Show JAPANESE YELLOW PERIL HIOKI CALLS IT A MYTH ISLAND NATIONS NATION'S EYES ElS NOT HOT ON OX PHILIPPINES 1 Japan Stands for Open Door and a Square quare Deal to All American All American Aid Welcomed Japan Is Inclined to resent the recurrence recurrence recurrence re re- re- re currence of allegations in the newspapers newspapers newspapers news news- papers of this country that she has designs upon the Philippines In an address before the members of at the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce lion Eki Hioki FIrst Secretary of the Japanese Legation expressed in no I uncertain terms what Is believed belie to tobe tobe tobe toI be a definite statement of at the policy of the Mikado with reference to the lA HON lION EKI HIOKI mOKI Secretary of the Japanese Embassy attitude of that thit nation in her future industrial and commercial life Mr 11 lays lars special emphasis upon the frank and authoritative disavowals of the frequently reported frequently reported ambition of Japan to absorb the th Philippine Islands for her own people For Tor the sake of argument said Mr Hioki laying aside entirely forthe for lor the moment consideration of the motive motive motive mo mo- tive of Japan regarding the present subject let me ask you a a question Can you believe that this great American American American Amer Amer- ican people who glory in their national spirit in their gigantic strength strength- in their boundless wealth in their marvelous marvelous marvelous mar mar- development de and look forward with proud and confident anticipation Rl iA for man to run would allow her flag to be lowered be it itin in the Philippines 01 or or anywhere else which legitimately belongs belongs to s S f to w her n by t. t o any r lj hands no 2 but aU h hers heis t f i ithe the spirit with which you cling to your new possessions in the Pacific and that ought to be the spirIt of the people who respect honor and justice Would Mean Gigantic War And who can better understand that spirIt of the Am Americans than the Japanese Therefore If If Japan harbored liar liar- bored such a a sinister design ris as is attributed attributed at- at to her she must be prepared to plunge in a war far more mor gigantic than the one just ended against a nation nation nation na na- na- na tion to which she owes much that she is to day to-day day and to whose people she owes that moral and financial support so bo unreservedly given at th the most critical period in her history No the Philippines are not the sacrifice sacrifice sac- sac of such a valuable fri friendship as th that lt of America and the enormous losses in men and money which such sucha a war would necessarily entail Nor Noris is Japan in a a. position to carry carryon on another another another an an- other costly war but for self self defense For Open Door in China The increased prestige of Japan turned the eyes of the world toward to the problem of what influence Japan Tapan will wield over China Some people go o so far as to assert that Japan will control China proclaim the thelon Monroe Monroe Mon lon lonroe roe doctrine for Asia and drive out from honi the lie East all the white devils devil and exterminate the Western influences in influences within 1 its borders Without questioning either the value alue of at the principles contained in inthe inthe inthe the so called so-called called Monroe doctrine or Its Ita applicability to the Eastern situation at present I can simply say that such an idea has not entered Into the th Japanese Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese mind and such a policy has not seen been even the formation I For or the maintenance of at the integrity and Independence of China Japan joined hands with Great Britain For Tor securing equal opportunities in China Japan lent her ber eager efforts efforts' to th the tha United States to make malte the open door policy effectively operative Competition with America J It is absurd continued Mr Hioki to say that in the course of a few years jears ears Ame American goods will wUl be crowded out of at the Chinese market by Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese neRe competition The main ground upon which rests this apprehension is that Japan has cheap labor at t cOIn nand But nut labor in Japan Tapan does not remain cheap The effect of the Chi na Japan war was to double the price of labor and the war with Rus Itus- Russia sia sla must raise it much higher In spite of these disadvantages Japan must mURt develop her commerce and Indus Industry industry try and she will have to compete with all an the world friend or foe Her lIer commercial war will be fought taught just justas as fairly and squa squarely ly as the real war wai She asks no favor from China that Is lt not RI granted anted to the entire w world She stands for the open door and in the words of your great President a square deal American merlean Capital Welcomed Tapan Japan welcomes capital and material mater mater- ial lal from front any countr country The United States is supplying materials for important Important important Im im- Japanese Industries why can cannot cannot not rot she supply the capital Why can there not be a commercial alliance between between be he- tween Japan and the United States We are willing to divide a fair share I of the profits wherever gained with an any people The United States has been is and will be Japans Japan's best cus cus- tomer Future of the Orient The future of the Orient is great and the greater reater it is the better for the world With peace guaranteed by the Angl Japanese Anglo alliance amance anu equal opportunities opportunities op op- op- op In Korea and China secured secured secured se se- cured by that treaty as well wen as by the agreement of ot the policies of ot the three great Pacific powers powers Japan Japan the United States Stales and Great Britain un an important era has dawned upon the tho Orient During the last quarter of a century all the great events of the world have transpired in the East For years to come the East will still b be the center of the worlds world's great happenings |