The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-03
FOOLISH TALK OF WAR.


living in anything he undertakes here.
FOOLISH TALK OF WAR.
Some feather-headed correspondents
i'm Washington are sending out vivid
and realistic reports of the administra-
tons fear that Japan will declare war
on the United States. suddenly and
without any preliminary discussion.
According to these wild-eyed descend
ants Of Ananias, the Japs have ar
ranged loan with a great European
power which is anxious to see the Unit
ed States annihilated, and it is only a
question OF hours before the news will
be flashed around the world that the
Philippines. Hawaii, Guam and all the
other possessions of this country on the
Asiatic side have fallen into the
clutches of the mikado. Thousands of
Japanese soldiers. these veracious
scribes aver, have been entering the
Philippines and Hawaiian islands with
no other purpose than the fulfllment of
deep, dark plot to begin war Cali
fornia and Oregon and Washington
have been colonized with the fiery war
riors Of Japan, Mexico's border has
been fairly lined with them, presuma-
bly, an army is ready to descend upon
Alaska and. on a few minutes notice,
the navy of the brown terrors will be
prepared to seize, San Francisco, includ-
ing the Barbary coast
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What is, all the bother about?
Haven't you heard? Really?
Didn't you know that San Francisco
had refused to let japanese pupils.
some of them of mature years, attend
the same schools with white children.
but had provided separate schools for
the children Of Asiatic parents? And
that the president of the United States.
regarding this exclusion as violation
Of treaty with Japan. had promised
to use all the forces of the United
States. civil. legal. military and naval,
IL need be, to secure Japans treaty
rights?
To be sure, no white child is admitted
to the public schools of Japan, and no
show of justice is possible for a for
eigner in civil suit in Japan against
a native. 1t matters very little that
CALIFORNIA; school system is none of
Japans businessmen the presidents.
either. for that matter. War must
come. and come quickly. and the insult
to a friendly nation be wiped out in
b-l-l-u-d-d!
Either the correspondents who send
out the twaddle about the danger Of
war take the whole American nation
for fools. or else they are inspired by
some one who has an Interior purpose.
Japan knows enough about war by re-
cent experience to realize the cost i'm
men and money. tt knows, moreover,
something of the resources. in men and
money. of this nation; and it Is ruled
by statesmen who would not undertake
such war as the alarmists are declar-
ing, because the conflict could only end
in the bankruptcy Of Japan, no matter
what harm Il inflicted on the United
States.
Still further. no European nation
cares TO be involved in such a world
wide disaster as a war between Japan
and this country would produce. The
United States feeds Europe; it's cotton
is indispensable TO Europe and Asia
alike: its metals. its grain, it's meats
supply large part of the necessities
of industry and living on the continent.
Great Britain, Japan's ally, has already
intimated unofficialiy that it's treaty OF
alliance does not contemplate any Of
fensive operations against English
speaking peoples. Germany has trout
bles enough on the continent 10 occupy
IL without being entangled i'm an Amer
lean conflict. Russia certainly would
not be In position to furnish funds or
forces to help Japan II il wished to.
France. Spain. Italy and Austria are
negligible quantities.
OF course there is nothing to prevent
Japan from initiating a war on its own
responsibility if it wished to. and it
might do enormous damage to this
country If II undertook IT, But even
with trainsd army and a great navy
of unusual efficiency the Japs would
find a conflict with this country an al
together different proposition from the
short war with Russia which was hope
llcsslv handicapped by incom petent Of