Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-17
JAPAN REALIZES
FUTILITY OF WAR
AGAINST THE US.
Rotary and Kiwanis Clubs
Guests of C.. of C.. to Hear
Noted Lecturer


Japan will never fight America"
DR.. Homer b. Hubert, diplomat,
traveller, editor. lecturer and former
envoy of the Korean emperor, told
members of the Chamber of Com
merce, the Rotary Club and the XII
wants Club together at luncheon in
the Penn-HarriS Hotel to-day.
Japan never bets except upon
sure thing" he continued. Il know
that in the army of Japan for the
past ten years they have been saying
that if Japan could take and hold
the Pacific coast states for ten years
she could hold them forever, but
that they are not sure they could
do 1T so they have decided not to
try"
Guarded Emperor
DR.. Hubert has had ample oppor-
tunity to study the conditions of the
Far East. He was for years adviser
to the Korean Emperor and when
! the Japanese sent gunner into the
emperors palace and a mob of thou
sands of Koreans gathered about the
| building he and two other Americans
stood guard over the emperor and
, prevented his assassination by the
Japs.
The Koreans have accepted Chris
! tianity and are learning its precepts
| from the inside out, while the Japs
have taken it from the outside in,"
said the speaker, who paid a high
compliment to the Americanzation
and Christianization efforts of
, American missionaries in the coun-
try. The Japs have clothed them
selves in the habiliments of Christian
! civilization but are ruthless at heart,
the speaker said, while the Koreans
have become Christians at heart.
Japan Did Nothing
| Speaking of the Japanese invasion
of China and the Shantung incident,
DR.. Hurlbert said that if any coun-
try outside of China is to have Shan
tung, It should be the United States.
Japan took Shantung as her price
for going into the war, but she did
nothing, while the United States
came ir and won the war, which
means that Japan did not pay the
purchase price asked of her." The
| Japanese in Shantung are simply
robbing the Chinese. he said.
DR.. Hurlburt said that America
! must look to the markets of China
to absorb our surplus products in the
next ten years. I'VE must sell
$4,000, 100000 worth of our stuff
there in ten years if our increased
| manufacturing capacity is to be kept
going to the full" the speaker as
serted, and added that all over China
| American goods are being sold and
as soon as railroads are run to the
interior this demand viii be magni-
! fled many times. lie said the Japs
had cheated us out OF $2O,OO0,OOO
worth of foreign trade in Korea and
| v,-i11 4 coz in, IL
nit her
but we have no need to fear ia
pam" said DR.. Hurlbert. Japan al
ways yields to a bluff and rever un-
dertakes war she is not certain in
advance of winning. She will never
fight the United States"
He predicted that in the course OF
the next ten years Japan will face
Il grave crisis from within, the goV-
erning classes being at swords pointS
with the common people to an extent
that bids fair IN Il decade or SO &c
turn the autocracy into n democracy
Attacks on Japanese
Dr. Hubert told his hearers of tbs
vicious attacks of brutal japanese
upon liberty-loving Koreans, how
they had stolen their land, murdered
Christians. tortured patriots and
raVaged their women. lie offered
proof for all the charges and accused
Tie american Government of sup
linely ignoring the Treaty rights oi
Korea and letting Japan have hel
own way there. why, men," he said
"if the Japanese had done to tho
American people what they have
done to the Koreans we would have
risen up and died to the last man II
our efforts to throw them out of th'
country"
He made strong plea for trade
relations with the Far East and re-
peated that in that direction lies mo-
only our own prosperity in tie days
to come, but the progress and ad'
vancement of the Chinese and the
Koreans as well. He, like many
other observers Just returned from
the Orient, predicts that the efforts
of the Japanese to dominate Chin
and Korea will end as disastrouslA
for Japan as the Kaiser's assault
upon Europe did for Germany.
DR.. Hubert came to the city
through the instrumentality of Will
liam Bennett, whom he met while
the two were doing "Y." work II
France. Il. ]. Stackpole, preslden
of the Chamber, presided ant
George e. Foss, secretary of tn,
State Chamber of Commerce, an ole
friend of DR.. Hubert introduced The
speaker.