The Washington times., 1921-12-18
|D'Annunzio Sees Japan
AS Potter Trying To
Get White Races Land
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Japan since 1914 has conquered
her internal market. has eliminated
from China all foreign competition.
has invaded the markets of Indo.
China. Siam and India, has created
connections with South America and
Canada, has already entered trade
battle with European commercial
firms, and has copied from Euro
pean models the intimate mechan-
Ism Of Industrial, commercial and
financial systems Of the white man
by excluding from trade all middle
mon.
Japanese Acquisitive.
An American Of my time.
clear. far-sighted American. William
Seward. foresaw that two civlliza-
tons which were separated 1000
years ago on the plains Of Asia
would be encountered again in the
vastly of the Pacific.
HE considered Inevitable the
overlooking of the Asiatic tank to-
ward the American continent.
To-day how does California and
the northern coast Of the West de-
fend itself?
If you 60 to British Columbia. to
Australia or New Zealand, you will
find this same question Of defense
keeping always uneasy the men at
the helm. At Washington, at
Vancouver, at Victoria, the bars are
up against this invasion.
When the Japanese emigrant
establishes himself in q country he
Immediately Gusts his white rivals
from factories and fields. HIS
family soon follows him to his
new abode. His habits unfaillngly
exert their predominance. By as
siduously working he and his COM
panions enlarge the zone Of their
occupation, expelling little by little
their white rivals.
Although the yellow man de-
mands that he be allowed freedom
to penetrate wherever he pleases, he
does not admit the foreigner to his
own life. He affirms his right to
acquire and exploit, for example.
mine in Canada or a mine in the
United States, but he does not let
a foreigner become the owner of a
Japanese copper or anthony mine.
HE wants to fish in American and
Canadian waters and has made HIM
self master of practically all the
fishing off British Columbia. but he
forbids foreigners to fish In Nip
poneee waters.
This terrible faculty for assimila-
ton IL now well known. They are
even by virtue OF 1t a race worth
admirtng. even while we set our will
to oppose 1t.
''They declare Asia In one and in
Invisible, that the Himalayas are the
only apparent division between two
similar Civilizations Chinese one
with its Confucius communism. and
an Indian one with it's Veda indi-
vidualism. But the highest snowy
barriers cannot interrupt that ample
sublime unity from which were gen.
Grated all great religions or works.
Would Populate World.
THE people Of the Rising Sun 60
out of their insular boundaries to
make valuable again that unity and
to present oppressed and drained
Asia a perfect example of a national
Independent state.
What may not this example cost
the world?
"But their task is still more vast
and solemn. Their new task is to
melt and weld and harmonic per-
petually the two civilizations of the
Orient and Occident. Their future
hegemony. following the genius and
will of the race. IA to be Considered
not only from an Asiatic, but from a
world standpoint.
'aTheir race. in truth. IN very fer
tile. Human material IA Abundant.
Asia, with its multitudes, aspires to
replace the increasingly barren white
world in the mission OF repOpulating
and exploitation Of the whole earth.
The insatiable champion of Asia af.
firms. Mine IA the right to repeoD,e
the new countries: mine the right to
refertilixe the unproductiye regions.
/ have sdopted YOUR arts. YOUR In.
yentions, your method Of labor, your
system Of struggle. II I can hold in
nv hands the triumph of fleshly fe.
cundity. 7 shaIl he the stronpest
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