The Cairo bulletin., 1911-03-13
JAPAN A BUFFER
IF CHINA AWAKES
Japanese American RidIcu|es
Robson's War Ideas.
MIKAOO WHITE RACES FRIEND

Yale Graduate Asserts Sanflower King
dom May Check Possible Monaghan
Uprising and Has Neither Money
4 Nor inclination to Attack United
States--Chiidren Revere America.
IN the years to come when China
has awakened either as a great mill
tary power or as mighty commercial
people whose millions dwarf the mem
/ ory Of the Anglo-Saxon race of today
the American people will find that In
! teaching Japan It's first footsteps in
the kindergarten OF western civiiza-
ton its broad minded ancestors were
rearing friend that would be needed
In times of STRESS" declares Dr. Mi
nosuke Yamaguchi, NJ. A., Phi. D.,
NJ D.. graduate of Yale, who Is taking
course Of studies at Columbia Med
ical school.
Il think Lieutenant Hobson's theory
I that Japan Is preparing for war with
America has been pretty well explod-
/ ed, but | would like to point out some
of the reasons why anything but
friendship between the two countries
is impossible.
| II was born in Japan and grew up
K there. l have been the pastor of one
{1of the greatest churches In Japan, and
to make my work more thorough there
have come back to America and be-
come a doctor of medicine. l know
Japan. | graduated from Yale, was
! four years at the Western Reserve
/ Medical school in Cleveland and have
lived great deal In New York, and
know America.
Sentiment For America. ts
| There were always reasons why
Japan could not attack America sue
cessfully. There have for many years
been sentimental reasons why she
! would not IL she could. 1t was Amer
tca who came knocking at our doors
when we were close corporation,
stay at home provincial people.
/ In the kindergartens of Japan today
/ the little children are taught patriot
I ism. which becomes a fierce fire In
/ every breast The little ones are taught
the story Of how your American sailors
came to Japan and pointed the way to
| occidental civilization and how the
United States was the first and best
friend we had in the congress of world
powers japan never forgets this
What we are today as a great world
I people we owe to America, and does
any one think that we shall so soon
forget?
Modern Japan is too busy to think
of the impossible task of mastering
great country like America. 1t has
been suggested that we want the
Philippines. Now, 1t is not generally
| known that the climate of the Philip
pines is as bad for Japanese as 1t Is
| for Americans.
Japan Busy coIonizine.
Eve have been trying to coloni2e
I and settle Formosa, but after all the
time we have held that island we are
! still fighting there to maintain stable
government and to establish decent
laws. We are trying to c0lonize 1t, but
| at tremendous, cost in treasure and
men. 1t Ia not yet a paying PROPOSE
| ton. And what would the Philippines
be? Formosa offers fertile field FOR
our Oyergrowing population for at least
twenty-five years to come, and our
most northern island I'm Japan is hard
ly settled, 1t has room for millions OF
more people.
II have often pointed out that 1t
would be impossible to send Japa.
nese feet with soldiers to Hawaii to
hold those Islands against the force
that America could rush there. Even
IL we took Hawaii how could we come
on and attack any part Of America and
hold 1t long enough to get our breath?
II we were to seize the Philippines In
some unguarded moment, wouldn't
they be an elephant on our hands In
the supreme struggle with the United
States that would foll0w7 II would
leave our home country exposed to at
tack.
Japan Too Poor to Fight.
"Finafly, Japan's finances are not In
condition to warrant Its undertaking
such foolhardy thing as war with
America. and so far as can see we
have pretty well mapped out how we
are going to spend our spare cash In
the next fifty years by the things that
we are planning to do in Korea, Man
churia and Formosa. s
Like all the rest of the world, we
are preparing for emergencies. We are
trimming our young men to shoot, and
we are building battleships and forts.
The problems In the east are too great.
China Is awakening. No one can tell
Mt this moment what turn the great
sleeping mystery Of the ages will take
when she wakes up. m ey
what would happen II when she
finally bestirs herself Napoleon, an
Aftila or Mahommed should step for.
ward aud point to world empire7 1t
would be In such case that the wis
dom Of Japan I'm maintaining an
armed fist would be vindicated. The
rest Of the world would be glad that
China's nearest neighbor. impregnable
on its own islands, as England was "
sen power capable Of acting as police
man for the awakened giant. And you
may rest assured that modern Japan