The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-03-10
hive whore they please"

live where they please"
1t is only too evident that these
warlike utterances are part of cam
paign in the interest of merchant
marine and have subsidy kite at
tachcd to them. Mr.. Shaw believes
that the national treasery can be loot
ed more easily by throwing a scare In.
to the American people. But all the
Japanese do not understand this and
IL alarms and distresses them to learn
that such language has been used by
n former member of presidents
cabinet. They attach more Importance
to 1t than it deserves and the more
fiery spirits proceed TO stir up their
own race, brave ana martial race.
The way to bring on a war is to be
always talking about one and pre-
dieting 1t as inevitable.
Fortunately, there are other in
flueuces at work in this country that
make for peace and DO much to pre-
vent the Hobsons and Shaws from
leading this nation into an unneces-
sary conflict with Japan. At a dinner
given by the Knife and Fork club in
Kansas City a few nights ago one OF
the guests was Miss Eliza r. Scidmora
who has lived long in Japan and
knows the people well. She addressed
the CLUB and used her opportunity to
tell her hearers that the Japanese are
for peace and are particularly averso
to war with this country. No invader
has ever landed on the shores of Ja-
pan, according to Miss Scidmore, and
the present ruler Is the 125th in q
straight line with but one brief break
Hobson was hero in Japan until he
began bowling about war between
that country and the United States
OF course, Mr.. Shaw never was a hero
in Japan or. indeed, in this country
BY his own confession last fall hC
knew about the sugar weighing scan,
dals when he was secretary of the
treasury, but he never tackled the
frauds or lent any valuable aid to thu
treasury agents who reported to him
There was not enough of fight in hin
to go after the thieves.
Miss Scidmore said Japan went 25t
years without war of any description
and declares that the Japs do not
want war with America, which they
regard as their lest friend. Neverthe'
less, the Japanese are highly com,
petent in military science. In the Box.
er war, the speaker said, the Japs led
all other nations in efficiency of theil
soldiers. When the war with Russia
was seen to be inevitable they work
ed the whole plan out as an equation
Another. reason for the success of th'
lttLe brown men was the absolute
unselfishness of their officers. Thes
heathens seem to have some yer
dangerous virtues and Mr. Shaw nee
not be too hasty about provoking ther
into a fight
There Is no reason to suppose tha
Miss Scidmore knew anything abou
the former secretary of the treasury
admissions in regard to the suga
trust frauds, but she managed to fir
a random shot that struck Mr.. Sha,
wounding him slightly. Japan has ha
a sugar trust scandal, she said, an
: within three weeks of the disclosure
twenty-seven OF the offenders were
Jail. you cannot say that about I'll
American sugar trust scandal" rt
: marked Miss Scidmore.
On the subject Of race hatred 81
, said the Chinese and Japanese cam,
/, understand the American repulsion t,
wards their yellow skins. They have
repulsion towards the black skin al
kinky hair of the African and col
slider themselves on the same plane
r the Caucasian.
= Granting that the Caucasian is mo
sensitive on the subject of race di
tinctions than any other member
the human family, that is no reasc
why this country should go to WI
= with men because they are yello'
! Neither do we want a big war in h
e interests of ship subsidies.