Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1931-11-26
THURSDAY, NOV. &c, 1881
ANYWAY TT is NOT OUR BATTLE

The one thing more certain than almost any other thing
is that about 999 out Of every 1000 Americans believe the
United States has business to interfere actively III any
way between Japan and China the present controversy
except to its good offices to maintain the peace be
tween the bellgerents The the thousand who
may think otherwise is the adyenturer who may wish to
get into the scrap perhaps he is of those who be
heVes that jolly little will restore prosperity to busi
ness in America. -
In the first place few Americans actually know the
rights and wrongs Of the We sympathetic with
China, perhaps, always sympathetic with the
under dog and inclined to believe Japan is imperi
alisc and dislike Imperialism but sometimes the
der dog deserves to be the under dog and sometimes an
imperalstic policy the part of nation is necessary
for its own self lf-preservation
After all China has made pretty bad mess of her
national life Her people have spent Of the last 20
30 years fighting another That does not that
Japan should take advantage of this situation to crush
China of course, but the feeble position of the various
Chinese governments has been we'll understood by the
great powers that for many years they have attempted
by the invocation of their soeaed eXt1-teritoral gts
to dominate her national government.
We informed that China is rising to concep-
on of integrated nationasm and that is hopeful if true
but she has not, yet demonstrated her ability to gov
herself Still she has the right to msgovem herself
If she cannot do otherwise.
But be that may the other powers naturally resent
any attempt the part Of Japan to gain dominance of
China. The white know instnctively that if the
yellow to be allied under the leadership of
Japan the supposed racial superiority Of the whites would
be endangered Supposng that through the alchemy of
or by any other means, Japan with her 60000000
should unite with Chinas 400000O00 people, such union
would constitute serious menace to the white races of
the world.
These things that in the back ground of world
politics, just They not discussed by the dplo-
mats-wlll not be discussed by them; just whispered
But far the United States is concerned this con-
fhct is between two Asiac powers and that is ALL Our
interests not directly involved and short of some ac
tual attack upon cannot we'll be involved If Presi-
dent Hoover reconcile the bellgerents that is we'll
and all his countrymen will approve but we will place our
selves peril by adopting any that could be CON
srued as meddlesome This is conflict between two ma
tlons OF not between races And our nation ex
cep for the dollars it's citizens may have invested in
China Japan has immediate concern in the outcome
of the present difficulty
The League OF Nations in which so happily the United
States IS without membership, is empowered to invoke
boycott to its armed forces against nation
that it considers to be the aggressor in war bu tbs
country is not bound by any such agreement and it
be safely said certain of the powers that are members
OF the League would find it convenient not TO use the how
colt and armed forces in this situation if the United States
were to sit apart