The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-22
FROM A JAPANESE STANDPOINT.
Tho Cause Of the Present War is
Given in Full.
THE JAPANESE RELUCTANT.
RELUCTANT.
As Nation. They Do Not Wish to
Wage War With the Chinese-Con-
slant Afronts offered by China
Forced the Conflict Upon Them.

The following account of the
causes leading up to the Japanese
Chinese war, was written by Japan
ese and published in pamphlet form
We believe that the Korean war now
opened between Japan and China to
be righteous aCar, righteous we say,
not only in legal sense, for legalities
can be manufactured as sophistries of
all kinds, but righteous in moral sense
as wei, the only kind of righteous
ness that can justify any war. Such a
war is not new with US, and we with
our light have believed in it and fought
it. "Heathenism'' if dark is earnest,
and it may yet retain enthusiasm
which Christendom may have lost
with its superstitions. a sort of chiv-
alric spirit is yet with US, spirit akin
to Spartan courage, and Roman valor
to crush the proud; and a righteous
war is still possible with us.
That Japan as a nation has entered
only very reluctantly upon the pres
ent conflict must be acknowledged by
all the intelligent observers of our late
situation. Guided by very asraaoa,'-
like cabinet, at the time of the great
est prospects for it's internal prosperity,
war was thing most to be avoided,
and if "lusts" were our primary aims,
no-wars should be our first and last
policy. But China behaved against
us, now for more than score of years,
as unneighbOrly and insolently as We
have ever been able to bear in our
history. The Great Saigo had seen
this long before, and his sanguine de-
sire for it's immediate chastiSement
cost him his life, and the nation ter
rible civil war. Indeed aCe killed ON.
oaOo that zoe might dUoid conflicts sOitt
oar neighbOr, so desirOus have we
been of peace. But how did China
act against us in 1882, and again in
1884, and ever since? Constant affront-
ary against us in Korea by its con-
slant interference with our friendly
policy with that nation. While we
labored to open it to the world, China
labored to close it; and by imposing
upon it the Mongolian regime of its
own, has endeavored to keep it part
of it's own-a hermit nation like its
and worlds progress. For the last
ten years, Japan who first introduced
it to the world was no more than an
unwelcome guest at its court, while
China who came after reigned su-
preme over all its affairs 1t is COM
mon case Of social incivility that aims
to turn ones affection from its trusted
friend to win it over by constant fav-
ors meant to satisfy his baser natures.
We bore this as matter too puerlle
to be made cause to bring about an
open rupture of peace; and the nation
that promised to be another rising
star of the East has remained to this
day an occult star, with its resources
ali sealed, and bribery and misgOvern-
ment walking out in open daylight.
What man with human heart could
bear the treatment given to the body
of poor Kin, an acknowledged guest of
the Japanese nation, assassinated up
on the Chinese soil by an emissary of
the China Korean government! The
body and the assassin were sent over
to Korea By one of CbinG's OaCn getlo-
boats to be delivered over to kln's
enemies, the body to be mutilated for
exposure throughout the land, and
the assassin to beloaded with all kinds
of honors. Should this go unpun-
lSLcu, ILLS open VI "-'J
defense of savagery, desecration of
humanity? And when the Tunghioh
rebellion broke out in Southern Korea
itself a result of misgOvernment
conducted under Chinese interference
how ridiculous to induce its puppet
government to call for aid from the
s'Motherland," to bind it more by OBJ
legations that the country needed not,
as was proved soon afterward! China
has incapacitated Korea to keep 1t al
ways her hanger-on-the meanest bit
of International policy that we know
of in history. 1t is the very same pol
icy pursued by pan1erly wretch to
keep his victims always poor and de-
pendent that he might profit and
glory thereby. Some fifteen millions
of helpless souls kept ignorant and de-
fenseless to satisfy the jealousy of the
worlds mcst backwa nation-cOuld
this be borne by lovers of freedom and
reverers of human rights! We only
wised that We were not the first TO
raise our voice against this evil, that
more Christian nations than We had
taken the matter into their hearts,
long before we did, to heal this "Open
sore of the world
But right here Legality steps in and
argues with US that we have no right
to interfere with Korean affairs any
more than China has; that we in
sending our troops there are just as
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