Show NOT A FIGHTING MATTER MATTERi Is 15 i Iho tho average American disposed to lo think thai thal If Russia and Japan with wIlh the assent of China Chinn conclude to lo iun things In Manchuria to the thc practical monopoly of oC her trade we weare arc are called upon to bristle up IP about It I and talk about keeping tho the door to that trade open by Ily 11 force A country which like this builds a protective wall about a oll Its i own trade trad haS ImS no business 10 to get excited in its Iii iL 1 I demand lemond for fOl an open door to other peo peoples ples pIes trade preserves If H economic protection is good for MB 18 It Is good for other people It l would hive have come to a pretty pass lass if lf f Germany and England which used to 10 have a largo trade with Wah Hawaii had bIll b nd demanded the open door lOOr to that acquisition when whon we shut them out or 01 equal trade privileges in Cuba when we protected ours there by bya I a system of preferential duties and talked force face as u an iii alternative Then the tho of the tio would have been heard beard all the way from the Aurora Bo Borealis real is to 10 the Southern Cross What Wiit we she give we must lake take If J f the governments In control of Man Manchuria lan churia churla want to hold its trade they can prove proe tho the right to do so by hy our ou own principles and our OtI own prece precedents I dents To io even cn hint hl i at i an appeal 1 to the thelast last resort of o nations IB is II to invite oth others others ers erB to lo do 10 the lie same toward us ml usAnd 1 And nd what is more all the trade of r all Manchuria would wol w ld not nol in tu a con cen century tury dory compensate America for fora a a great war Such a k conflict would mean a vast new debt a return of our penson pension list to Its old oid proportions possibly entangling entangling entangling gling alliances and probably the cre creation creil il on of the United States Into a mod orn naval and military power with alj the thc dreadful burdens such a condition would imply We Ie want nothing of the kind and arid if Jf 1 we w would be consistent we must let others occupy occum their fields of enter enterprise enterprise enterprise prise as we fill ours and never noel get gel j I Ith tho th notion that thul when we have to take tale I i our own ow medicine medi lne it necessarily means a rupture of the worlds peace San I Francisco r Chronicle I |