The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-11-06
IT PAYS TO TRADE AT DILLON's.

the most telling tactics of these pro- pa gandists, are twofold. One is to stir up the hostile blood of Chinese pa trtots (Chinee patriotism is beyond doubt, despite all the reflections cast upon it) by circulating the lie that Japan is waiting for the earliest op- portunity to gobble up their country; and the other is to tell the Americans in a subtle manner that Japan has an eye on the Philippines, and that she is endeavoring to militarize China so as to launch a surprise attack by for midable military forces upon the United States.
 War-For What? ..
 Altogether absurd and ridiculous as this talk of American-Japanese hostility is, it is important hat every person on both sides of the Pacific should always remember that such propag ganda does exist all over the world, and that he should absolute ly ignore everything which is calcu- lated to irritate American-Japanese susceptibilites unless it be authenti- cated by evidence.
 Let us examine, for the sake of argument, what would be the real re- suit of a war between the United States and Japan from a strategic point of view. The only result that could possibly be imagined would be desolation and nameless miseries for both. The horrors of such a war we can easily imagine after seeing all the lurid object lessons now lying in northern France. And this war for what purpose? There is no prize, ab- solutely none.
 Pro-American Japanese. Then consider if there is any sen- | timental ill-will on the part of the | Japanese people toward the United 1 States. Americans who are at all in- | telligent will observe that the typical Japanese attitude towards the United States is one of unfeigned respect, admiration and emulation. To illus | trate, one of the great surprises that 1 I experienced in New York, in my 1 short sojourn there in January, was 1 the unexpectedly blatant and progress sive pro-Americanism on the part of 1 the Japanese residents. They talked as if they were native American citi- zens, and were almost aggravatingly. and one could say almost unpatroti- | cally, jealous in 'condemning every 1 thing Japanese and extoling every
 thing American.
 In Japan there are some crank writers and dyspeptic politicians who
 like professional story-tellers special. izing in ghost stories. make it their
 business to excite the morbid fancies
 of foolish people by saying puerile things of the fee-faw-furn variety
 concerning Japan's relations with for.
 eigr countries. But ask every sant i Japanese what he may possibly
 think of war with America, and hs Japea's Wars.
 elariag war against the inhabitants o the moon. JanRn's Wars,
 On ea1n1er reflection. one can dis
 cover that there Is @ spring at onci
 deep and superficial to which on,
 can trace the origin of the suspicion
 that Japan has, an aggressive inten
 toward the United States. It is tn,
 fact that Japan has fought, within memory of every adult, more thai three wars with more or less sigma success, First, we fought with Chini in 1894. and then with the Boxer
 In 1900, and after with Russia ii
 1904, and lately with the Germans il
 1918, So 1t Is superfioialiy argued tha Japan aims at scoring another cou
 by successful war with the Unite States. But if you study the cause