The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1921-11-16

try has Vet been or Will ever be able
TO accomplish. Human nature
isn't that way; subject race is
generally a greater burden than
help in time OF War; and Japan is
not looking for war. Japan needs
peace. is willing to pay a price for
peace. and believes that tnat price
Will be not only morally but prof.
tably paid.
But from China we Japanese
believe we have Il right to ask the
privileges OF equal opportunity and
the open door. We are not SO
richly endowed as America with
wealth, territory, and raw mater
ialS Here YOU have everything.
You are self-sustaining. But we
are like the British Isles. We have
a population approximately OF
sixty millions, With territory the
size OF one Of Your medium sized
states Our supplies OF raw ma
terials must come from abroad, and
the markets for the goods We man
ufacture must likewise be foreign
countries Without supplies from
over the seas and without markets
at the ends Of our steamship lines,
we cannot live. The neighboring
undeveloped Asiatic mainland has
an abundance Of the necessary raw
materials and also affords an i'm
pOrtaGt market. We desire the
rights and privileges of trading on
this mainland on equal terms with
any ration, near or remote; and in
turn We are willing that any other
nation s.all enjoy, in fair compe-
tition, equal rights with ourselves.
There is trade fcy all in these vast
territories, more extensive and
probably as richly endowed as the
United States.
But here is ar interesting point:
To the United States the materials
and trade of the Asiatic mainland
are only a source Of added wealth,
while to Japan they are g necessity
of existence. We ask only an ap-
plication of the policy Of live and
let live.
1T is contended by the relentless
opponents Of Japan that in develop
ing East Asian resources we should
deprive the continental people Of
what is rightfully and exclusively
theirs. The reverse is the truth;
we should benefit them. The Japa-
nese would be superhuman beings
if among them there We're no trad
ers who tried to exploit the native
people. There are always in back
ward countries foreigners who seek
only their own selfish ends, and
these foreigners are not only Jap
anese. In seeking their own ad-
vantage western adventurers have
often been able to teaci, the Japan
tricks. But on the whole the con-
tinental people, now generally
poor and unfortunate. are greatly
benefited by any development OF
agriculture or mining, any con-
struction Of railways or organiza-
ton of Steamship lines, that more
progressive people undertake.
I'm what condition, for instance,
would China be today without the
enterprise Of European and Japa-
nese railway builders and promot-
ers of mining, of industries, of ag-
riculture and Of the steamship lines
that visit her ports-and, If I may
go further, without the foreign ed
ucation that is being given her
sons, primarily by Great Britain,
Japan and the United States? I de-
iberately class education with de-
velopment, for one is essential to
the other and both serve the cause
Of progress Neither Of these things
are without their evils, but how
much greater are their benefits!
The cause Of Manchuria is we'll
worth considering. Before the rail
way lines were constructed there
and the brigands along them
brought under control, .Manchuria
was almost depopulated. 1t was in
effect an extension Of the Mon
golian Desert, with Mukden the
Only pace WI LILY ~ NC oiSAAiAO0
by the name of city. Today the
opportunities that are afforded
peaceful farmers, the protection
that is given them, the railroads
that take their crops to the sea-
ports, and the steamship lines that
convey them as far as Europe and
An,erica-these things create a
greater demand for labor than the
Manchurian population can sup
ply, and hundreds of Chinese cross
annually from the provinces of
Shantung and Chill into South
Manchuria to reap the harvests,
thereby earning in the temperate
months Of the year sufficient wage
to enable them to return to China
and provide for their families
throughout the winter.
Likewise do foreign countries.
including Great Britain and the
United States, proA by the develop
ment, no matter who undertakes it.
Americas trade with Japan today,
both export and import, is far
greater than that with China, in
spite of the latter's gigantic size
and natural wealth. Part Of the
trade in cotton goods may have
passed from the United States and
Great Britain 70 Japan, but the in
crease in the sales Of machinery