Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-10-18
YELLOW PERIL, BOOG|E
OF HUNS PROP PAGANOA
While Germany is Founded on
Lie, Japan is Founded on Honor,
Says John Luther Long

Not love Of money but the wrong
thought is the root of all evil. Timothy
notwithstanding And, conversely. right
thinking Is the root of all good. The
world will never again have so colossal
demonstration of this as the German
nation is now giving IT. Not one count
in the vast indictment against her but
! Is based squarely upon wrong thought.
| The nation itself is based upon that.
And it has sought to cnvenom all other
nations with It's own thought.
according To Germany, Japan -
the peril which, like a blight. is to slowly
destroy America And unhapplly there
have not been lacking in our own country
voices to echo this cry. Some of us have
forgot that no treaty between us and
Japan has ever been n scrap OF paper
or ANYTHING but Il solemn covenant.
Some of us have forgot that while Ger
many is founded upon a lie japan is
founded upon honor That was and still
is the one implacable unalterablc word
Of the Samurai.
he sword is the soul OF the samurai
still
And il was a soul great enough when
its sovereign ordered, IN 1868, to give
itself up. 1t dsarmed itself. then. of
the precious two swords of its caste.
And while Germany ls boasting of its
alleged kultur of forty years growth,
Japan could. If il would. point back
10 the cloudy Bridge of Heaven for the
beginning of herself, while she does
not, and never has. expressed II IN blood,
| bur in pure beauty, This beauty sh
cultivated for The thousands Of wears
back 10 Jimmu fcnno behind hermit
waits
Then. suddenly. our own Commo-
,orc Perry preached the walls and brought
the hermit nation into the great brother
hood which lifts up the world Md IN
white light oi publicity she not onl,
kept that culture which had grown up
under thc glass oi sechslon Int has
httrd II to her new place in he world
Md Il has not madc her men l,.>~ brave
uur her women les gentle.
lndccd She has handed much of II
Ia rs " no ever before heard OF . ma
tinu With u 9untloWcr for crest With
the sun fur It's flag W hat nation in
Stead 81 contests ut aims provides con
tests al poetry And Vet What other
nation has advanced from the hermit
stage 10 a hrst place among the nations
Of he earth IN little more han the
space ~incc uur own CIVIL Mar And
wi We know how She eau fight when she
lnust and >oul, them
lot Us n0i e.ti tins nation NtioN
because = yellow nation docs She j.
flr Winter than German, She is as white
j. We are Let rs not think ot her rs un-
tr.i~jnorihv She has never broken
y treaty nor invaded country which
had not insuitcd her honor lei Us love
her a> She really loves us VIC hnought
hen INTO the world, She admlrcs and
hanor~ Us for il Lei lis think Of the
beauty and grace and the JOY she has
taught rs Of tho friendship she ofIcrs
Iis
and most ii All. lot lis remember
when the league OF nations shall be
formed after hc war that the Pacific
WIl far outr4nh The atlantic in its com
nerciai Wor!d-v4Iuc, and that Amer
ica and Japan vii hc set to guard il
tnd no tWa nations on The earth shall
T., gwen inIghtcr trust Let rs put
uar hand oft across the Pacific ~ our
titt1cr guardian now John Luther
Long i'll the Public Ledger
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