The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-10-30

are wholly willing that Japan
should have equally advantageous
opportunity In China and the Far
East with our own merchants.
We are honestly and truly pacific
In our purposes and from our own
point OF view cnlnCntiy reason
able. All VIC desire Is that Japan
should bc equally reasonable.
But this obviously involves the
major assumption thut what
seems Enthusiastically reasonable
for us will seem equally reason
able to the japanese.
That was the whole trouble
with the AnglO-GCrman situation,
IL viii be- the chief difficulty with
America n Japanese profile
What We are undertaking To do I'm
the Pacific is precisely what
Britain undertook to do In the
Atlantic and the North Sea. But
for British Intervention Germany
could have disposed of French
rights and aspirations I'm Morocco
without difficulty. CaSablana,
new rising MS the greatest
African CapOrt from the Straits
OF Gibraltar to Cape Town would
have become u German port ana
colony. IL was the British veto
which destroyed the German as
plrntiOn.
Let US concede that Britain was
forced To issue veto In order to
protect her own safety. n German
navy base watching the Atlantic and
Mediterranean trade routes OF
britain would have been menace
graver Than anything Britain had
known since she broke French sea-
power and colonial empire IN the
eighteenth century. But the fact
remains that a declaration issued
from the platform OF Guiidhau in
London demolished German hopes
expectations at least in the Ger
man mind, rights. And t. issue
such declarations II is essential that
he country speaking shall have
the power to enforce It's will. This
Britain failed to have. II con-
tinued TO lock German expansion
hut It neglected TO prepare for the
inevitable German thrust, challenge
attack.
Japan likes Germany.
Japan, AS everyone sees, in much
the German position. She is even
stronger by comparison with all
other Asiatic powers combined than
Germany was with respect OF her
continental neigh bors. Moreover
she has British alliance which
has served her purpose and en-
abled her 10 march toward the fun
realization Of her own aspirations,
which are quite like these Of Ger
many before the world war In
deed the world war by paralyziug
all western powers, save the United
states, seemed to give Japan free
hand 10 complete her domination
Of the far east. Yet at the NOM
ent when the realization seemed IN
siEht, there comes from the other
side OF the Pacific warning voice
which undertakes to restrain Jap
anese action.
In undertaking 10 establish or
rather 10 rc-cstabliSh the integrity
of China we are not merely seek
ing 10 CirCumscTlhc Japanesc
future, We are literally undertake
ing 10 undermine her present.
We are going 10 Asia and Chal-
longing what Is for the Japancsc ~
rs sacred n doctrine as that which
In our own hemisphere bears the
name Of Monroe. We are assCT.-
ing the right to restrict Japanese
expansion and 10 compel Japan
90 Rcccpt our view OF Japanese
ntNpShltltfS ana rights,
THIS II what the Briton did To
the German. And never was the
Briton able To spc the cauSa of
the German fury nc this coursc.
Always the BritOn insisted, and we
echo the same language. that
what he advocated was the
reasonable and sensible course
Indeed the German fury left the
Brlton actually aStoundcd. He
could not comprehend the passion
which hts own calm assertion
of authority had evoked. Even
to this day the Engiishmcn does
not understand nor Is there any
prospect that Americans win
understand the profound emotion
which the call 90 the Washington
conference has aroused In Japan,
II Is true that Japan mas cX-
panded at the expense Of China and
Hussia, II is true that in China
and elsewhere Japan pursues
policy which threatens the liberties
OF China, that her treatment Of the
native populations Of Korea is an
offense against current notions OF
right and justice. 1, is true that
Japan is fomenting dlscord in
China that she may expand her
own control. Her methods are evil
and her objectlyes threaten the lib
critics OF millions OF people,
Japs Seek Monopoly.
II is equally true that Japanese
lisation OF the far eastern markets