The Washington times., 1922-03-07
TO the Senate of
the United States

possessing adequate defense against aggression is
mad to throw it away and substitute worthless pact with the
aggressor against whom that defense carried.
Kpng being great poet and great knower of teaches
the truth by parable, by story
The blind Matun mighty hunter tells of the horrible
tragedy that befe him when he lowered his Of defense
against Adamza 'he bear that walks like a man.
The poem written in 1893 definite warning to Eng
land The Bear Russia The Gar had just issued his call
for the first Peace Conference at The Hague.
Kplng thinking of long list of Russian aggressons
against those who had trusted her.
Above ALL he thinking of this Bear in 1898 which
had marched the Afghan frontier stood there looking south
ward huge that the ta mountains in the world
could conceal his menacng bulk from English in the
Himalayan passes.
Did England Kiplings warnngi Or did she go a
conference and her Did England make
formal alliance with Russia guarantee Russia the eternal
enjoyment punder Did England go conference and
do thisi
She did not.
The first Hague Conference was harmless and uneventu
social between who did check their
at the door.
What England did to close alliance with
Japan directed against Russia Then when the alliance was in
working order held other nations off and in 1904 Japan
hit Russia hard that Russia unconscious for
far as war.making was concerned.
England with the Bear which threatened
What do our statesmen identical circumstances
Today Japan is "the Bear that walks like man. By
consent today regarded heir of the dead Russian
and German aggressive mperialsms
footsteps the Pacific islands which
Japan seized from Germany We heard them South America
As the shifts the Bears shadow upon
Philippines GUAM the Hawaiian Islands, the Panama Canal
Pacific Coast
Japan for peace" you say Read the history the last
thirty years. Talk with those who know the world situation and
Japan last of all Lord Norhc He has just been
Japan Washngons Birthday he cabed the WORLD from
Monte Carlo:
IT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED THAT JAPAN's WAR
PARTY Is NEVER ASLEEP
Naval disarmament We the only dsarm We scrap
80
drafting ships that have imagined for
ngon conference trade against real ships ready
launched
Do scrap old batteshipsi
No; Roosevelt r Assistant Secretary the
Navy, speaking last Wednesday,
The treaty scrapped twenty large capital ships Wat
Of the twenty capital ships thirteen
struction.
Senator's Japan such nation record is her
leadership such that free America shall join her in formal aancei
Not all the reservations attach to the treaty
destroy the possibility that 1t will drag into that
involves Japan Great Britain France in the Orient
the memory the Senate shortf Has
the passed. Does remember that the President under
form Of Government conducts foreign relations
to the point where he asks for q declaration of
happened in 1917 The situation April such the
Senate could not have avoided war had it desired.
That in which bore obligations to the partici
pants What of future Pacific which shall
the ally the ombaansf After the four treaty
infinitely likely to be enmeshed in foreign warsi
1t true that this treaty does not pledge anybody
does create the possibility that Of the participants may
angled into fighting for Of the others in the Pacific
To that possibility reality will work of dpo
do not know how to play Our diplomats never
succeed getting the fight by experience
the others will succeed in getting to fight for them