Taft, at Mr. Knox and at the American army and navy,
by the Jingoists and Chauvinists, supported or led by many
of the most prominent men in Japan.'

To a certain extent the hostile sentiment aroused in
Japan and so vehemently expressed, was spontaneous, but
to a much greater extent it was generated from official
and semi-official sources. It was then, and it is still, used
by the bureaucratic authorities as the basis of constant
and insistent demands for military and naval expansion.
The furnace of popular indignation was deliberately fanned
by the militarists for the rolling of armour-plate and the
drawing of heavy cannon. The campaign for increased
armaments has taken a notable progress since this incident.
America is openly referred to as the enemy to be faced in
the future,^ and the sole reason for this is the belief, incul-
cated from the highest ranks of officialdom, that America
is deliberately bent on putting the brake on Japan's
ambitions in China. In the end I believe that Japan will
find that she has sacrificed her future to the satisfaction
of the small and temporary dealings of the present.
Bismarck regarded a correct political eye as being at least

' For details see Peace or War East of Baikal, by E. J. Harrison (Kelly
& Walsh, Yokohama, igio), a, valuable work on Far Eastern conditions
from 1907 to 1910.
