The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-22

free religion, free education, and free
commerce for 600, 900, 600 souls that
live on this side of the globe, while
her defeat and China's victory shall
mean-what, let our reader judge to
himself
In the war that carries such signific-
ances like these, what friend OF human
ity shall not wish God-speed to Japan
and her cause? Let America ask this
question TO herself,-America who
first led us to light and civilization, as
Japan is now trying to do the same
with korea-and the spirit of her Pill
grim Fathers, of Lincoln and Sumner
and other heroes shall in unison join
the cause that we represent here and
now. Let England do likewise and
her Simon de Montfort, Hampden and
Cromwell and Puritan divines, her
Wilberforce and Golden and Bright,
and all who loved liberty and equal
ity shall be Japan's unfailing friends.
Let France do likewise; and her La
fayette and Mirabeau, Victor Hugo of
recent date, COligny and his Huguenot
followers, and all her chivalric hdterS
of despOtism, shall be the supporters
OF the smaller and newer. Let Ger
many do likewise; and her Luthers
and Lessings and Schillers, and inn
mortal Goethe, who asked for "mOre
light" and all her watchers upon
the Rhine," shall one and all be wish
ers of Japan's victory in the East. Let
Italy do likewise; and her Dante and
Savonarola, RienZi and Arnold of
Brescia, Garibaldi and Victor Imman-
uel,-all her souls of intense sincerity,
whose kinship in temperament we
lm,-shall in no wise side with our
enemy that means oppression and ig-
norance in the East. And finally let
our good Slavonic neighbor do like
wise; and though yet with her Siber-
ion exile, and press laws far from lib
eral was not the aim of her mighty
founder the enlightenment of the
human race? From the Russia of
Peter the Great we can expect hearty
sympathy, and il need be, even cooper
alton, in our present attempt to civil
ize Asia. Yea more, let the Universe
ask this question to itself, and see
whether it doomed the half of the
human race to the lethargy of the Chi
nese civilization by keeping them for
ever under the Mantchu rule. 1t was
the late Louis Kossuth of Hungary
who said that in his opinion the two
greatest men of the nineteenth century
were Prince Bismarck and the emperor
of Japan. He said this because of the
mighty work inaugurated by our
worthy sovereign, not only for his
people, but for the millions of the
benighted Asia as well. japan is the
champion of progress in the East, and
who except her deadly foe-China, the
incorrigible hater of progress-wishes
not victory to Japan
Yet in thus calling upon the nations
of the world to see and understand the
cause we fight for, we are not begging
them for their help in the conflict.
The struggle is too glorious one to be
shared with other nations, and we
single-handed like to fight it to the
end. Sympathetic neutrality is all
we ask from them at present. Let
Japan have this opportunity of serv-
ing the world, as she has been served
by it too long in too many things.
We began by saying that the war
we entered upon is a righteous war.
That it is so shall be evident as soon
SIS we shall have reached its end. We
took up the cause of our poverty
stricken neighbor, and that nothing
of material profit shall accrue to us
from helping her is more than evident.
Then from China, too, we shall exact
no more than the just price of the
blood we shed, as her prostration is
not our aim, but her coming to con-
sciousness of her own worth and duty,
and to friendly cooperation with us in
the reformation of the East. Thus,we
fight with eternal peace in view, nd
Heaven bless our bleeding ones as
they fall in this holy war. Never be-
fore in our history has the nation been
fired with nobler aim, and now as
one man we march to meet our foe,
knowing
whether on scaffold high,
Or in battles ban
The fttest place where man can die
l. 4.