The Washington herald., 1922-01-22

Washington to have solved. except
the establishment within the counk
try Of a stable representative gov
ernment. That Is IL the fine young
Chinese that have represented their
country here want to see their pro-
gram carried out, they must 60
back to China and work within the
country to secure order, education,
development of their people along
modern lines. There have been too
many Chinese at the Washington
conference who have = spent the
greater part of their lives In Eu-
rope and America, and who are ac-
tually unfamiliar with home con-
ditions.
A stable Chinese republic de-
efforts at home as well as upon
freeing China from foreign en-
croachments. Not a few Speople
came to this conference Believing
that the only problem was to expei
the Japanese from shantung and
force her to withdraw her twenty
one demands. II China had had a
strong united government In the
past there would have been no JAP
anese now in Shantung, and no
twenty-one demands. Shantung is
a spoil of war. and under the old
code by which the world has ac-
quired power and possessions be
longs" to Japan. That Is. her claim
to II is as valid as the claim OF
many nations. ourselves included. 70
certain territories which we hold
without dispute. Japan points out
for Shantung, and this is true. And
always when in the past men spent
blood and treasure to wrest that
which was not theirs from others.
the world has sanctioned their per-
formance.
New Code Causes Question.
Japan's right to Shantung is
questioned now because of a new
code We are trying to put In force.
That is, men are trying to prove
that II shall be no longer by blood
and treasure that we progress. but
by good will. fair dealing, superior
efficiency of mind and hand. The
practical question seems to be
when is this new code to begin to
operate? In 1922. as Japan wishes,
or with the first entrance of the
foreigner into China, as radical
Chinese wished. And II II Is to be
adopted by the nations Is II to ap-
ply only to China? The code that
would sweep Japan now entirely
out Of China would also sweep us
out of the Philippines and Haiti,
England out of India and Egypt.
There are strong young nationalist
parties today in the Philippines
and in Haiti, in India and in Egypt.
insisting by the arguments that
the Chinese delegation in Wash
ingtsn is using, that the foreign
ers shall go; and in all of these
countries as in China today the
reason given by the protecting
or invading-power. as you choose
to regard it, that they stay, is
that their going would be the
worst thing in the world that
could happen to the country.
In the case of Shantung and the
twenty-one demands. the solution
is going to depend upon how far
Japan realizes that these valid
claims of hers, that is valid under
the old code, are handicaps and
not advantages to her. how far
she realizes that by attempting to
keep them in force she is going to
cripple her own real, advancement
in China. increase and prolong the
boycott of her goods and incur the
ill will of other nations, particu-
larly of this nation.
Jnpophobfa Foolish.
Certainly we are not going to
help China's case or encourage
Japan in generous dealing by con-
tinuing to cultivate mistrust and
hatred of the Japanese. A system
attic effort to make one nation hate
another belongs to the old way OF
doing things. Indeed, 1t has been
one Of the chief methods by which
we have thought to progress In
the world. You built up distrust.
dislike, suspicion, until you had
created an enemy in the minds OF
the mass of the people, SO hateful
that II became an almost religious
duty to overthrow II. We have
had this sort of thing going on In
this country in regard to japan
for years, calculated. nation
wide extremely able effort to. make
the American people fear and dis
pise the japanese. to bring them
TO a point where they would gladly
as relief to their feelings, un-
dertake a war against Japan /
do not know that a sterner re-
buke to the American public-the
sterrer because unconscious -
could have been given that a re-
mark of Prince Tokugawa in one
of his little talks before he sailed
for home. He was telling how
surpssed as well as grateful the
Japanese had been at American
hospitality, because, he said.
when we came we feared that
the Americans were so hostile to
us that IL might be impossible for
us to 60 with safety on the
streets"
THOSE who know the Orient best
all agree that its future peace, and
therefore the future peace Of the
world, depends largely upon Japan.
She is the one strong, stable uni
fed nation in the East. LShe has,
IL is true, a powerful miiitarlstic
party, but opposed to that Is a con-
siderable liberal group. Prince
Tokusawa, who played so nne a
part in his delegation here during
the conference, is a man VINO mas
taken keen interest in labor ques-
tIons, education of the people, the
development of industry. and has
thrown all his great interest
against militarism. 1t Is said ny
those who know much OF japan
that the Empress herself Is con-
WINGED that either the Empire must
have a democratic leadership,
constitutional monarchy with re-
sponsible cabinet, an army and
NAVE under civil control, or that