Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1921-07-16
JAPAN SEEKING
WORLD DOMINION
SAYS LECTURER
Striving to Conquer All the
Countries of East Asia in
Order to Control World,
Asserts Ng. POon Chew.

"Japan is the Prussia of the
a east" said DIR. Ng.. Poon Chew in
4 his address on Modern China" at
B the chautauqua grounds last night
"Japans constitution, formulated
and codified in 1889, is little more
than a translation of the Prussian
constitution as it existed when the
Japanese constitutional commits
sion recommended its adoption.
With its adoption, Japan also
adopted Germany's attitude of ma
tional welfare above the welfare OF
the people," he declared.
DIR Poon Chew was bitter in his
arrangement of Japan and its prin-
ciples. Japan never mas mad a
distinctive civilization of its own"
4 he stated. "All that was best in
the civilization in pre-war Japan
was derived from China. All its
art, its literature, its language, its
customs, was of Chinese origin.
Now, however, Japan has adopted
some German customs, and spirit,
with all the hurry and hustle of
western life, without adopting the
soul Of western thought-Chris-
tianity.
"In 1880 Japan began its own
Prussianizing by sending to Europe
Il commission to search out a con-
8 stitution for Japan. The commit
i tee was welcomed by Bismark,
4 who took pains to explain all the
benefits of the German constitu-
& ton to the committee. and finally
induced them to adopt the Ger
man system with all Its ruthless
ness and militarism.
"Since that time Japan has, II
4 anything, outdone Germany at her
own ruthless game. Japan has
brought into Shantung, the prov
9 ince which was given her from
4 China, more than eighteen tons of
u opium and twenty-five tons of
morphine every year, and these
4 drugs were distributed to the Chi
nese through Japanese postoffices
In this one province there are now
Il 100000 Japanese, where in 1914
there were not 200.
Japan has deliberately set as
her goal a continental Japan, to be
j formed by the conquest of all the
countries of eastern Asia. She is
making a beginning with Korea and
Shantung. She has set herself this
goal because she aims at world
domination, and knows that this
can never be obtained so long as
she remains an insular nation"
DIR. Poon Chew's arraignment Of
Japan came as the climax of his
discussion of the condition in
4 which modern China finds itself.
He explained the apparently poor
success which China is having in
the formation of a republican form
of government by the fact that
China is undergoing reconstruction
from monarchy to republicanism,
and in China reconstruction is a
slow process. "In America" said
| DIR, Poon Chew, "you rush-rush
rush; in China, we rust-rust--
rust.
an this period of trial and
hardship in China" DIR. Poon Chew
concluded, 1--WE need the support
/ of a courageous nation behind us,
and we look to the United States
for our moral support. China Is
rapidly adopting American inven-
tions and customs, and in proper
ton as it is doing so it is accom-
plishing its reconstruction"
DR.. Poon Chew interspersed his
remarks with many brilliant wit
ticisms, and was warmly applaud
ed at the conclusion of his ad-
dress.
A short melodrama by the Glenn
Wells company preceded DR.. Poon
! Chew's address.
The program at the chautauqua
this afternoon and evening will
consist of concerts by the Phil
harmonic orchestra.