Show I WAR AND TARIFFS TARIFFS By Dy L. L A. A A Hollenbeck Not much muth has been beeD said about Viscount Ishii's Japanese mission to tosa sa the United States It may mean more than It appears t 10 to mean on the surface The United d' d States' States Asiatic policy has been right generally We stood for the open I- I door In China Now comes Viscount Ishii and also asks for the open door in China The open door means free trade while the clos closed d door means high tariffs A tariff Is a tax that a man must pay as a penalty before he e Is permitted to trade at all Free Ii trade In China means equal rights t to all nations while a tariff or a closed closed closed clos clos- ed door means special privileges to some men or some nations There has been an Inclination of some of the European nations and Japan too to partition China Each nation that would get a slice would get special privileges or free trade In Inthe Inthe the slice or territory that It had taken That was the object In partitioning partitioning partitioning par par- and und dividing up China between between between be be- tween the different nations so that these nations could get a free trade territory to Itself That would be bea a special privilege to Itself and of course that nation would place a tariff barrier against all other na- na na na- So It is apparent that the fhe principal and perhaps the sole object of acquisition acquisition acquisition ac- ac ac ac- of foreign territory by anyone any anyone anyone one nation Is for an open door or free tree trade for Itself and a tariff bar bar- S I rier riel against other nations and hence all wars seem to be purely commercial commercial commer commer- cial wars for the open door door and and free tree trade for tor themselves and the exclusion exclusion sion of or all II other nations by a closed i door or a high tariff harrier barrier I The United States has lias free tree trade tradel or an open door among all of ot the J I states and and- territories and territories and because itis It Itis is free a-free a tree free and unobstructed trade ra te itis It ItIs I Is v very ry great But when you cross the border horder and trade with a foreign I I country you OU have a tariff barrier I 1 I that pen penalizes business and when we trade with a foreign country or a j 1 I foreign country countr trades with us we orthey or orthey I th they y are penalized or punished or orI fined a certain for tor the privilege privilege I lege of trading across the border Therefore the annexation of ot foreign I territory to a country eliminates the 1 S tariff or tax for the privilege of trading trading trad- trad ing and introduces free trade Into I the territory annexed and changes I that territory from a closed door to toan toan I an open door proposition I Some Americans would like to annex annex annex an an- nex a part of oC Mexico I If Mexico were i self seU governing and i if there were an absolute free trade or an open door I S between the United States and Mex Diex- Mexico Mex-I Mex ico who ho would care a rap whether I Mexico exico fl floated the American flag or ora a Mexican flag Rights would he be 1 I equal and with equal rights between I Ithe the countries there could be no object ob object ob- ob ob-I ob for annexing territory for the trade rights would be he uniform and andI I there would be nothing to be he gained I b by annexation In other words the t motive for re-I re annexation would be he re removed removed re- re moved mo and hence there could be he no nu I object for waging a a aar war ar to extend territory I IVars Wars Vars are all commercial save and ex except ept with uncivilized races and re- re wars and when Japans Japan's expressed ex- ex j ex pressed policy polle Is for or the open door In lu China as it now appears to be the cause for a war with Japan Is probably indefinitely a and forever put at rest reat There is a cause for war as well as there I 1 a cause for everything everything everything every every- thing else Let the United States grasp rasp the real cause and stand for Cor fora Cora a final settlement of the present world conflict that will stand for the elimination of ot all war by hy removing the motive for war and then we Ve will soon toon approach the so-called so Millen Millen- tutu ium founded upon a rational and sensible basis |