Show PRESS PARAG PARAGRAPHS I arc are still discussing Japans Japan's n aggressions in Manchuria the open open door and Manchuria as 35 a market mar mar- ket for American products Tho The Nework Now New York lork enin E Evening Post discusses all our national national national na na- na- na shortcomings except the vital one ono the tho tho silver question question question-In in treating of our oriental trade relations It says To To overcome Japans Japan's advantage ad of an art enormously cheaper cr labor Jabor market and much lower frei freight ht rates what efforts cf- cf forts lorts have wo we made macro at home borne what new resources havo O we wc brou brought ht to play ou on the Chinese e market At homo home the tho mock mock- cr cry of tariff revision sends the cost of or I living in steadily upward and makes even tho the semblance of competition with Japan Ja pan in in tho the matter of labor cost able In China the tho American merchant clings to his antediluvian habit of or carrin carrying the stock he himself likes best packing pacKing- and ancl labeling his hig wares to suit himself Ind and as for making himself familiar fa fa- fa with the language and habits of his public ridiculous c Is it not now as as' plain as pikestaff that if Japanese trade in Manchuria is growing and American trade is s declining it must be bo tho the wicked Japanese who arc behind it all alii 1 That our country has rights rig in in Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- churia despite J Japanese a aggression is the argument of tho Philadelphia Press It says Tho southern half of Manchuria Manchuria Man Man- nn churia is is as completely under the mili military military tary tar control of Japan as IS any an part of Korea Its railroad system m IS is a as completely com corn in tho the hands h of f Japan though local ocal administration over oer the tho Chine Chinese c is in in the hands of f the mandarins appointed at ut Pekin But while hi Ie this is tho the situation as far as us China and Japan are concerned concerned con con- Manchuria is by treaty and mutual mu a agreement part of China as much muchas as ever cr as far as America is concerned Tho ri rights of our citizens citizen remain un un- changed O Our Or r right to the trade of oC the region is unaltered l capital has the same S right to fo share haro in the construction construction con con- of now nw railroads as in ill an any other part of China Secretary Knox itis it is is now clear dear proposes es to stand by this Americans and the open door is the thc theme of tho Louisville illo Courier Journal J It i is agreed t b by a majority o of at investigators wio Q ha viewed conditions condition condi condi- lions tion at close range that Japan ha has hap flagrantly violated d the tho spirit and anul letter of the Portsmouth treaty tb that t she sho is isnow isnow isnow now flagrantly violating it and that her policy is is to continue continuo fl flagrantly violating vio vio- lating it it A majority of the stay stas' staat at home students of of Asian isian affairs co concede cedo that Japan ha not acted with an any any great groat amount of sincerity f in maintaining the tho open door This ThiR h view w i is tak taken n notwithstanding not withstand withstanding ins the tho fact that the friendliness nets ness of Americans for the Japanese cs- cs in iii the tho cast which publishes a majority of th the weekly journals and mas magazines as well as a goodly number of tho newspapers inclines American opinion favorably toward Japanese o en cn Tho The open door it is is isery isNY very ery generally admitted d is it nothing more than diplomatic fiction The Indianapolis News Nc's treats the door door loor as mm i L fiction What we have havo to ask ourselves therefore is how bow far We wo we arc willin willing to go co how far we ought to go 10 in our efforts to win in commercial com corn mercial advantages nd in China In spite of all the pledges that have been made on this subject tho the open door has been a I good dc deal 1 of ofa a a fiction And there are ro many who doubt whether wo ran can do anything to 10 make malc it a reality We Wp arc are I sure that the time state elate department Dt will he be beslow hemlow slow to commit the nation irrevocably to any policy that may ma involve o u us in in serious serious- complications with other powers and that might involve inoh us in in war This country is ie not not unless wo woo arc nrc greatly mistaken pr prepared to go o to war ar in in order to get et or to hold huM trade I That runt t is worth watching is tho belief of t the tho 10 Philadelphia In Inquirer It Itis It Itis is is however quite plain that China could ouM not g give gc c Japan an exclusive right richt of mining iu in Manchuria or any part of it without thereby prejudicing the interests muter inter ests ts of other nations and rUn running counter coun- coun tor ter to time the principle of equal commercial opportunity upon which the thc United States has taken the load lead in assisting and which the treaty treat of Portsmouth assumes as as- to guarantee The Time slate department at WashingS Washing Washington ton accordingly took the matter up and aul invited from Japan an explanation asto ns as to the pr precise moaning meaning of tho the clause in question Satisfactory as assurances on this point having havins boon been received the time incident incident in may mar be he considered closed closed but it mav be assumed that by this time the tho department of state strite has h learned that Japan Taran is is worth watching and that eternal eternal eter eter- na nal vigilance is tho the puce of the open door Pittsburg Pittsburg- Dispatch The rue state department de do- clarifies the supposed suppo Manchurian Man Man- mystery and aud incidentally further fur furs ther illumines the tiLe Crane incident by tho the announcement of the thc result of its inquiries in in- in into the conventions concluded b by China sail and Japan Tapan last September over which so 80 much discussion has lias been raised Secretary Knox is satisfied from rom th the official assurances received from both governments go and the information mation in pos possession of the tho state department de de- de that this a agreement was as not nota a violation of the tho door 1 open or equal quI opportunities' opportunities policy and ud that Americans Ameri Amen cans and others other will not be discriminated muted against because ot of this con conven conven- cn tion hon |