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…a!" I have not a word to say against the Montenegrins. They are decent, honest cutthroats. And now we come to the treacherous monkeys of Japan, the thieves and pirates of the East. Who makes the shoddy imitations of European and American ma- chinery, forges the names of famous firms, sticks at no meanness to steal trade? Who, under cover of alliance with England, fostered in China a boycott of all English goods? Only yesterday Japan was at the throat of Russia or at least trod heavily on one big toe. Today in Tokio they sing the Russian natio…
1915 · PDF PAGE 1
…er population is of German stock. But against Germany and this one friend are arrayed Russia, France, England, Servia, Montene- gro, and Japan; and every one of these nations is throw- ing its whole diplomatic weight into the task of getting Roumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Holland, Denmark, and the United States of America to join in. We are only about 6 to 1 at present, and feel insecure. My own view is simpler. We have waited for a long while to smash Germany and steal her goods. We have taken a first-class opportunity, and we shall never …
1915 · PDF PAGE 3
…it is not shack- led by the morality of emasculate idealists. Does any person who knows the Far East believe even in an opium dream that Japan had any quarrel with Germany, or any care for her alliance with England? Kaio-Chau was an easy enough prey; well, then, snatch it, and chance the wrath of schoolmarmed America and the egregious Wilson. But for God's sake, and by the navel of Daibutsu, and the twelve banners of the twelve sects of Buddha, let us spew out the twaddle about honor, and justice, and oppressed China, and the sanc- tity of alli…
1915 · PDF PAGE 5
…to put the "double-cross" on every one. The Kaiser never stirred. It would have been easy to destroy the Russian menace at the time when Japan was straining the sin- ews of the Tartar giant, or when the Moscow Revolution showed that the Tsar could not trust his own soldiers, and the Imperial Guard, hastily summoned from St. Pe- tersburg, shut up the garrison of Moscow in the Kremlin, trained their own guns upon them, and disarmed them. The Kaiser did nothing. Surely the Russo-Japanese war and the Boer war showed plainly if any fool there were…