The Omaha morning bee., 1925-04-17

doubt get all eastern Siberia. but that
In my opinion II would be an utterly
vsiueless possession 10 them. while
they would make Russia an enemy
whose hostility would endure as long
- the nation herself existed. and
that 10 achieve this result at the cost
Of an additional year Of loss of blood
upon Japanese resources. seems TO ME
TO be wholly useless. Japan now has
Port Arthur and Korea and the DOM
nance in Nanehuria. and should feel
that the less she asked for in addition
the better II would be. l also told
them that IL I were in their place I
should cheerfully have accepted
Russias proposition 10 go TO The
Hague, or for the matter OF that TO
go to Paris. because I should have
been only too glad to give Russia the
shell as long as | kept the kernel.
The latter expression. by the way,
interested Takahira very much and I
had to explain at some length what /
meant.
tIhe president here inserts ms oDseTNa-
tions. which has been published hereto
fore. that the more he sees of the car.
kaiser and mikado. the better eontented
he finds himself with democracy, even
II we have TO include the American news
paper as one of its assets--liabiiity would
be better term Russia ss he describes taDs
Japan as entirely selfish, but with more
capacity.
1t Is for the real interest of Japan
to make peace. IL she can get suit
able terms, rather than fight on for
a year at great cost of men and
money and then find herself in pos
session of eastern Siberia (which is
of no value to her) and much strain
ed by the struggle. Russia had far
better make peace now, II she pos
sihly can and find her boundaries in
east Asia left without material
shrinkage from what they We're ten
years ago, than to submit to being
driven out of east Asia While for tha
rest of us, while Russia s. triumph
would have been blow to civiliza
ton, her destruction as an eastern
Asiatic power would also in my opin-
ion be unfortunate. 1t Is best tha.
she should be left face to face with
Japan SO that each may have a mod
Grating action on the other. As for
Japan, she has risen with simply
marvellous rapidity. and she Is as
formidable from tho industrial as
from the military standpoint. She is
a great civilized nation; though her
civilization Is In some important re-
spects not like ours. There are some
things she can teach us, and some
things she can learn from US. She
will be as formidable an Industrial
competitor as, for instance, Germany,
and In a dozen years / think she will
be the leading industrial nation of
ed her trade and prepared for the
establishment of new steamship lines
to all kinds of points in the Pacific
has been astonishing. for It has some
right on even through the time OF
this war. Whether her tremendous
growth In industrialism will in course
of time modify and perhaps soften
the wonderful military spirit she has
inherited from the days of the Sam
uria supremacy it is hard to say.
Personally. I think 1t will; but the ef-
feet will hardly be felt for a genera
ton to come. Still, her growing In
dustrial wealth will be to certain
extent hostage for her keeping the
peace. We should treat her court
eously, generously and justly, but We
should keep our navy up and make
1t evident that we are not influenced
by fear. I do not believe she will
look toward the Philippines until af-
fairs are settled on the mainland of
Asia In connection with China even
IL she ever looks toward them. and
on the mainland of China her policy
is the policy to which we are already
committed.
tAt last, as Roosevelt expressed his
cablegrams called the blufr OF the Rus
slams. They agreed TO have the confer
ence In Washington. Subsequently II was
moved tc Portsmouth where the peace
waq concluded. Roosevelt commented to
fondness for lying. He was not optirnis-
tic about making peace at first.. The
Russians hs said behaved badly habit
ually. The japanese behaved infinitely
better. though sometimes not perfectly.
r shall tell you all about my ex-
periences in connection with Ger
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