The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-03-12
The Eye That Never Sleeps
Round the World With TOGO

Christian fellowship and kindness,
have had full sway, and let us see how
the Japanese government loves Chris
tians when it has nothing to gain by
such love.
''The Christian schools of the Amer
lean Presbyterian Mission are constant
ly invaded by Japanese officials and
condemned as black societies of robbers.
The Christians dare not make commu-
nications of these matters, for letters
are always opened, and no matter how
innocent the contents may be it is al
ways turned into an occasion for ac-
cusation resulting in fines, tortures and
punishments."
That is Mr.. Jap mt home. not Mr..
Jap in Seattle, being good Christian"
for what there is in it.
Another quotation, this from the Of
fetal journal of the Chinese people
and written on the spot, not from Sc
attic mission" or a produce house,
that depends on Jap farmers for its
business:
Turnout the province Christians are
searched for Bibles. or Christian tracts,
the contents of which are falsely twist
ed in meaning and the bearers thereby
condemned.
Chinese Christians and erdngehsts
hare been, in numerous instances, seized
and locked up in barracks of japanese
soldiery, for three days at time in
dark room ioith hardin any food or
drink, Just 10 scare ont the Chinese from
dssociotino Nth the hated United States
missionaries"
Facts, showing the Jap doing as he
pleases; official japan on the job of
benevolently assimilating Shantung,
and foregathering in brotherly love
with their white Christian brethren.
Want some more? We can give you
yards and yards of it, and hardly begin
the story of the rapacity, cynical saw
agery, brutality and heather rancor to
all things Christian, all things human,
that is Japan's.
Chinese customs officials are no
longer allowed to inspect and appraise
cargoes; they cannot even know what
is being shipped to the inland Chinese
territory. Consequently large quanti-
ties of opium. morphine and cocaine
are transported in face of solemn treaty
obligations to the contrary. The drugs
are peddled by Japanese agents all over
the province to the remotest village,
shops being set up not only in walled
cities and market towns but in many
small villages. Enormous incomes are
derived from these illegitimate traffics.
TO GET THE CHINESE PEASANTS
INTO THE DRUG HABIT THE JAP
ANESE DRUGGISTS GIVE FREE IN
JECTIONS TO START WITH, each
succeeding injection, however, costing
more than the preceding"
A wholesale damnation of people by
governmental edict! That's virtuous,
loving, Christian Japan at home!
The Hun at his worst was fairly
decent sort of fellow beside the Jap.
And what do you think of an Amer
lean business firm that will plot to give
a foothold, aye, plot to give dominion,
to such people, such government,
such theory of human relations, in its
own country?
And what do you think of minister
who is so callous, or so ignorant, or so
easily purchased, that he will from the
pulpit further the advance on civiliza-
ton of a savage horde that destroys
and defiles whenever it has the power
as truly as the Goths, the Visigoths and
the Huns defiled?
Along with Hasmira, we ask for to
know