The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1921-02-23

American people are so Clreo OF war
that they shrink at the sight of a
uniform.
Japan knows American history.
After every war the American peo-
pie discard the force which they had
just found necessary. 1t knows that
the Aemrican big navy sentiment
does OF grow out of fear of Japan,
the enemy, but dislike of Great Bril-
tain. The English speaking whites
are doing just what Japan would |
have them do. They are getting into
a quarrel. Japan will get what it |
wants, an alliance with Great Bril-
tain. The United States will not get
what it ought to have, an under
standing with Great Britain.
A naval holiday, agreed to by the
United States and Great Britain and
agreed to by Japan or forced upon it,
would prevent both the alliance in
one direction and the fisunderstand-
ing in the other, twin mischiers for
the white world.
Japan sees that the United States
congress is muffling the whole point
of the holiday and is perversely con-
sidering on one side a disarmament
on go it alone plan, without an
agreement, and on the other the
building of a navy which Great Bri-
tain must regard as potentially dan
| gerous if not hostile.
At the exact moment when the con-
fused situation can be made darker
the Japanese diet throws this brick.
1t knows that the opponents of the
naval holiday will be strengthened by
it and that the proponents will feel
that their couse is lost. 1t thereby
/ obstructs if it does not stop the
agreement which Great Britain and
the United States might reach. Japan
could not stand out against that
agreement, but it may be able to
prevent it*being reached.
Thus Japan divides the forces
which compel it to keep the peace anc
I the reason this is dones is because
Japan wants to make war at the first
opportunity.
Japan probably belives that anoth
er successful war is necessary fol
its future. The United States is il
its way. American possessions ar
needed and the American influenc,
which constantly seeks to block ia
pan must be eliminated. The injuri
Gus Determinations against the ia
panese by Americans will furnish
cause of war any minute the Papan
csc want one and they will want en-
the moment they see that war vii
. be successful for them.
The United States is doing jus
what Japan wants it to do. 1t i
creating distrust and suspicion wher
E it ought to have understandings.
: is isolating itself. 1t is making enc
mics. 1t is throwing its military ms
. chimes on the junk pile. 1t is ricl
: weak, disliked, distrusted or hate
: and the world will be willing to Sc
: it take a licking, even from an AS
: attic.
. Then, you say, why not build
. great navy? Because we cannt
. build as rapidly as Europe and Asi
: can make alliances. 1t we insist @
: doing it we prove that we are tt
menace. The coalition is against u
+. If Japan insists, that proves Japan
: the menace and the coalition will |
+. against it. We cannot eutbuild tt
. British and Japanese alliance.
I. 1t is suicide for the white race
{. drive these two together. If navi'
Z remain at their present strength v
have an understanding with the Bri
: ish and Japan will come down o.
|. the high horse. 1t we pursue q
anti-British policy Japan will rid
: that high horse to war.
=. If Japan fights and keeps in ASH
| tic waters, even if it fights alon
! with the British merely indifferel
to what happens to the United Stat,
the American navy will have to ca
ry the fight to the other end of I'll
world. We may win, but win, loi
or draw we lose. We have nothir
to get from war with Japan but
loss.
The United States and Great Bri
ain can reduce Japan to insular i
! significance if it were necessary al
the Japanese know it. The Unit,
States alone might do it in the en-
but at cost which would illum
| nate the worlds greatest folly.
Japan is menace. 1t is needle
y enc. 1t is a menace because the Ur
ted States is behaving as a fo'
: America is doing everything that
~ ought rct to do and nothing that
S should, am it will wake up some d
: to find twenty-four packs of car