The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-16
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we would give such 10 guarantee p
No, for this would ho tautamouut
TO rowling In the Pacific precisely
these guarantees which President
Wilson through the league uf nations
extended 90 tho smaller states OF
Europe. and Il would also amount
to reviylng the Anglo. French .
American treaty of Insurance Tor
France.
Conference Gets Cold shoulder.
Officials In Washington remain
surprised and n bit hurt OVC the
growing GOODNESS " Europe TO-
ward u ~CUnfcrcuN, but Why
should they bc surprised In
point Of fact We = striking Ill.
rNtly at the peace and security of
many countries In raising the Pa.
CifiC question In a conference
which they must attend and IN
which their Representatives will
hnVc 10 take IA position. II they
Oppose US and support Japan,
vera grave cyil C-onSsru"t1ss may
follow. Not, Ia bc sure. war or
anything like war. hut financial
hostility which would bc disas-
trous. hut Il they support us
against Japan. then they Hrc la Tor
trouble with Japan, trouble of the
most scrinus aud fur reaching
character.
Moreover, it would be nothing
short Of criminal TO close our eyes
10 the moral obligation we are uu-
dertaking In the cast ot China.
Twice we have almost literally be
trayed China, surrendered her to
japanese aggression. once iu the
case OF the Lansing fshil agreement.
again In the matter OF the ShantuuT
settlement. Stlll replying upon uur
underlying loyalty TO the principles
We have so often proclaimed The
Chinese are today opposing Japan
csc demands n We abandon them
again, thcu there IS AN end Of
Chinese reliance upon Us and per-
haps sof Chinese resistance for a
long time,
A Difficult Position.
But this duty 10 China goes DO.
yond the solemn signature Of docu-
ments reaffirming devotion Of the
principles of the open door and
OF equal opportunity We have
either got 20 insure those thingF in
fact or abandon our prcteutiuns "a
maintaining them. We must in fact
assume the terribly difficult post
ton Of moral guardianship Of China
or wash our hands Of the whol,
Chinese affair. And in this con.
noction IL is worth remembered that
when John Hay uttered the omen
door" doctrine h" was not thiukiua
of Japan but Of Germany and Rus.
STA, France and Britain, Too great
fidelity 90 Chinese integrity, too
rigid application Of tho principle re-
tro%actiyely. would certainly bring us
into pAl1iainn with IlFtfnln and
France, as well as Japan.
As I have said everything that
cmCrcrs from official quarters in
Washington, 50 far rs the press
views CORRECTLY mirror thcrc In
timations, suggests that we mean
90 stand for the principal of the
open Door" and the policy uf
equal opportunity and stand by
them. But this means no mOrr
and no less than turning Japan
out OF China. u Of the mainland
of Asia altogether, restricting her
future. ~ the Germans felt Britain
restricted TcutOniC future In the
critical years before the world war.
And " this were not bad enough
the situation Is complicated by thu
moral element represented by th'
Japanese exclusion policy practiceC
by the Pacific states. Japanese re
sentiment over this rs something fal
more acute than German resentment
Of British policy before the world
war. 1t constitutes an INJURY
| which. from the point Of view Of d
proud and powerful people has No
possible palliatiOn. And Il IL The
nation which places a stigma upon
the whole race, which closes its ter.
ritories TO japanese immigration a'
| no country British or otherwise
closed it's doors TO German immipra,
tiou, which undertakes now to close
the Asiatic venue of Japanese OK.
pansion.
a European solution OF the arm.
culties presented by our polio,