THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN IMBROGLIO AND THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

NZ Truth, Issue 104, 15 June 1907, Page 1

THE JAPANESE-AMERICAN IMBROGLIO AN D THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

LoNp6n, Wednesday-.-'A 1 Tokio telegram, which 'is supposed to have ■been inspired by the Japanese Foreign Office, states that a repetition: of unprovoked assaults upon ; Japanese subjects m San Francisco, will h&y.ij- serious results m. regard to ih« . jpel-ata'prns existing^- between 'Japan /£rtsd America. ' •:.■/. The. newspapers' m San Francisco continue to, stir up trouble, and are freely predicting that the* time will como when? America must fight Japan. ■• :< , • ' It is justais well that,-, after, all the re^nt; Empire Day oock-a-doo-d'le-doc'iin^ framtic flag^ftapping, and high-fa-luti-n fla^doodling, that' ] the citizens of this Cdmmonweartlb should receive a cn.ll tb common-sense ia the shape of, a political punch: on th© pat- 1 riotic pro-bbscis. This they have received iin V. the most iinmdstakaible maivnor inTtfie above eaibLe message, _ -PU'bliSh-^d •m fest • Thursday's papers. *^ Coming as it does'- almost m, . the midst o$ Empire Day "maffiokings," it ougjht tio.act 'asa sort of, sobferamg bolus on the minds of mad ''•'m&nl'iickers," m much the same way as a couple of Cockle's Pills jact as a corrective cathartic on the' conigested liver of a (bilious ibioc-zior.. -This • -'ToMo • telegram," as. "the 1 Cockney cablecrammer . contemptuously, characterises this most momentous message, has, according ■ to the same oock-sure authority, •'"'■'•been" inspired "by the Japanese Foreign Office." It would, indeed, lb© wonderful if the message toad not 'be-Eot in-spired .--by the Japanese Foreign Office, and forwarded to London for. -the; express purpose of having notified by cable to all parts of the British Empire the ttehests of Britain's ficiovea ltftrtilo fcrowii ally. There is no doubt whatever that this message^ is/intended as a menace to the whiW streets of the British Empire m these/ seas. It is a broad hint to tli-o Afl^to-Saxon conmundtiesvimder. the. Squthern Cross' t o l keep still arwii bear 'themselves witfr'all political propriety toward the ; militant myriads' .of . Mikado /moinkey^men; unv der . pa m .of .'being chastised for their presuinstidh/ after the manner m Which Chiina and Russia haveitteen recently chastised by Japan, and as : 'Japan sedms to consider sheis. capable of ■ chastising America „ to-mor-row. • ■" : This aggressive attitude of 'Japan towards America is one of the fatal first fruits of the An&lo- Japanese alliance. It is ddr ; ectly due to that 'alliance, and is based on the arrogant but not altogether unwarrantable, assumption tlta/t Japan is the peer of any of the great Powers, not. only m political importance,, but also m mili•feary and naval strength. The. Power that could chastise China into submission m one brief naval campaiigh, and crumple up the power and 'is^p the streokth/ oi ;tlhe gr^at Russian Colossus /by lamd and, sea m.. t»wo years, is not to badespised', Japan has seme reasonable ground for regarding herself as the equal. of Powers whose recent aohiev-ements> either on land or sea, have only been as ..so, many mere mimic fights of- pigmies m comparison with bet own. To corn--pare America's destruction! of , the Spanish fleet at Cuba, or. that country's conduct of the war against the Philippines, or England's .badly . bungled 'bit of bloody buccaneering against the Boers, with Japan's marvellous military and naval victories over Russia, Jn.wAwoh she 'destroyed great aiinies. and sank big fleets as by magic,- would, Be to insult . intelligence and-' to descend to dementia. Probably Jjapan, both on land and sea, is the peer of either. England or 'America. Single-handed, she would be aJMe ta give a good account of herself against either. \ .•; ;'"-' , * • '■- Therefore, .it has to : be admitted .that the aggressive attitude which she is assuming towards America, m the matter of the alleged ill-treat-ment of Japanese m California, ia not 'altogether so, uugustifiably arrogant as it might. a:t first sight appear. In any case, there is ©o European Poweii; not even England, that .would so p^Jiaiiiifuiiy <lare tlie maK esty and mi'gjht of the greatest , republic of ancient or modern times — the iepublic of the United Stages of .. North America—as Japan is doing ; to-day. Japan could do little or no harm to America ashore, although she could, and probably would, intticb inGalgulaWe. dssnuse and lojjs. up-

on her colonies" and commerce, until such time >as America exhausted her by a defensive war or roused herself and raised a great army and navy to crush Britain's Asiatic ally. It is precisely <tbis aspect of a possible American; Japaaveses imitra^lao, and ihe actual A'aglo-Jonpanes 1 © alliance, that should compel . all sane citizens of; the British Empire, especially those of men who, m Aiustralia, are , nearest to Jajpan, to calmly conSider the real 1 and true meaning, the possible /and probable oonsa^uences to, the British Empire of this most monstrous alliance' between the leading -R&i'te Christian nation of the world and the leading coloured Paigan .nation of the world— Britain' . and Japan- ' Mealymouthed maunderinigs aWaui; En'gla'iiid'yg d'ivinelywd'ir'ected mission vto Christianise and' civilise all peoples . all over the world/or cockneyfied Kiplingisings oonoerning the oouTage of tipsy Tommy AtKiHses and swanMfiea ' swadmies, • won't suffice to satisfysensilWe men that bh£ best way to assure the safety sol the British Empire, is to make a close offensive and defensive alliiance with the militant colored myriads of fbhe Mikado of Japan.j •-' ■-•■■'• ■'.' .•. • ..-■•• .' »« '..-■ ; '■■'•■-•■• Thle instincts of -the WMte Itaoes and 'the conscience of Christian. Peoples recofffl against and reproipiaite thds- close alliance .with Colored Paganism. When the secret of the scandalous partnership leaked out, it came as a shock >( fco the comity of the white nations. While Europe was scandalised and saddened at such an aJbominable alliance, Asia and ' Africa were pleased and proud at the tbouigh't that the first of 'European. Powers aTidtme greatest of Asiatic Powers of anoient orm&ftern times, had ."been compelled to come to an understanding with one of the : hitherto muoh-despised and murderously oppressed' colored races of Asia. That this al'toanioe /between. Hngiand and , Japan was the outcome of Japaiiiese victories over. Russia could not have j lessened its significance m the esti-J mation of Asia;tics. T4iey must have { remembered that Japan had just done what England, m concert with' Prance and " Tu'rSay, had failed to do m the , Critooat-Hrieially comquered the potwer amd curtadled <j>be pretensions of ? Russi'9i—and iih-is, too', m a r^on &b& u|nj* der condi'biO'ns m iwihioh "the comibined power of Europe would probaWly tiave prdved ineffective, and a'bor.'oive. Moreover, the many millions of India, especially those other shifty, shaky Asiatic allies of England, [ the iA.fgha>ns, whose diplomatic powers of divination are not' inferior to those of any race m Asiav knew full «ell that Britain's desire for am> alliance with Japan was due, not so much to a love of Japan or a wish to protect Asiatios from Russian aggression; as to. cripple Russia's, power for evil on the Northnwest Indian: froii- '■'■"• '■' ' • ■ .« ; / .'-, (Asiatics are not fools m matters of policy or diplomacy; they are the' superiors, not t;he inferiors, of Europeans. They estimated i^e Anglos Japanese alliance at its true value, and rejoiced thereat, exceedingly, with a great: joy. Their joy was . not based on a love of England, or on a belief that England loved them;, bto't on .the knowledge that England, the great Asiatic coniqiueror and oppressor, could not do without them. Henceforth, more than ever, England's. A&iaiiic Empire must rest on Asiatic support. For the first, time m the bis-tory of-' White Chris-fcian Europe's dominatliicwi over Colored Pagan Asia, was the fact that a black, brown, or yellow man is just as good and the equal of a white man recognisedi iby an international solemn league and covenant. In ''''The Crisis" Russell Lowell sings :— When a deed is done for Freedom, through the broad Earth's aching breast Buns a thrill of joy prophetic, trembling on from East to West, ' And the slave, where'er lie cowers, feels the soul within him climb To the awful verge of manhood, as the energj~sublime . '•-.-. Of a century bursts full-blossomed on the thorny stem of Time. . ........ Shall the lAmerican. negro alone teel this thrill of joy prophetic ? Shall .the planter's slave alone feel the soul within, him -'burn, when &■ deed is done for freedom such as the emancipation of the slave through the shedding of the guilty white enslaver's blood m a fratrilcidal war between wia^mml .Why] siiaii tuft

the 'brown and yellow ■ 'Asiatic thrill and btirn at Japan's victories over Russia^ 'Must -not the hearts, 0f., .wh0. fer^p^s : #"Ssia -have thralled at th«, factories; <if: JaiiaiL 1 Whfa't a ; prestige: ; must iiot have tieeri imparted to those victories by Biiglsund's alliance with thai; Power. The result has bean to sentimentally consolidate the whole of the colored races of Asia and Africa, to nationally regenerate them, and to arouse m their heart 9 the honorable and only hope of emancipation from, to them, the damnable domination amdi outrageous oppression of England and other European invaders..

It is one of those many mendacious mistakes made 'by mercenary missionaries, and their . cut-throat -.congeners and coadjutors, /the military .''<nvaf- j fickiivg" men,, to : suppose and say/1 that the colored races love , the rule of the White Man. They detest, despise, ■ and dread the' White Man, abhor his rule, just as much as the White Man should detest, ' despise,/ and dread them and abhor their rule were it possible— as it probably ■will "be some day. not so far off, perhaps, as some of us seem for suppose—tfoajt rtflie Colored Racesshould, congiuer and oppress the White Races. It is not the color of a man's skin, nor his habitat, ttyat makes a man love freedom and hate 'oppression. There is nothing m the Book of Nature, nor m the Bible that justifies slavery , m any shape or form— nothing to sanction the savage, selfish notion that .strength gives sanction 'to slavery or the cruelty of Christian .against Pagan. Chrdstian and so-called civilising!, nations accuse the color, the country, and the cresd of Christ Himself when they claim to conquer- and dominate colored races simple fceeausotliey are colored— and weak. Christ Himself, lilfe all H-is' race; coming of Hittite stock, was a Colored Man. And those Christians who clamor for a White Australia at the front, door, and deal with a Chinaman at the back jpate, may well te asked : Did Christ die to. save all sinners, blaek--and :r; Whtite-t--If so, will there /be a color line drawn at the gate of Heaven or Hell? If not, how Can a I conscientious Christian draw it here ? These are questions ask-ed by Japanese, Chinese, Hindoos and. Africans. There being no sat-isfactory reply forthcoming, consistent with conscientious principle , and profession, to these cnuestions, ihe patriotic, philosophical Pagans despise our religion, and- detest those who profess, and pretend to find an it „, ddvlue warrant tor all their brutal and bloody deeds. ■«•■. • ■ ■ ■ But let us moralise no more, but proceed to point? out that commensurate, with the impression produced on Asiatic public opinion by the Anglo- Japaneste .. trea-ty, was; that produced m Eurppe. <Ln both hemispheres,, the effect of this allianjce tetween v a White Christian- and a Colored Pagan power was most disastrous to England.. Europe felt and believed, and knew -that she had been duped, deofflvefl, and over-reach-ed. While that Imperial Impostor "Judas "-Joe •' Chamberlain was mouthing about England's "splendid isolation" England was concluding a treaty with an Asiatic powex, secretly, aiid behind the backs of those European powers With whom she< pretended to 'be acting m consort with m the Far East. The worst feature of this alliance was that at bound En#land to assist Colored Pagan Japan against, any White Christian Power that might attack her, no matter what might be the cause or reason of. that attack. Is it any wonder ' that Eagland . Has enemies m Europe as well as m; Asia and Africa ? . But , England's callousness with regard -to'" the Christian sentiment of Europe m this matter was as nothing., to. her tr/uculent treachery towards the white, population of these States., of New Zealand and Canada, arid these of South Aftida. Never before was there such a base, brutal, and bloody betrayal, as 'that by which the rascally renegade Chamberlain cajoled these States and colonies to 'give- the best and bravest of our manhood m order to sustain a White Ohristian Emoire m Southi Afria'a apfcvilnst the Wihi'ts Christian Boers, and then sold the White Workers to? the Jews of Jo'bur.q;, for a mere, mess "of Chinese pottage ! The shock of this supreme piece of treachery to the .White Workers of the Empire— especially those of this Commonwealth and New Zealand— was even more severe than that sus^tained by the White Christian Powers of Europe on the discovery of the perpetration by Joe Chamberlain and Co. .of that perfidious piece of political trickery, the Angilo-Japamese Treaty of Alliance. * « . » Now, the average 'Japanese is much better aaciualimte/a with .tih-ese^hinpjs, and Has a keener appreciation of their sinister significance than the average English "Mamcker,?' or the ordinary White 1 Australian .patriot. This knowledge, may perhaps, go a long, way to explain the arrogance of the attitude of Japan towards America,' To all thg world powers she would

seem to; say, "Noli -me tangere," for am I not: more 'than equal than . Am' i/not the firsirtard" only ■Pother thajt what the' vgreatest . qf iti 'concert airtempted, ■, •but' railed '.: to' accomplish ; pulled down, and crippled for a century the' ' G-reat Russian' Bear . But Japan dd&s ''not', starid alone, nor on 'her own merits .alone'; 'she can ap- , peal for recognition as an equal among the white .- Christian nations of the" world as/ the political and military and naVal partner of Brir tain- Surely, what is good enough' for Ohrifft-ian WJiite England ousht to be ygoodV enough fo<r the rest of White Europe, and the whole df ; the British Empire, white or black,\ brown' or yellow; Australia lincluded. MSatis supe'rquel" With ecji|aL' reason may Japan ask what r%lit; does the ■ Uut ited' States .of America, with many milliohs of a degraded black • pooulatioiy m, 'her midst,-, presume . to peij'alise, .ban and 'exclude the little brown men; subjects the great military sea powei'y Japan, the conqueror /of Russia, the; ally of England, .and therefore - 'the ' equal o-E Aniei'iea. "A " fcrJrtiofci'.'-.jnay not and will not Japan want to know .by what law/or "... -right, or -claim of reaso?i Aiisitralia—a^ metre | white speck m the v g£>ea-t : Maclcir blot of colored Empire— presumes; tqrexclude Japanese, the subjects, of that great Asiatic powei with '{Which is m close treaty alliance. ■"'■

How the . astute, • Japanese must laugih' at' ■■the L&foor League's clamor for a White;.' Australia when they remembdr- with 1 ! What insane and insensate'•' jubilations '' Japanese victories over Russia were hailed m this country. , .With what supreme contempt . muS'i. they- sneer m their sleeves > at tM&WMfe Australia ideal, ' when, /thay- recall tile^public rejoic-j in2;s ( , press , felicitations, and political ' py roteohuics, wi tli which . the conclusion of. .'the; Anslo-Japaiwse treaty was celebrated m this White Christian Comnion^alth— God Wot ! Above all, hbw BUsjt these brave and-- •galla'ht; . Japanese ;' tie* ; , spew ' ouiti of 'their moulisjat ib'e very name of ;a White "Australia, when they remember how the men of Australia flittered' , and fawned upon them, ahdv how. the matrons and maids q'f Australia extatically enitjhus.ddi iovjejr ttem and ajmotr,ously admired them. All' these things the Japanese Government knows, either of itself, or through the medium of the Australian press, or that of • Japanese spies, or the Japanese coaSul, who, by. the by, . but a few' nicnt'hs ago, could hardly showi his face m public, at any function, or even go to the theatre withoiit being enthusiastically cheered by a "mafiickine" mob, who' might the next minute >be bellowing for a White Australia— the antipodean asses?' Japans troubles about Australia, white or any other color. Her troubles are with America, .where- the Japanese are now teing treatadi .with greater indignity ,-. than' the Chinese. : Rightly .or wrongly, it is here that Japan seems to think that she must make a stand, and, if need; be, strike a' blow for the sta-. tus of her citizens, "as subjects of a first-rate power, .and the leader of the: Pan-Asian accord. Whether she is '■.presuming so far as Regards America remains to te' seen. In j any event Australia .gives her small if any concern at all: This Commonwealth, with its paltry , three aiid a-half miillions of population, practically defenceless, is to Japan but a very dependent dependency ~of the British Empire, with . which she is m alliance. Australia m its disgracefully defenceless, and dependent stote, could nei^lser . trouble the British Empire nor resist Japan. If she attempted to do either, a demonstration" on the part of ; Japan with the concurrence and connivance of England, her ally, would soon cure, this Commonwealth of its White 1 Australia mania. Such is the parlous state to which the Imperial idiocy of Empire Day. flag-flapping and bloody Boer-baiting "mafficking" has brought Australian patriotism, f ■ * ■ • • ■■ : .•/ ■- : No ; White Australia . doesn't count m the present "contretemps" •tietiweßn , America ■• and . Japan. It is Australia's duty. and interest t 0 stand still and- silent, while Japan, England's ally , and . equal, attempts under the v sign of het Anglo-Saxon alliance to bully and bounce 1 the great white Angilo-Saxon Ohristian EngWsh-speakinfi- (republic of America. England m sheer ' shame-fa/;ed honesty has to stand by, and seem to countenance the attempt of her Asiatic ally to ' compel America, her natural ali^— m race, -language, • and religion —to concede privileges and rights to Japanese m America "which are refused to them m A'ustra-lia. In America there are - eigitty-fiye millions ■; of people, constituting the most powerful progressive and uroduotive nation , the world ever saw. m Australia there are less than lour millions of people, practical!-"- defenceless, and but m. the threshold of progress, and m the infancy of production. We may well.be sure that both America and Japan have marked the monstrous anomaly revealed by this glaring . contradictory contrast. America may well say to Japan y<yu go first i>6 Australia, ade-

aendency of England, your .ally, -2nd compel tfcem , tp coacede • what you Hem'Snia from us', and ."them we'll .consider your .cla-im. Ait present you 'baVe no right] to claim, from. America that which you are denied m Australia. On , the other, hand, -Japan may well reconsider her /fiosition, and ask herself, why shall . I demand from a mighty nation like the United States recognition of claims that I ca«not or will not enforce upon Australia, by virtue of my alliance with England. Should Japan "resclve upon-, such a ;.co.urse.' ■ on which side> would > England stand: tha,t o! a White Australia; '■ or "the recognition of 'her Asiatic ally's claims ? Lot England's , action m fter the Boer war m regard to the substitution- of the Chinese -for White Labor , on' the Rand provide an answer. Meanwhile, .American newspapers are saying that America must ficht Japan, sooner { or later.' When that fight ensues it will, he the. bat- . ile of Armaigeddon. -fcetween Western and Eastern civilisation. In that j battle Britain must stand by herj race and religion; should she elect' to fipht against her own creed aiWl Color,, ah-e will reap what sh»J will nicMy deserves national death. , , JOHN NORTON, SydneV. . May 31st, 1907. '