The herald., 1894-12-30
WHY JAPAN HATES CHINA
1T Is ALL ON ACCOUNT OF A RE-
PULSIVE TRADITION.
Tho Chinese Claimed That the Jays
Originated From Lepers and Sim
ians-This Caused tho War.

Mr.. Dan Kelly. the comedian, who is
in the city, has just returned from
Japan and presents the following curl.
GUS explanation of the race hatred that
exists between the Chinese and their
opponents:
So much has been written OF late con-
cerning the Japan.China war that it
would appear impossible to add new
feature OF interest, and yet the many
gifted gentlemen who have bsen entsr-
tanning the public with actual and Wis
ionary descriptions OF things oriental,
have overlooked fact as startling as it
is true.
Perhaps the modern correspondent
has grown modest and no longer pandeIs
to the sensational elem ent of human
nature. or. worse still. the cruel blue
pencil may have eliminated what would
off,nd pro-Japanese. But now that it
is all over but the transfer OF the in.
dennity fund to Toxic. the truth can
injure no one and may serve to curb Il Q
enthusiasm OF those who are shouting
for the victorH without in the least
knowing why.
Until this war was we'll advanced the
jap was comparatively unknown to the
average American and an air of romance
hovered about him and his islands, but
his finish 20 with Ii Hung Chang, has
robbed him of his mystery and crowned
him q hero.
Americans. and particularly western
ers. do not like the Chinese any wa y
you fix it. Their ideas of Chin anne n
are limited to iaundriss or vegetable
gerdena.
Had the Chinese extermiu ated the
Japs, as most people on the inside ex.
pscted, all Europe, and Russia particu-
larly, would have gone hurriedly to
work preparing for defense. Napoleon,
General Grant, Chinese Gordon and
others OF military renown have uttered
warnings of a Chinese advance on E1ro-
pean territory. But these men, clever
as they were, overlooked q few points in
the Chinese character which the Japan
eae search light laid bare to the world,
viz: the utter lack Of patriotic am bition,
the ignorance OF military sffAirs and the
effect of the feudal system as exemplis
fed by the grssping mandarins.
Let me tell you one reason why the
Japanese vic cries have rolled up with
the monotonous regularity thAt charac-
terizsd the returns from the late general
elections.
For many generations the Japanese
heart has been divided between two sen !.
timents-love of country and hatred of
China. Rome hated and destroyed Car.
thage because it. feared rival; with
Japan ii was different. A course net
generally understood has actual ed jap
an in her vindictive pursuit of this war.
Many. many years ago, so the Chinese
legend runs. the lepers OF China were
exlled to the uninhabitsd islands of the
present japan. Those impure wretches
mingled with the simian natives, and
their progeny formed the latter day Jap.
anese. The Chinese have ever gloried
in the contempt they felt and expres sed
Tor the native OF the now mighty" Nip.
pom. For generations the Japanese
have patiently borne the taunts OF China
until a spirit OF vengeance was born.
and fostered by recollections of past and
present indignities offered by the ecoff-
ing tyrsnt, eliminated in the glorious
achievement OF the present m!kado.
To him have descended all the plans for
revenge on the hated neighbor, and in
him is the persouifcation of Japanese
justice. What animated the Japanese
to embrace civilization? Why did they
empty the national treasury to send the
flower oftheir manhood abroad in search
OF knowledge? Why did thev open
their ports and fawn on the Enali,h,
French and American? That they
might study the arts by which thore
nations had gained the respect of tile
world and the power to demand repara-
e1~ Ill ~aov 81 L.
whoever committed. For hundreds of
years Japan has been training to humi.
late China. The wild barbarian spirit
Of bloody vengeance that actuated the
old Shoguns has become polished into
daily chronicles. What does Japan care
for the civilization of the Corean fur
thsr than the personal advantage to be
derived thereirom? Japan hates the
Corean as an offshoot of the Chinese,
but by diplomatic strategy they seize
upon the pretext of civilization to war
rant their bloody march to Pekin.
Every gun that is fred, every sword
thrust made 10 directed by an eye and
arm skilled In the school of hatred and
forming part of . national vendetta.
Clever and cool as are the leaders, they
lost control at Port Arthur, and could
those massaored Chinese transmit mes.
sage, they would tell of the hiss Of hate
that accompanied the death blow.
The vast, rich almost unknown terri
tory OF China must some day have been
opened to the commerce OF the world
and perhaps it is as we'll the contemned
Japanese should have broken the ice
and paid off old scores. 1t will do much
tn cauaa TIM Ghiu0s0 tn n OuenkiOn tho in
fallibility of the Coniucian system, and
may be the great robber nations of Eu-
rope will federate and by legalized seiz-
ure divide the opulent lands Of the Mon
gol between them.
Then. If they can keep the Southern
Pacific and the Standard Oil company
out. the world at large may derive some
beneas.