The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-11-17

tine IOTCe8 IkhulLatiOh INV -
newal in China struggle against Pc
culiar difficulties and interferences
quite outside the happier experiences
Of France and America. In particn-
lar, they struggle against an intoler-
able and paralyzing amount OF for
eign interference.
The brilliant series Of ad'
and accidents by which q London
trading company added the Empire
Of Great Mogul az q picturesque but
incongruously big jewel to the British
crown set an extraordinarily bad prece-
dent in Asiatic affairs. 1t obsessed
European political thought with the
possible dream of carving up all Asia
into similar domains.
The Mogul's empire was itself an
empire OF. conquest In land saturated
by ideas of caste. and this gave all
these European adventures the atti-
tude of high caste men benevolently
consuming inferior races.
In that spirit, Europe-with japan
coming In presently as a hopeful stu.
dent of European methods-had been
trying to cook, carve up and fight for
the portions of China for nearly cen
fury, treating these wonderful people
as an inferior race. The very worst
that can be said about Japan with re-
gard to China lis that she has been too
vigorously. European.
Consider America
Consider how 1t would have been
with the United States in the years OF
discord that led up to the civil war II
these difficulties had been complicated
by three such embarrassments as
A. faral0noro
except now the Germans and Aus
TRANS, are outside the reach of the
native courts, that their disputes with
Chinese 60 before special foreign
courts. that they are specially favored
in regard to property and shipping;
secondly, that the Chinese govern
ment In restricted from raising rev.
enue by any tariff above a flat rate Of
per cent in their interior dues upon
foreign Out not Chinese) trade. 90
that they are in fact unable to raise
enough revenue to maintain an eff
cient government. and thirdly that
nearly all Chinese railways-and as
every American knows, transport 10
the very life Of a modern State-are in
the grip of this foreign country or
that
These are the open and manifest in
VI tnc biNudtiohs but
hind these more open aspects. there il
a vast tangle Of Intervention between
Cinnamon and Chinese affairs.
schemes for further exploitation.
financial entanglements. vast conces-
sion plans and projects for spheres
If influence" for this aggressive for
eign nation or that.
Competing Powers.
At. <o~oto~vx L. H,,or.~ L. 81 -
influence of one foreign power pur-
suing a single and consistent policy.
but number of competing powers. all
ends and pulling things this
way and that. How could any coun-
try reconstruct itself while II was en-
tangled In such net Of Interference?
No people on earth could do such a
thing.
The plain fact Is that IL China IL to
reconstruct herself. that net has to
be cut away. 1t IL not enough to
warn Japan out Of China or to say
open Door" for China. The Open
Door il good for the ventilation Of
that great apartment, but what il
also needed is a clearing out Of the
inside. These encum-
ORANGES are not primarily japanese.
Words Arc Forbidden.
The five great powers sit at a green
table in the form Of a horseshoe in the
and the four lesser powers
are at a straight table like the arma-
ture Of a horseshoe magnet. At the
left hand corner, next the Japanese.
are the three Chinese representatives.
I gather they will be allowed to say
"Shantung" at the conference in
moderation but not Tibet, nor Ton.
Quin nor the East China--or indeed
any-railway.
l doubt II either Mr.. Balfour or M.
BRAND will nerve himself to say these
words. But an irresponsible
journalist may write them.
II there il to be a real end to war
and disarmament. there has to be a
release of China to free Chinese con-
troll, and that means a self-denying
ordnance from ALL the great powers.
It will be an easy one for America
and Italy to accept, but 1t will be a
difficult sacrifice indeed for these two
hoary leaders in the breakup of
China. Great Britain and France.
Neither country has a bad heart, but
long ago in the East they acquired