Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-12-05
COLOR LINE MAY
PLAY LARGE PART
At CONFERENCE
Self-Preservation Of White
Peoples Seems to be Assum-
ing Form.
BROUGHT FORWARD
BY CH|NA'S STAND
And by Japan's Reluctance to
Give Up Hold on Celestial
Empire.
WHAT AMERICA MAY DO
ny Charles Brewer Farmer, Editor
- n A.
WHAT AMERICA MAY DO
ny Charles Brewer Farmer, Editor
of Every Evening.


tion of white peoples may play an i'm
portant part in determining what con
cessions the Powers may make tol
China at the present Conference on /
Pacific and Far Eastern Questions.
China wants economic and political
autonomy, and her Pekingese spolses-
men claim that the ancient land can
do without tho benevolently despotic
hand Of Japan. To. every claim that
China is making at the Conference
Japan is advancing what amounts al
most TO a Counter-claim, and in some
cases is giving reasons which are not
bad for her desires.
Other statements OF Japan are al
most ludicrous to western eyes. Wit
ness Chinas demands for tho imme-
date remova, Of all foreign troops
especially the Japanese--from Man
churia- Although the Admiral Baron
Kato has admitted that Manchuria is
Chinese territory, yet huge japanese
garrison is maintained there. Japan
tells China that nothing would please
her more than the removal Of her
forces, but-many japanese criminals
go into Manchuria. and endanger the
lives of Cinnamon. The japanese
forces catch those bad men. send them
back to Japan. and thus protect the
peaceful Chinese. Surely. China would
rot want 70 cope with those, bad
dangerous Jap criminals.
One Of the underlying truths re-
garding the Chinese problem is that
Japan must have room in which to
spread her rapidly propagating folk.
Japan proper contains go persons to
the square mile, in a land that is es-
s@nually an agricultural one. One
might retort that England has over
700 persons to the square mile, but
one should not forget that England is
now a manufacturing country, and
that one-third Of her land is cultivated.
while only one sixth Of Japan can be
utilized in the same manner.
China, across the way, has an aver
age population of only 10 to the square
mile. And China is very near to Japan.
Not nearly so far away as the western
coasts of the United States and Cana
Ola. Japan has got to spread out some
wherein the Philippines. California,
western Canada-or China. Austral-
asia has already protected herself by
the passage of immigration laws which
could hardly be improved upon.
The United States will not tolerate
the immigration of Japanese here in
large quantities. Nor will Canada. To
be very plain-spoken, they are objec-
tionable from the racial point Of view.
for they never aSsimilate with other
races. And Just mention the word
Japanese" to a labor leader. OF for
that matter. to the farmers of. Califor-
MIA or those Of the Delmarvia penin-
sula, and watch for an explosion. It
was only few months ago that the
legislators of Delaware were discuss
ing the theatened danger OF Japanese
entering the orchards Of lower Della
ware
The Chinese may abhor the Japan
ese worse than those elements in
American and Canadian life which
would come into contact with them in
case of heavy immigration. But the
Chinese are closer. racially, to the
japanese than the white peoples
China might not suffer as great in
convenience as nations of the western
world. Japan says that she must
spread out somewhere II the honora-
tie gentlemen Of the occident viii not
permit. then can there be strenuous
objection if she steps over into China
and colonies a bit%
China, while not exactly being the
dumb OK of this conference. is certain
ly the patient being operated upon
Watch and see what Japan does to
her-with the permission of the other
learned diplomatic surgeons gathered
about the table