Show JAP PROBLEM MAY FORCE ANGLO AMERICAN UNiON BY A. A MAUR MAURICE ICE LOW N The Fore Foremost ost Contemporary Historian Author and Publicist I W WASHINGTON Sept 25 A 5 A few ew thousand Japanese J In California ma mabe may maybe maybo y be bo the means of ot bringing about a polIcy policy policy pol pol- icy in in Anglo American relations 0 Of f policy In the tho European sense between t England and America In the pas past n there thero hat has been none except the policy regarded as ns sufficient for the time being be be- ing Now events are so shaping that a to clear cut policy may b bo be forced on both hoth countries Between Beh the iho United States and Japan there Is no affection Dc Because that dislike exists and on the tho part ot of Americans is Ingrained It Is a subject j I on 1 which the press preA with the exception I of oC the th newspapers on the tile Pacific cOa coast t Is la united In a conspiracy acy of ot silence In private ate Americans frankly frankl disclose their real feelings The Japa anti neso nelio sentiment is stronger on the Pacific Pa Pa- cHic coast than in the Middle lIddle West est orin or 01 orIn In the East bec because on tho thu west coast In California especially the pa Japanese se I I I I question lI his bars s social and economic I phases es which do not affect the rest of ot the tho country But It must not be supposed sup sup- posed that th this antipathy th Is purely lo local lo- lo eat cal calor or confined solely to Californian California California- To the average rase American Japan Is a a. menace and to a potential foe toe In the popular belief war with Japan Is 11 not only possible but highly probable II It ItIs is not easy cuy to explain the Cl cause se ol of this feeling but national animosities are fire no n nto o e susceptible of ot explanation than th this prejudices of or individuals Certain Certainly Japan has never done anything anything anything any any- thing to wound American pride or to cause her material injury but I do donot donot not attempt explanation and simply I state facts tact I PERCENTAGE SMALL There arc are approximately Japanese In California a trifle more than 2 23 per pel cent of oC the total population population population tion of or the state Seemingly this negligible neg neg- Asiatic element ought not to be bea a danger to tile the dominant and numerically numerically cally superior white race Yet Yel tho the Californian will tell you ou that thal his civil civil- and supremacy s are threat threat- ened Tho The Japanese the tho Californians 81 say cannot be assimilated and there la Is danger from a people alien In color lan language thought civilization who must always remain separate and apart and cannot be Incorporated Into the common stock or who will debase the native stock I do not go 0 into the tho merits of oC the argument I simply state stata the tho facts A further grievance o of the Californian Is ls economic The Japa Japanese nose nese labor Incessantly and are frugal they thrive where whore th the white man starves otar the great greit wealth of California Is in her agriculture her farms and her fruit ranches and the Californian complains bitterly that some of tho the fairest lands of or the state are arc In In the hands of the Japanese who combining skill with craft will if the they arc not checked control the agricultural re resources resources resources re- re sources of California PREJUDICE GENERAL of California and some of the other Pacific coast states the prejudice pre pre- judice against the Japanese Is general and ami not particular Through the tho Middie Middle Mid Mid- die dle West and the least East they are scat scat- There Is hardly a city largo large or small where there is not a a. Japanese curio shop they are aro earning a living as hous household hold servants ser waiters walters and inmany In Inmany Inmany many other humble capacities They are aro usual usually quiet Inoffensive and law lawI law law- I abiding and seldom burden the police courts yet et as the they move about unobtrusively unobtrusively I I furtively almost they arouse I the suspicion and and and- dislike of oC the AmerIcan American American Amer Amer- ican who thinks of ot the day da dato to comei come i The American will tell teU you OU frankly t enough that although his grievance Is Isi i against the Japanese his greater grievance ance Is against the English because if tC it were not for tor tho Japanese Anglo-Japanese al alliance ai- ai liance Japan would not be bo the menace I j that that she she is la now conceived to be It Is impossible to make the tho average AmerI AmerIcan Amerlean Amer- Amer I lean Ican believe believe- that England does not anI encourage cn- cn courage the Japanese to Insist upon I I rights which the Americans den deny i I j or to convince them that England docs does not secretly instigate Japan to oppose I American policy Japan can afford tp flaunt the tho United States Americans say because she oho knows she can rely j 1 upon the support and material assistance assist assist- ance ranco 0 of England It Is hi difficult to correct correct correct cor cor- r this belief bellet You are told that JaI Japan Japan Ja- Ja I pan Is constantly intriguing in Mexico that while for tor tho moment she may be bo opposing Russia and andas was as tho enemy o or of Germany eventually e she will be found in alliance with Germany or Russia perhaps li both both h so as ns to be able safely to carr carry out her ambitious designs ENGLAND FOR U. U S S. S Obviously the duty Is imposed d upon England l of oC abandoning her alliance with Japan Japan and and contracting an alliance alliance alli alli- ance with America you naturally think Not at all America does not contract alliances but a formal alliance alli alli- alliance I alii-I ance between England and America a written contract is not necessary Greater Grenter and nd more binding than tho the deed on parchment is the spirit and I moral sentiment that binds two peoples peo peo- ples pieR England 1 can show her good faith ralth and b by standing with the white race against the yellow If It England really wants to bo be on terms term of ot friend friend- friendship ship with tho the United d States she mutt muot not be tho the friend of or Americas America's enemy For the sake of argument but argument but merely merely merely mere mere- ly to dev develop the ho argument you argument you may admit all tha has been said Is true and ask aek if JC England in the interest of ot America AmerIca Amer- Amer Ica ico should abandon the tho Japanese alliance alliance alli alli- ance what Is tho the American compensation tion lion You even even put it somewhat hat bluntly blunt blunt- ly Tho Anglo Japanese Anglo alliance In Instead instead In- In stead of or a menace to is to her advantage as England being the ally of ot Japan can give her friendly counsel when America requests It In the opinIon opinion opinion ion of or English statesmen the alliance is not without value to England If Ir j England risks offending Japan Inan and turns friendship if not Into active c hostility hoe hos at least Into resentment what has America to offer In return 1 I BOTH FO FOR FODI CH NA As the tho suggestion of oC an alliance is precluded the only Inducement Is the Identity of ot mutual Interests Japan I seeks to control China ChInn and close tho door to the r rest t. t of oC the tho world England and the United States Slates are compelled to keep kc-ep tho the door open and by standing together they can force Japan to obey them But suppose Japan should re resist resist re- re you suggest to carry the ar u- u I 1 I ment further urther then what Then you are arc philosophically told w we shall see sea what we shall see sec but tho the step Is for England to relieve Am American anxiety b by throwing over the Japanese alliance The Tho Inconsistency of this Americans do not see sea Prediction Is always a fascinating but jut ever a a. dangerous game One may resist the temptation and yet foresee foresee foresee fore fore- see the time to come when Americas America's Interests in the Far East may bring about an Anglo-American Anglo policy policy not not nota a temporary arrangement resting on no nomore nomore I more secure foundation than moral sentiment but a definite and well well-de fined do-fined poll policy C well dO |