The New York herald., 1921-11-09

that way subject race Is generally
| greater burden than help in time OF
war, and Japan is not looking for war
| Japan needs peace, is willing to pay
| price for peace. and believes that that
price will be not only morally but profit
| ably paid.
But from China we Japanese believe
| we have right to ask the privileges OF
| equal opportunity and the open dor. We
are not so richly endowed as America
| with wealth, territory and raw materials.
Here you have everything. You are self
| sustaining. But we are like the British
| Isles. We have a population approxi-
| mately Of sixty millions. with territory
! the size OF one Of your medium sized
States. Our supplies Of raw materials
| must come from abroad, and the mar
kets for the goods we manufacture must
| likewise be foreign countries.
but here is an interesting point: TO
the United States the materials and
trade of the Asiatic mainland are only
| q source Of added wealth, while to
Japan they are a necessity Of existence.
| We ask only an application Of the policy
| Of live and Let live.
| "In what condition, for instance,
would China be to-day without the en-
| terprise OF European and Japanese raii-
way builders and promoters of mining.
| of industries, OF agriculture and OF the
| steamship lines that visit her ports
and, IL / may go further. without the
foreign education that is being given
her sons, primarily by Great Britain.
Japan and the United States?
"Opportunity in Manchuria."
| 'sThe cause of Manchuria fs well
| worth considering. Before the railway
fines were constructed there and the
brigands along them brought under con-
/ troll, Manchuria was almost dcpopulat-
ed. II was In effect an extension of the
Mongolian Desert. with Mukden the
only place worthy to be dignified oy
| he name Of city. To-day the oppor-
| unities that are afforded peaceful
| armerv. the protection that Is given
| them, the railroads that take their crops
to the seaports, and the steamship lines
that convey them as far as Europe and
| America-these things create greater
| demand for labor than the Manchurian
population can supply. and hundreds OF
| Chinese cross annually from the PROV
inces of Shantung and Chill into South
| Manchuria to reap the harvests, thereby
earning In the temperate months of the
year sufficient wage to enable them to
return to China and provide for their
families throughout the winter.
Likewise do foreign countries, in-
Guiding Great Britain and the United
| States, profit by the development, no
matter who undertakes it. Americas
trade with japan to-day. both export
and import is far greater than that
with China, In spite OF the latter's gi-
gantic size and natural wealth. Part
4 Of the trade In cotton goods may nave
fpassed from the United States and
Great Britain to Japan. but the increase
| L.. %l,a nF haa much
more than compensated.
| I'm this connection let me state sorne
facts with regard to Shantung-which
Japan has been charged with taking
| from China. When 1t became part OF
Japan's obligation in the late war to
| drive Germany out of that area She as
sau,ud only part OF the rights which
| that country held In Shantung. The
\ leased territory of Kiaochow. which tie
Japanese captured from the German
garrison, contained not forty million
people (Which is the estimated popula-
ton OF the Province) but fifty or zix,y
! thousand. most OF whom had gathered
there to trade with the Germans and
| continued to reside there and trade with
| the Japanese. The leased territory cf
| Kiaochow covers about zoo square
miles. less than half of ] per cent. OK
the area of the province.
| "The Japanese soldiers that TOOK
Tsingtao have long evacuated the prov
| ince with the exception of two thousand
men, who remain to guard the railway
| line and the port. This Is a force less
in size than one-half of that which the
great Powers, including the United
States, maintain In the province Of Chilli
to protect the railway line from Pekin
| to the coast. and two guard the legations
at the capital.
| "Thus, It will be seen that the charge
of aggressions' on the part OF Japan
In Shantung has been presented In
| conspicuously unfair light.
"wnnts to Dispe1 Suspicion"
"It is the hope of Japan that the
| Washington conference will give her the
| opportunity to dispel whatever distrust
| and suspicion may exist in America
against her.
There is one point of warning I
should like to make In conclusion. Naval
limitation is the principal objective OF
! the conference. Naval limitation means
not only an agreement among the great
| Powers bus also tremendous example
| to others and an influence In favor of
! the settlement of all controversies by
peaceful processes I'm the future Neither
| by failure to keep this objective con-
| stantly in view nor by letting critics
and opponents subtly befog and OBJ
scure the main issues of the conference
should the chief delegates permit their
noble--and acknowledgements to be
defeated"