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Nome, Alaska, October 9, 191(1.
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KKI.ATIONS WSTH JAPAN.
Klbert H. Gary
the guest Oi hor.or
Tokio given by men
litual and commerc
lust month was i
at a banquet in i
high in the po-:
.ial life of Nip- i
pon.
He said that the relations between
th- Ur.i: ' States and Japan were
amicable and should remain so.
Statements were oi asionally heard
as to the possibility of a conflict he- ;
tween tin United States and Japan,
but Gary said that the business men
in the United States did not antiei
pate trouble.
That was very reassuring. And
it is safe to say if the business men
in the United States do not want
war, there will be no war.
Gary spoke however as if wars
were deliberate personal things
brought about by political ami indi
vidual malignity, or ill-will spon
taneously developed in one people
for another. He spoke of w ar as
he judged it by the apparent aspect
of causes of war. And lie concluded
that because there was little senti
ment one way or another as yet in
pro ess of development in this coun
try for a war witli Japan, such a
war is not possible.
But nations are just the sport ot
certain e< onomie forces that are de
veloped in the course of their indus
trial development, and all war:, have
had at their basis with hardly an
exception, economic causes to force
them into existence’.
Accordingly if we are to judge
what will be the condition of things
•as regards peace or war between the
United Stat s and Japan, we have to
,-on..hi' r the economic forces and
their posin'. ■ development. If the
. ( onomie interests of the United
States dash with those oi Japan and
those of Japan clash witli those ol
ibe United States, whatever may be
i!,e present time opinions of the in
dividuals in both nations, war is
sootier or later inevitable.
We believe tnat uermany count
have maintained a gigantic army
lor years and began the construc
tion of the mightiest navy in the
world, yet had not the German com
merce proved wonderfully efficient
and German industry encroached
upon the profits of the other na
tions, Germany would have been at
peace today. Pacificists usually ex
agerate the serious nature of the
threat against peace which is to he
found in gigantic militarist estab
lishments. Unless the economic "in
terests of a country with such estab
lishments clash with those of others,
peace may remain indefinitely the
normal condition of things.
Now the United States is a world
power. But it is more than a world
power, it is making efforts to be
come the greatest industrial, com
mercial and financial power in the
world. That ambition whether
laudable or not, involves the over
flowing of the national barriers with
industrial, commercial and financial
activities, and these must meet in
the whirl of internationalism other
commercial, financial and industrial
activities which have distinctly diff
erent designs.
The most alluring of the markets
of the world, and one wherein all
nations have laid claim to meet
upon terms of absolute commercial
financial and industrial equality, is
China.
It is over the exploitation of
China where the interests of Japan
and the United States may very
reasonably clash. The promoters ot
a greater Japan have never looked
kindly upon the idea of an Ameri
can foothold on Asiatic territory.
The acquisition of the Phillipines
-clashed with the conttnenial aspira
tions of a powerful Asiatic people
like the Japanese.
The Monroe doctrine specifically
prevents Japan from obtaining any
foothold upon the American conti
nent, and that is put forward by the
very nation, refuses to recognize any
CQnfinemppt for its imperialist desti
ny within the limits of the western
hemisphere.
It is not impossible that Japanese
-statesmen have evolved within their
minds some such conception as ap
plied to Asia, as the United States
put into documentary form and ap
plied by President Monroe to Amer
ica, although the elementary moral
ity of international diplomacy is cer
tainly based upon the principle of a
quid pro quo. As long as Japan is
denied territory in the Americas, it
is not likely to view the acquisition
of Asiatic soil by an American na
tion without an acute sense of
wrong and inujsiice, nationally anti
internationally speaking.
consequently there has been a pro
nounced eli'ort made to corral the
markets of China, by compelling for
Japan as a dominant Asiatic power,
a most favored nation treatment in
the rigidly exclusive sense. And
the little frictions that disturbed
the soul of Yuan Shi Kai before he
joined his much worshipped ancest
ors were due entirely to the emphatu
and energetic demands of Japan for
such prior rights for Nippon
throughout China.
It is not insignificant that the
Japanese demands have been the
subject of diplomatic conversations
or notes between the United States
and China and between the United
States and Japan. Just at the pre
sent time the pastime of killing one
another off which is engaging the
!,rains and tlie brawn of Europe has
resulted in the unusual productivity
j of American industries finding an
'abnormal outlet. Hence umna is nui
i of immediate concern. It was mere
: lv prudent foresight upon the part
of government on behalf of the Am
. erican profiteers that induced it to
I manifest some concern In the matter
; of what a great Englishman has
| . ailed the “Open Door '. However
| when the European seance of
murder and capitalist atrocity has
I winded itself before a disgusted au
dience, and the American industrial
and commercial over-lords like Alex
i under will sigh for other world
markets to conquer, we may reason
ably expect that China will engagr
*.he attention of their minds. Then
will begin an interesting competition
between Nippon ana America wmen
may very easily lead the American
business men to regard a war with
Japan in not quite so unfavorable
light. They will have little to lose.
They have their munition plants
awaiting government contracts, they
will be eager to advance to the Am
erican government cash at so much
per cent to provide new sinews for
an American War God; not having
to fight themselves except on pa
per and through the editorial pages
of the press they control, they can
very cheerfully and patriotically en
ter upon a war with light heart. The
sacrifice of a million men is not so
serious a matter when the industrial
loss of life through accident, indus
trial disease or poverty induced by
the system is now quite as extensive
and peace is some death dealer it
self. And it is wonderful how calm
ly one can observe the slaughter ot
the battlefields and the materializa
tion of hell upon earth when one
reads reports of it in a comfortable
chair in a comfortable room, re
moved then from the annoying in
conveniences of even the wind and
weather.
We can go away back in history
to discover the fact that since
wealth accumulation became the
reason for a nation’s existence, pro
fit has been the cause of war. Its
economic basis is unmistakable. And
when any nation devotes itself to
an international trade it follows ine
vitably that international complica
tions sooner or later result.
Great Britain has not a market
today which has not been Lite sub
ject of a war, whether that be a
colony which is self governing or
governed by the Crown. And no
tion can attempt to spread out with
out its ambitions to accumulate
wealth through trade provoking a
clash sooner or later with other na
tions inspired with the same exalt
ed devotion to the God of Coin.
It is therefore an exhiliratingly
patriotic notion for the workers tn
understand that it is their precloui
destiny to sacrifice their bodies dur
ing peace to the profiteers and tc
provide ample fighting material ir
time of war that the profits of theli
employers may be long either tr
their own or some other man’s land
They can then take a more exalted
conception of their function in this
life, not being altogether brothers
_ _ ' ■ «
:o the ox, who are nowadays denied
:he privilege of the arena, and have
but to work and eat and sleep.
Surely an analysis of the lofty de
stiny that industrial and military
preparedness has mapped out for the
toiler is calculated to make us all
more contented with our lot as such.
The system produces patriots ready
made.
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FROM ALASKA
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Election, November 7, 1910.
I Oil DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
FROM ALASKA
Lena Morrow
Lewis
Socialist Party Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1910.
FOR ATTORENY GENERAL
TERRITORY OF ALASKA.
George B. Grigsby
Election, November 7, 1910.
I'OR SENATOR:
Thos. M’Qarm
For Re-Election.
Election, November 7, 1916.
I'OR REPRESENTATIVE:
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Election, November 7, 101G.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE:
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Independent Candidate.
Election, November 7, 1010.
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Election, November 7, 1010.
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Election. November 7, 1010.
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Election, November 7, 1010.
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Election, November 7, 1010. ,
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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Election, November 7, 1910.
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For Re-EIictlon.
Election, November 7,
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