Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-08-31
TRANS-PACIFIC FAITH
PLEDGED IN SENATE
Continued From Page H.

!; the air, to those who violate interna-
! tional decency and fair dealing, who
! misuse the forces of developed science
and distort the teaching of philosophy,
\ who would destroy civilization itself
| in the effort to accomplish world doml'
| nation"
CALLS KAISER INSANE.
! Viscount Ishii addressed the senate
in part as follows
, II grasp this occasion to say to you
,, that the whole people Of Japan heart
( lily welcome and profoundly appre-
ciate the entrance of this mighty ma
ton OF yours into the struggle against
the insane despoiler of our civiliza.
ton. We all know that you did not
undertake this solemn task on the i'm
pulse Of the moment, but that you
threw your mighty weight into the
struggle only after exercising most
admirable patience with a firm deter
mination that this world shall be
made free from the threat Of aggres.
sion, from that black shadow Of mill
tary despotism welded by nation
taught with the mothers milk that
human right must yield to brutal
might.
ITO us the fact that you are now on
the side of the allies in this titanic
struggle constitutes already great
moral victory for our common cause,
which we believe to be the cause OF
right and justice, for the strong as
for the weak, for the great as for the
small.
RESPECTS AMERICAN IDEALS.
I'VE Of Japan believe we under
stand something of the American
ideal of life and we pay our most pro-
found respects to it.
you must be free to be Americans,
and we must be free to be Japanese,
but our common enemy is not content
with this freedom for the nation or
for the individual; he must force all
the world to be German too.
1--WE had hoped against hope that
this was not SO, but that noble hope
fed and your admirable patience was
exhausted. You did not then hesitate
to face the issue and foe as you are
now facing it. with that great Ameri-
can spirit which has loved and still
loves liberty, which loves the right
more than peace and honor, more
than life.
DENIES SELFISH AIMS.
1--WE Of span took up arms against
Germany because solemn treaty was
not to us "a scrap of paper We did
not enter into this war because we
had any selfish interest to promote or
ill-conceived ambition to crafty.
"Mr. President and Gentlemen;
whatever the critic half-informed or
the hired slanderer may say against
us, In forming your judgment at
Japan, we ask you only to use those
splendid abilities that guide this
great nation Of yours"
JAPAN WANTS STEEL.
Toxic, Aug. 27.-Oelayed) -Great
interest Is being shown in Japan In
regard to what Viscount Ishii, head Of
the Japanese mission to the United
States, will be able to accomplish in
regard to obtaining relief for Japan's
industries in the matter of the en-
barge on steel expectations by the
United States. Pressure is being
brought to bear upon the government
in this connection by ship builders.
The newspapers take the view that
Japan, a member of the entente, is
entitled to steel for her own national
purpose.
A statement prepared on behalf of
ship builders urges the delivery OF
400 900 tons of steel ordered before
the placing of the embargo. Con-
tracts have been let for the construc-
ton of steamships from this steel.