Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-06-05
PEACE IS
IN DANGER
Pastor Russell has Plan 10 Solve
Trouble With the Little
Brown Men.
TO SELL PHILIPPINE ISLANDS
Believes War With Japan Can be
Avoided Only BY Selling the
Islands to that Na,ion.

ASldAVS " tudt syaslUH.
| a reporter OF the Saturday NeWs|
received from Pastor Russell for the
benefit of our readers the foilowing1
copy of his recent letter to the gov
eminent officials. showing the immi-
nent danger of war and sure and
honorable method OF averting it.
Brooklyn, May 26, 1913.
Hon. VIM. ]. Bryan.
Secretary Of State, q. S. al.
Dear Sir:
am addressing you, and through
Iyou the Hon. President OF this nation,
and the honorable members Of con
sgress upon subject which ] believe
Ito be of prime Importance to our ma
tion and to the world. IsRould have
preferred to make this communication
a private one, but believe that itsl
object will be much better served If
! it be known at home and abroad that
the suggestion comes from a native
4 citizen, a minister of the gospel and
1 Z s5 +
an ambassador of Christ, rather thanI
if the same suggestions were to EN-
anate from some official Of our gov
lernment or from a politician.
The Worlds Peace Endangered
a year ago visited Japan and OBJ
lseryed the congested conditions there
prevailing, and learned that her popu-
lation is increasing very rapidly, while,
Levery foot of arabic land is under
EIsintense" cultivation. .Iapan's need
for room for her overflow population
has already led her to grasp Korea,
4 and it is no secret that she longs for
possession Of the Philippine Islands,,
and would be glad of reasonable
Ipretext for taking possession of them.
i Many broad-minded Americans have
suggested that the United States has
no desire to acquire colonies in an
imperial sense, and that, threfore, the
4 Philippine Islands should be surren-
/ dered to the Filipinos. The only OBJ
4 lection urged against this move is
that the Filipinos are not as yet suf-
ficiently advanced in civilization to
properly govern themselves. And
!, those most intimate with the situa-
tion have not the slightest doubt that
If the United States withdrew from
the Philippines, the Japanese govern
ment would Immediately take control,
and shortly the Philippine Islands
would be inundated with Japanese
undoubtedly to their benefit as the
latter people are more thrifty and
prudent and energetic than the Fill.
pinos.
Some Startling Suggestions
suggest that the United States
government select from amongst the
i Philippine Islands one island suitable
as naval base, and tender to Japan
the opportunity to take over the Phil
!, ippine Islands at precisely the same
they have cost the United States
i This would give our neighbors of the
Far East exactly what they want, at
no price at all compared with the
cost of war. Additionally, it would
1 make them our friends and surely all
Americans desire worldwide friend.
ship with all nations. ] advise that
this step be taken speedily, because
4 there Is lingo" party in Japan bent
/. upon the requirement Of the Philip
pines which party will always be
ready to take advantage of such
trifies as the California alien law to
incite hatred against the United
States and to force their government,
against its judgment, to seize the
Philippines.
~ IS human nature for the japanese
| to want those islands--to feel that
they need them. 1t is practical com.
mon sense TO say that they can take
them whenever they are ready. The
Jnltes States could not retake the
philippines except at the expense Of |
many lives and thousands Of millions
Of dollars If at all.
Our Japanese neiahbors, flushed
with their victory over the Russian
navy, and courageous and proud spirit.
ed, anyway, realize fully their ability
20 capture the Philippines and prob
aoiy to hold them; but they do not
realize that a war with America would
he a very different one from that
With Rusia--that American nride ana Il
Yaior would spend thousands Of 1iyes1
ana thousands Of millions Of dollars,
rather than surrender to Japan. Pride
IS courage, selffesteem, confidence, Oh i
both sides are The raaI Dangers. saare (
az NszI1nFs 4 II q III.
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