War With America Would Ruin Japan.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 26, 1913:
English Writer Says the Tokio Government Won't Force a Conflict.
WHITE RACES AGAINST HER
While We Would Soon Eject Her from the Pacific if She Took Hawaii and the Philippines.
By Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph to The New York Times.
    LONDON, Monday, May 26.— Lovat Fraser, an authority on Eastern affairs, contributes an article to The Daily Mail in which he declares emphatically that Japan will not fight over the treatment of Japanese in California.
    "A conflict between Japan and the United States at this juncture," he says, "would mean ruin to Japan, who could not run the risk of invading the Pacific slope, because she would soon be ejected. She might take Hawaii and the Philippines, but how long could she hold them? The United
    States would press forward the completion of the Panama Canal, spend its vast resources in building an invincible armada of dreadnoughts, and devote all its incomparable energies to winning back its lost possessions.
    "The ultimate outcome of the struggle would never be in doubt, as far as the near future is concerned, for Japan could get no more ships and no more money. A temporary success would be of no avail in such a mighty conflict. Japan fought herself to a standstill in her war with Russia, and had the fighting continued a few months longer the result might have been reversed.
    "She knows full well that the United States would never accept a transient defeat. She is equally well aware that the Western world would not give her more ships and money to prosecute a war based upon such an issue as the Californian Land bill.
    "It would he a war deliberately fought to challenge the world supremacy of the white races, and in such a cause the white races would instantly unite. They would not all fight, but would not help Japan.
    "The welfare of America means more to the white races than the welfare of Asia. We may take it for granted then that the present differences between Japan and the United States of America will in some way or other be composed."