The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-01
Says Allies Must Pay for
Help GfUen by Japan
japanese Writer Thinks Troops Would Be Sent From Far
East to Europe if They Were Really Needed
to Defeat Germans


different from that OF any other civilized
citlzen of modern Power. To him State
everything to any old place with the
Individual. He has been evolving for
these hfty years-being common sohooled
ana civilized. And he IL changing radi-
| cally every day. lie Is climbing 40
! rapidly and so lofty on the ladder OF
ciViHzation that few years ago he saw
| a band OF grafters among his govern
ment onicers--in the navy and army at
| that That was "a social phenomenon
| Wnich he had never dreamed of in the
elder days, let alone seen (Thia OF
! course does not mean that his country
had Deen innocent OF soft money artists
being rather clever race. tho Japanese
! had mad them in unusual abundance in
| all branches Of business but in the
service OF state. neverD And to-day.
with all civilizing influences, his idea and
attitude toward the State is n thing quite
apart. For that reason all that the Jan
anese Government has 10 do 10 get to-
! gether million men to die In Europe
nghting Germans IL simply TO tell them
that they are giving up their lives for
inc permanent peace OF the state
THIS IL the end OF this article And
here Is the I. s.. which Ia always
the most important and too often the
only vital portion OF communication:
Far and away back In the gray recess
OF the brains controlling the Japanese
Government Of to-day there may he n
reason for sending an army to Europe
more weighty than either or even all OF
tho above mentioned w'hcrefores And the
reason might be stated something like
this:
About the most positive the most
conclusive way OF convincing tho Amer
lean people that Japan IL not looking for
trouble with the United States I'm spite
OF the late Homer Lee and Mr. Hobson
In n pfrbt /
her standing army On number II 900
miles away from home Not even the
most rabid OF American jngoes-and
especially the yellow" LIMOGES among
the American newspapers-can with.
stand III" to-the-pointedness OF such a
demonstration as that. At least the |
crafty Japanese are simple enough To
think so.
"Ah. WELL some one might say. "but |
Japan IL going TO exact as indeed You |
say IN ms very article. pledge from |
tho European Powers to stand BY her |
and night for her In hours OF need as the |
conditions OF sending an army 10 Europe |
She Is NOT riskinR much In fac. she 81 |
trying to get the British, the French and
the Russian assistance I'm her fight
against the United states"
Sacrifice Mny lie worth While.
To which the following: ~ T,pan 10
schening in her dark heather way to
fight America would she be foolish
enough TO destroy COR at least risk the
destruction Of the lighting machinery,
which has taken her at least ten years
20 puild up-jusi for her reiehbors'
promises TO help her. II she is cxnert
Ing 10 fight America. In she simple enough
IN her heather blindness to think that
she could say TO America to please wait
ten years before attacking her so that
she may nave an ample time to yet her
hghting forces into shape? II YOU. oh.
you American lingo. had a man across
the road. armed and suspicious of Won
and talking always of your dark design
on his life: and moreover. ~ YOU had
indeed had the desire or killing him
would YOU loan YOUR gun TO your neigh
Dor ten thousand miles away--to the
leighDor from whom you cannot possi-
bly, get It back on the shorter side OF
two months after a cabled notice. II YOU
we're thinking OF a life and death strug-
gle with anybody, would you yourself go
10 the help OF a lot Of tearing and torn
friends 'to be tearing and torn your
self just for the promise of the already {
pretty badly battered friends OF yours
TO help YOU?
And II Japan can convince America
Cnot the Intelligent or the unprecedented |
portion OF the American public for they .
IRE already convinced | Think. can make l
ne most prejudiced, the most blind OF the
American LIMOGES see the utter absence
y any such black design as n war against {
Nmerica. Japan can we'll afford to sac I
'ifce great army In this European war I
L is Indeed stupendous opportunity,
ind rarer than Il Is stupendous, that the c
rods seem 10 have thrown into the ian /
" Japan. ANA the most vital outcome c
" tho move. II carried out. will he
neither In Japan nor in Europe but in
ne United States-that Is, as far as the
rational destiny OF Japan is concerned