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REVIEW OF REVIEWS. 



December 1, 1913. 



fused to issue passports to any Japanese 

 bound for Hawaii, so that for many 

 years no Japanese have come to Hawaii, 

 it being the policy of Japan not to per- 

 mit any of her citizens to go to any 

 country where they are not welcomed. 



California, on the other hand, brought 

 in legislation which was insulting to 

 Japanese, and has been deeply resented 

 in the Mikado's kingdom, has even 

 brought the two countries within measur- 

 able distance of war. 



Both Chinese and Japanese speakers 

 at the Hands-Around banquets have 

 stated that they gladly accepted the 

 policy of a White Australia because they 

 believed thoroughly in a yellow China 

 and Japan. Neither Japan nor China 

 wanted foreign residents or the foreign 

 investor." Let America and Australia 

 refuse to allow Japanese or Chinese 

 settlers, but let them also see that their 

 own nationals did not exploit either 

 China or Japan. 



Japan is eager to receive and entertain 

 the tourist, and Japan and Australia 

 should work together to exchange, urge 

 their tourists to journey round the Pacific 

 so that they can enjoy beautiful Japan 

 and investigate the business possibilities 

 of energetic Australia. 



This is practically the position taken 

 by the Hands-Around-the-Pacihc Clubs, 

 that the people of the Pacific agree to 

 work together where they can, and not 

 to annoy each other because of a lack 

 of understanding of facts which are 

 more likely to be generally known by a 

 drawing together in a friendly way, than 

 by keeping aloof and nursing suspicion 

 instead of seeking a friendly under- 

 standing. With Japan, Australia and 

 the whole Pacific agreed on the friendly 

 preservation of a White Australia and 

 North America, and a yellow China and 

 Japan, the whole Pacific can easily get 

 together in a tremendous movement to 

 co-operate on the advancement of the 

 material interests of the countries about 

 the Great Ocean. 



China, in developing her boundless 

 resources, will take millions of her half- 

 billion population from the tillage of 



the soil to develop her factories, mines 

 and railways. Her standard of living 

 must necessarily rise. James J. Hill, of 

 the Great Northern Railway, saw the 

 possibilities of this, and established the 

 propaganda in China that increased the 

 exports, mostly food stuffs, from 

 America to China some thirty or forty 

 million dollars. The whole north-west 

 of the United States benefited as did 

 China. Japan having raised her stan- 

 dard of living, is now a good buyer of 

 Australian wool and other products. 

 The half-billion Chinese, with their stan- 

 dard of living raised to a similar ratio 

 would mean that Great Britain and 

 America would have to send millions of 

 Anglo-Saxons to Australasia to raise 

 food products and other necessities for 

 the new Orient. A few more million 

 people on the Pacific coast of North 

 America would make every large or 

 small farmer and dairy producer of Aus- 

 tralasia wealthier. Whatever tends to 

 the prosperity of one country of the 

 Pacific makes prosperity for all ; an un- 

 natural depression brought to one 

 Pacific land would be felt entirely 

 around the ocean. The Hands-Around- 

 the-Pacific movement merely realises 

 that the people of the Pacific must work 

 together for the Pacific. 



The Hands-Around-the-Pacific move- 

 ment is worthy of the whole-hearted sup- 

 port of every Australian. We are in- 

 tensely patriotic, but we are also emin- 

 ently sensible. It entails no loss of pres- 

 tige to hold out the hand of friendship 

 to our neighbours, instead of shaking 

 our mailed fist under their noses. If we 

 ear-marked, sa\-, one-twentieth of the 

 sum we devote to warlike preparations 

 annually, to a real endeavour to bring 

 about a better understanding between 

 the Pacific nations and ourselves, the 

 costly armaments we are so painfully 

 building up will never be needed. 



So convinced are we that the best de- 

 fence of Australia is not w^eapons but 

 friendship that we intend to do all we 

 can to promote the idea of the Hands- 

 Around-the-Pacific movement in Aus- 

 tralasia. 



