unsettled
part OF our own territory, New
Mexico. for example. Abraham Lin
coin himself tried to squirm out of
the awful logic OF the civil war by
erorts to persuade the North to
this scheme but neither North nor
south would have anything of IL.
even II II had been tried, II would
nave been no more a solution than
colonizing the negro in Africa. or
making a New Zion for the lew
IN the Holy, Land can ever be. No
national problem has ever yet been
hnaily settled on this earth by
arbitrary assignment to a territory.
What Young China Thinks.
Races must settle their own des-
TIMES. Japan will settle her rood
problem by war or by peace. and
whether it is to be by the one or
by the other depends largely upon
1oung China. What does Young
emma think about It? Not a hasty.
violent Young China expecting TO
convert its great masses in an bour
10 the Republican form Of govern
ment that came into being ten years
ago, out a moderate Young China.
mat has stayed at home, that knows
Its people, that is conscious of the
length of time, the patience the
sacrifices. the pain that adaptinp
the mind OF China TO a new order re-
quires.
What does this moderate Young
China think about the relation Of
Japan to itself?
He will make IL very clear to Won
that the republic has come to stay,
He will not attempt to minimize
It's difficulties. He will, however.
claim to you that whatever the sur
race Indications, the whole Yangtze
valley, which is the very heart of
the country, is committed to the
Republic and is cooperating with IL
He will give a hundred indIcat-
ions Of how from this great central
artery running east and west demo-
cratic influences are surely and
steadily spreading north and south.
He will show you how in the
Northern provinces the progress is
slowest, most difficult, because
here conservatism Is strongest,
most corrupt. He points out how
old China is concentrating in the
Pekin government all it's cunning.
its wisdom, its appeal to the old
thing. but he Will claim, and I'M
questionably believes, that young
China is going to be too much for
It He win go over the Southern
provinces with you and show You
how, in all of them except Canton,
there is a steadily improving CO.
operation with the Pekin govern
ment.
Moderate young China thinks
Canton is wrong in its haste. He
does not believe that the people
can assimilate new ideas as rapidly
as Canton claims. He believes that
it's hurry to make over great
country is one of the most dam
gerous factors in the nations pres
emit problem. To sustain. guard,
and develop the struggling Pekin
government is his program.
Like Brothers' Quarrel.
I'VE are quarreling, to be sure"
moderate young China tells you,
but II is our quarrel. We are like
brothers who have fallen to beat
ing one another-let a neighbor in
terfere and both turn on him.
China will turn on any nation or
nations that attempt to coerce her.
She alone can work out her diff
culties. She can work out best
her disputes with Japan, and If let
alone will do So"
"Of course" continues Young
China. Japan must resign control
OF Shantung and particularly of the
Shantung Railroad. Look at the
map and you will understand why.
II Japan controls the Shantung
Railroad she can at any moment
cut our main rail communication
between Picking and Shanghai, de-
stroy the main artery of our cir
culatory system. She can do more
than that. BY that control she will
be able to cut off the two arteries
across the inland. the Yellow River
and the Yangtze. No government
In its senses could permit that.
Nor can we consent to her po-
litical and military control either
In Shantung or Manchuria. But