The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-15
Torio, Close Friend of Mikado,
Says 1t May Last a
Century.
CONFLICT is INEVITABLE.
INTIMATED JAPAN IS STRONG MA
TON OF ORIENT AND WRONGS
DONE TO ORIENT WILL BE RE-
vENGED.

Japan Is declared inevitable Dy Wis
count Torio, japanese "elder states
man. and one of the closest friends
of the Mikado in an interview secured
by Richard Barry the war correspond
emit. to be published in the December
number of Hampton's Broadway Mag
azine.
Coming from a man Of such great
prominence, this first authoritative
prediction of huge conflict between
Occident and Orient is expected to
stir the nations of the world as has no
utterance of recent times.
VIII Turn Hair Gray.
Come and see me when you return
from the first stage Of it," said Gen.
Torio to his interviewer. Your hair
will be as gray as mine
What" said Barry. "a thirty year
war;
Perhaps a hundred replied the
Viscount "You have a great nation
and we have-well we have a great ma
ton too
Opt is it possible for nations to
fight so continuously in these modern
times" he was asked.
In the life of a nation like Japan
century is but day." said the states
man. 1--WE have existed since the
growing of the first anemone; we will
continue to exist after the reaping of
the last sunfower. And we have ex-
listed SO long for one thing-to pre-
serve our NATIONAL unity.
Family Covers All Asia.
"As a nation we are only one men,
Der Of a family That family covers
the whole continent Of Asia and all
the islands that lie near it. 1t has
many members from grandfather
China to the little bad boy in the Phil
ippines. 1t is big family, wonder
full family, and we revere it. Behind
the family we remember nothing. Be-
yond that family we see nothing
There is nothing but the family.
''All our ideas of life are based upon
the family. Thereon our civilization
is built. We are born, we live. we die
for the family The family gives us
our colossal strength, our perpetuity,
ourselves which let's us drift some
times for centuries, secure always in
the faith that IL some members of the
family may be weak or foolish, there
will always be a strong member to
fight, to maintain, to shield.
Recalls Alexander the Great.
over 1900 years ago your boy AL.
exander strayed into our back yard
He was a bright boy and venturesome
expert with the sword, and we sent
against him one who at that time was
our eldest brother, the god Xerxes.
Our elder brother fell and your
younger brother pushed on. for how
long? For breath, laugh, shy
exulting shout then he slipped, he
fell. he died. and his people scattered
and his nation persisted and We lived
on-the family triumphed
I'VE opened. we absorbed them, we
passed them out and did not know
always win. II overwhelmed, if start
led, If outwitted, we yield. we grace
fully submit-for a time-and then the
family gathers its loyal members to
gether. loosely enfolds it's entwinint
and terrible arms Hospitality about GU,
triumphant victor.
Four Times Cast Out.
"You have a family, just as we hav,
one, your family Of the Occident Fou
times in the last 1000 years has som,
member of your family strayed owe
to impose upon the rights Of our fam
lily. Four times have we cast you GU
and your marks have hardly remained
DO you think, then. that the fiftl
time you come upon us you are t.
stay, to take our lands. keep our men
remove our money? The hundred an,
fifty years you have been in India i
but day and a half in our slow famil
pride. Your decade in the Philip
pines is but the interval between
smoking cigarettes
ITO be exact, then" asked Genera
Torio's interviewer, you mean tina
Japan today is the strong nation @
Asia and that she will right tn
wrongs of all the Orient. that you vii
drive the American from the Philir
pines. the British from India, the Rus
slams from Manchuria, the Frcnc
from Indo-China and the Germans fror
kiaou Chou?"
oh! you Americans" exclaime
the old man, showing his first impt
tience and that only by the quick NOV,
ment of his eye-lashes, Ito be exac
We have driven the Russians fror
Lower Manchuria
Why Russia Was Chosen.
why did Japan choose Russia fir
among the white people?" was aske,
why does the wounded buffal,
turn on the Dogs" the statesman r.
piled, almost savagely
And yet. now that you have Kore
the natives complain more bitterl
than they did of the Russians" pc
sisted the interviewer. rs that lii
loyal member Of the family"
The old man smiled slyly
The bad young one never likes ,
be spanked"
DO you then regard so confident
conflict with American"
81 regard It as inevitable You al