The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-11-09

tural resources beyond conception
she is ripe fruit and good picking for
territory-grabbing, or concession
hungry neighbors.
Z.
Siberia, too, rich IN the natural
resources which can supply the raw
products so essential to an industrial
nation, is an open invitation to for
eign exploitation.
For twenty-one years the United
States has stood by her own policy Of
the "open door, or Hay doctrine,
meaning Asia should not be swallow
ed by any nation or group OF nations,
but should retain her independence,
as is, and should keep her door open
to the commerce of all countries alike
and without favoritism.
8.
Though every great power endorsed
the Hay doctrine when first promul-
gated in 1900, some of them have ut
terly failed to live up to it's practice.
10.
Japan, since 1914, especially, has
been conspicuous for her failure, not
)rly to respect her pledge regarding
he "open door," but to live up, to the
.erms of her treaty guaranteeing the
integrity of China with Great Britain
as well.
Japan took over all German rights
in Shantung and has consistently
,roadened them since 1914, refusing
give them back to China, despite
he fact that China, too, helped fight
Germany. Japan will leave ShaHtune
only on condition.
II.
Japan is in Manchuria where hen
,oncessiors are many and where She
,wns outright the South Manchmian
Railway. Though in Chinese terri-
tory, China can use this railway only
by consent of Japan
13.
Japan is in Siberia and is pushing
IN into Mongolia; she is in posses
sion of the northern half of the is
land of Saghalien, belonging to Rus
STA; her troops control the whole
length of the Chinese Eastern Rail
way and are the law of Vladivostok;
she is in Fukien province, at Port
Arthur, in the Liaotung peninsula
and in Korea annexed in 1910 after
successful wars with China and Rus
STA.
zap, tiny island in the Pacific,
is the strategic center of communi-
cations between the United States ard
the Far East Japan claims man
late over it by virtue Of a ruling of
he Supreme Council sitting at Paris
Is.
To many Of these Japanese adven-
lures the United States is opposed,
particularly those which violate the
doctrine Of the "open door
16.
Great Britain and particularly the
British overseas dominions-Canada, /
Australia, New Zealand and South
Africa-are fearful lest their Interests
in the Pacific be infringed upon, and
with America, see many things eye to
eye.
II.
BritonS in the Far East wish to see |
the Anglo-Japanese alliance denounc- |
ed in favor of a more general agree /
ment regarding the Far East and to
which the United States would be an |
party.
Is.
They claim Japan has not kept her /
word with regard to the "open door, /
or with Great Britain with regard to /
the alliance. They fear Japau's secret /
in Asia and what she might
do in India.
10.
A Pacific conference, British Dom
inions hope, will serve to clear up the
atmosphere of suspicion in the Orient
and pave the way for the Pronunciation
Of an outworn and unpopular alliance
in favor of new understandings
20.
II Is hoped that by all the great
powers putting their cards face up on
the conference table at Washington,
and everybody playing square with Z
each other and with Asia. the causes
IF friction between at least the three
naval powers can be remot-
ed to the extent that partial disarma-
neHt, or limitation Of armament, viii
result
p.
VIII the conference succeed Ii
wili if the powers give helpless Asia
a square deal and the Hay doctrine is
iualiy put across in a way that viii
prove effective
p
If the conference does nothing else.
.t wiz show everybody how the land 4.
lies. The people Of the world will 4