Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-08-13
Western World Started
Japs' Invasion of China
CONTINUED from rage one.)

most important of all-higher tariffs
nave crowded both these nations back
against the wall. They feel that the
other great powers have cheated them
and abandoned them. They know that
they must seek their own salvation.
that the law of the survival of the
fittest applies to nations as well as to
individuals. Germany's troubles date
back to the war, the Versailles treaty.
and the destruction of her credit dur
Ing Initiation. Japan's problems are. Of
more recent origin.
Japan's Big Problem.
In 1854, when Japan first engaged
in commerce with the west, she was
500 years behind the Occident indus
trially. Her tremendous progress since
then is one of the greatest achieve
ments of the modern world. Perhaps
she has grown too fast industriallv.
At any rate, she is today a most eff
ficient and low-cost manufacturing
!, nation. Her little island empire. no
larger than the single State of Mon
tana, must feed population over half
the size of our own and five times
that of Canada. She has no great col
onial empire, such as Britain,s S, to pre-
vide supplies for her industries and
market places for her goods, She must
draw her raw materials from over
seas and there also she must find the
outlet for her finished goods.
It was our own Commodore Perry
who pried open the doors Of Yoke
hama and started Japan on her mod
ernization program. We have secured
more benefits from it than any other
nation. We have sold millions of dol
lars worth of machinery of all kinds
to hasten the process. SO far this year
eleven per cent, or $14O,OO0.DO0, of
our total exports have gone to japan.
Yet in return we have bought only
100000 worth of goods, or six per
cent of our imports, from her. Raw
materials are the principal item which
we send across the Pacific. For in
stance, Japan took more of our 1886
cotton crop than any other nation
even more than England.
How Can Japan Pay.
Foreign purchases can lie paid for
only with gold or with surplus pro-
ducts. Japan cannot pay us with gold
for she has none with which she
dares part. She can and does pay us
partially with silk, but our chemical
ly-made rayon has raised havoc with
Nipponese silk farmers. She cannot
pay the remainder of her debt in 9TH
er surplus goods-which in her case
are manufactured products-because
she cannot see our tariff barriers.
She has the ..me trouble with most
of the other western nations. They are
all eager to sell to Japan, but they do
not want to- buy her goods. Hence,
Japan in desperation seeks new ter
plies of raw materials and an outlet
for her finished goods.
During the last two decades, while
the worldsshas been shouting for an
end to military wars, it has been de-
liberately, with our aid, starting a far.
more dangerous war-a battle of eco
nomic barriers. In the end, these bar
riers lead II desperate nations into wars
Of aggression, such as the current
conflicts;in. North China. Moreover,
Germany, Italy, and other stffled ma
tions may try the Same "way out" At
any time Hence, / heartily commend
President. Roosevelt and Secretary of
State Hull for their painstaking Of
forts to lower tariffs reciprOcally and
to reestablish trade among nations,
Only an unselfish give-and-take re-
vision of these artificial barriers can
prevent future wars. Economically,
we are all brothers regardless of race,
color, or creed. One nation can pros
per only as all nations prosper.
Japan's Bad Psychology.
Naturally I cannot agree with ia