Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-12-30
JAP INVASION
SILLY SCARE
DAVID STARR JORDAN SCOFFS
AT ALARMING WAR TALK
OF MILITARY MEN.
us. AND JAPAN BOTH FOR PEACE
Cowboy Army of West Equal to
Emergency Task, ~" Head De-
cIares.-Stanford President
Visits Minneapolis.

Minneapolis, Dec. 2S.-David Starr
Jordan, president of Leland Stanford
university, mental and physical giant
of the world of science and letters,
diffused a gospel of world peace and
national self sufficiency to meet and
conquer every obstacle, in talking to
newspaper men here.
There is no danger nor is there
even hope that the United States
will go to war with Japan or any other
nation in the world" he said, compla-
Gently, confidently.
I'm the first place Japan is having
all it can do to keep it's people out OF
abject poverty. The nation is loaded
with a war debt which it's resources
will not permit it to pay. Then it
has Korea, which has been raked and
scraped until there is not scrap or
a twig left. 1t is costing Japan $780,
100000 year to hold Korea over and
above any possible revenue to be de-
rived from it.
'In the next place there is not the
slightest excuse for the United States
going to war with Japan. In diplomat
ic relations we have been uniformly
courteous to Japan and Japan has
been just as uniformly courteous to
US. Japan realizes as well as we do
that large influx of it's laboring men
into California would be an evil and
by Japan's own act there has not
been Japanese laborer landed in
America for eleven years.
Not Worrying About Japs.
when the United States annexed
Hawaii, in 1900, there were $4,000 Jap
anese there and we could not keep
them from coming to the states, but
six years ago Japan took the initia-
tive and prohibited Japanese coming
the Pacific coast see an early end to
the so-called Japanese problem.
THE people Of California, outside
of the labor unions, have no quarrel
with the Japanese. The Japanese are
barred from the labor unions and the
unions are continually fighting them,
as unquestionably they make for
cheap labor. But that problem will
solve itself.
military men who recently have
declared that an army of 100000 could
capture the Pacific coast, get into the
Rocky mountains and remain there
despite all we could do for an I'M
limited time, take a very narrow view
and l have no respect for their judg-
ment.
"a foreign army landing in Cali
fornia would be at least 5000 miles
from its base of supplies. 1t would
be in worse predicament that Napo-
leon was on the march to and from
Moscow, than the British in the Trans
vaal, country less than the combined
size of Utah and Arizona. All the
standing armies of the world could
not take the Pacific coast and hold it.
"We'd Whip Japs," He Says.
eff it ever came to a war with ia
pan we would whip them. l have no
patience with men who think that ia
pan could whip us or that any other
nation could. Five men can certainly
whip OuC. Jdpdu tV,UOU,OVO pCOpAC
and we have over 90,000,000. An in
vading army would starve to death in
the Rocky mountains and we could
send an army of western cowboys
against the invaders, men of the fight
ing type of the Rough Riders and
the Beers, and whip them easily.
Il had intended paying my respects
to Congressman Mclaughlin and the
other jingoists in my recent speech in
Chicago, but I checked myself. The
fact that Mclaughlin was beaten in
the last election shows in how much
esteem the people of California hold
him.
DR.. Jordan said that Leland STAN
ford has reached and holds it's maxi
mum development under present con-
ditions. It's attendance is limited to
LOO for which tuition is free. He
said it would be impossible to enlarge
the school until more land was sold.