Arizona republican., 1908-11-14
The Clash Between Japan and
 America inevitable HUNDRED YEAR CONFLICT
The Yellow Race, In. the Opinion of Viscount Torio, Friend of the Mikado, Will Humble the White and
 Have Things All Its Way.

New York, Nov. 9.-(Special cor respondenc of The Republican.)- War between Japan and the United States is inevitable" is the startling declaration made by General Wis count TOrio, Japanese elder states man and one of the closest counsel ors to the mikado. Not only is it inevitable but, on the same prophetic authority. it will last not three. Ror thirty, but perhaps a hundred years and will be the greatest war in the history of mankind. General Torio makes this bold prophecy in an in terview secured by Richard Barry. the well known war correspondent, in the December Hampton's Broad way Magazine. It is a remarkable utterance coming. as it does, from a man of such great prominence. Cen eral Torio is the first authoritative voice of Japan to predict war with America. As to the length of the predicted conflict, the Seer of Atami, as the magazine article entities him, said:
 Come and see me when you re turn from the first stage of it Your hair will be as gray as mine"
 What! A thirty years war;"
 Perhaps a hundred" he answered. You have a great nation. and we have-well-we have a nation, too
 But is it possible for nations to fight so continuously in these mod ern days?'
 In the life of a nation like Japan a century is but a day. We have existed since the growing of the first anemOne; we will continue to exist after the reaping of the last sun flower. And we have existed so long for one thing-to preserve our na- tional unity
 As nation we are only one member of a family. That family covers the whole continent of Asia and all the islands that lie nearby. It has many members, from the old grandfather in China, to the little bad boy in the Philippines. It is a big family, a wonderful family. and We revere it. Behind the family we remember - nothing; beyond that family we see-nothing. There is nothing but the family. All our ideas of life are based upon the Ldllllg lltLtlD our GlNlALdltOu lS built We are born, we live. we die for the family; the family gives us our colossal strength, our perpetuity. And it also gives us that easy re- liance in our selves which lets us drift, sometimes for centuries. secure always in the faith that if some members of the family may be weak or foolish, there will always be strong member to fight, to maintain the shield.
 "Over two thousand years ago your boy, Alexander, strayed into our backyard He was a bright boy and venturesome, expert with both swords, and we sent against hin: one who at that time was our elder brother, the good Xerxes. Our elder brother fell and your younger broth CT pushed on; for how long? For a breath, a laugh, shy, eXulting shout; then he slipped, he fell, he died. and his people are scattered, and his nation perished, and we lived on. the family triumphant. We opened, we absorbed them. We passed them out and did not know that they had come. And therein we al ways win. If overwhelmed, if start led, if outwitted. we yield, we grace fully submit-for a time-and then the family gathers it's loyal mem bers together, loosely enfolds it's en- twining and terrible arms, hospit- ably. about our triumphant victor.
 You have a family, just as we have one, your family of the Occi- dent, and four times in the last two thousand years has some member of your family strayed over to impose upon the rights of our family. Four times have We cast you out and your marks have hardly remained.
 Do you think, then, that the fifth time you come upon us you are to stay to take our lands, keep our men. remove our money? The hun dred and fifty years you have been in India is but a day and a half in our slow family pride, your decade in the Philippines but the intervale between the smoking of cigarettes"