The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-26
NO TOLERANCE FOR ASIATIC
 MILITARISM


 tinues to insist upon maintaining a strange hold on China, with an obvious purpose to maintain perpetual suzerainty over the Chi nese republic and with gradual development of the policy of despoliatien and exploitation which the Japanese empire has for a number of years been following on the Asiatic main- land
 To enter into treaty with Japan and leave in their present status the real fundamental and menacing Pacific questions would be, in effect, to enter into partnership with the wrongs committed and in contemplation against sister republic
 It was the worldwide unpopularity of the course of Japan which led to the desire of Great Britain to renounce the Ang o-Japanese treaty. The odium of that treaty will extend to any new compact under which Japan is permitted to continue her policy of aggression against Asiatic neighbors. This republic can not afford to enter partnership protective in behalf of Japan, which is not equally protec- tive of China as against Japan or any other power seeking undue advantage.
 If Japan is to be permitted to follow the seizure of Korea, in violation of a solemn agreement, and the domination of Manchuria, by such overlordship of China's domestic af- fairs as is contemplated in the 21 demands, then we must either turn our backs on the Pa cific for good or live in the shadow of con- flict with power bent upon far more ambi~ tious aims in the Pacific basin than the kaiser ever dreamed of in the western world.
 The American people have assumed that during the Washington conference Japan would be required to renounce her plans for domination of China. They know that when Japan gains control of the resources and man power of China no scheme of aggrandizc- ment will be too vainglorious. for this rapidly rising militaristc and navalistic nation to at tempt. They realize that the chief hope of peace in the Pacific is for Japan to adopt the same attitude toward China and other peoples of the Orient that United States has adopted toward the republics of this hemisphere, in volvng no sacrifice of sovereignty or exclusive commercial or political privileges for this na- ton.
 But there are multiplying evidences that Japan is stubbornly contendng for the maln~ tcnance of her domination, backed by bayonets, over China. We cannot prevent such an attl- tude, but we can decline to enter into any agreement which by the remotest implication, involves sanction or tolerance of it. If Japan intends to continue the game through which Germany came to disaster, let her do so not as a member of the general society of nations, but as an Ishmaelite, in which case such a pro- gram is sure to culminate in early disaster for Japan.
 No hostility to Japan is involved in the de- sire that the demands of Japanese militarists and forcible expansionists should be resisted Unless these tendencies be curbed the ruin of Japan within a few years is just as certain. as that the kaiser's dreams are ended. If Japan will put the money and the brains she has been using in subjugating other Asiatic peo- ples into commercial development her pros perity and progress are assured. This nation will throw no stone in the way of her indus trial expansion and stands ready to join Japan in preventing by peaceful means, other na- tions from seizing special privileges in the Orient Japan's proximity to the Asiatic mainland insures her tremendous opportunities in trade without the resort to that policy of theft and oppression in which European na1 tions set the example for many years Through enterprise and good will the Jap anese can be. first in the trade of the East, but the plan of clearing a way for business with cannon is one that will lead Japan into hu- bankruptcy and defeat