The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-12-17

Armenian massacres and Turkish tri-
umpls. has split It's Continental shell,
and dispersed over the world wild
forces, like 90 many liberated gases,
battling along lines of least resistance in
Africa and central Asia, until they con-
centrate their whirhng, angry masses
over the focus of the China Sea. 1t is a
drama more sudden an + mighty than
the Macedonian transport of Greece
to India. And if the former contact of
of East and West resulted in a union Of
cultures, from which sprang modern
Europe, so must this latter-dav meeting
issue in world Wide fusion. from which
shall arise a broader manhood.
But if our young consciousness is at
last to appropriate the East, we cannot
have the foundation of our RESPONSE
bility laid too deep. The crisis is too
grave to be led by selfish ambition. 1t
must be no conquest, but fusion We
are not to court japan for the number
OF her battles hips, nor weigh China bv
the tonnage of her Imports; rather TO
challenge the East soul to soul, as if the
sudden meeting of two brothers parted
since childhood. 1t ia primarily test
of ourselves, whether We are capable of
expanding local Western sympathy and
culture TO the area Of humanity. As
clanfeeliDg merged into raCe-life, and
this INTO Christian empire; as tie dis
coyery Of America and India lifted ieu-
dal Europe to the enthusiasm of world
adventure, universalizing the keen
mind of Elizabe.hian England until it
became the mirror OF ali humanity in
Shakcspcare-so to-day must we prove
the absolute value of Western thought
and institutions 10y their flexibility, by
breaking through their selfish national
ism, dropping al! mean sense of strange
ness and jealousy, and exhibiting a SYM
pathv that shall thrill to amalgamate
with everything human, aspiring, and
constructive in that wonderful Eastern
world. We cannot shirk the response
bility if We would. Whether we like it
good or i'll, from now on, and TO al!
time. The test is mutual 1t is not
merely that the West shall from its own
point Of view tolerate the East nor the
East the West; not even that the West
shall try to understand the East from
the Eastern point of yiew-but that
both, planting their faith in the divine
destlnies Of man, shall with co-opera-
ZION aim at a new world-type, rich in
those million possibilities CT thought
and achievement that exclusion bllndlv
stiles
s. For this fusion is to be not only
worldwide, but final The future his
torian will look back upon our crisis as
unique, the most GREATNESS in human
annals. Heretofore race unions have
existed for limited areas only-compo-
site cultures whose defects and abuses
outlying types might eventually rectify.
Rome was regenerated by Teutonlc
character, and Hun tyranny by Tartar
freedom. But TO-DAY each of the
pledged factors absorbs the power and
hope of a hemisphere. The Western
type of cui ure is marked, Scared. cast
into hard mould for all Aryan peoples,
the Eastern IS full, over-ripe, despairing
Of new expression in It's WORKOUT
words. Each has exhausted the sepa-
rate fruitage of its seeds. IF the union
fail now, the defect must be consanguin-
eOus to the end; for there is no new
blood, no outlying culture germ for sub
sequent infusion. Such as we make it
now, 1t must remain Till the end. This
Is mans final experiment.
" 1t follows that every available ele-
ment now carclesslv discarded will be
an eternal loss. 1t is this fact that
makes the immediate study and preser-
walton Of the East so important. Pro-
viden,ially has this double factoriaI
wealth been guarded by the ages for
coming fusion. For Il is to be no one
sided household, this world marriage,
whose troth was plighted two thousand
years ago. And though bride and groom
look strangely at each other, it is only
by free and equal contribution Of their
several talents that thy can meet the
responsibility of ali time"
lie then rercrs to the progress of the
fusion since the openln. Of Japan. The
copying on the part of that country OF
Western ideas, to the importation of
Paris milliners, and the attempt at self
tern universities, which was interpreted
As a Conservative reaction" - y ct
it was no new thing. Japan's yielding
TO Commodore Perry was no miracul-
Gus conversion to Western taste, but
the conviction that fire must be fought
with fire. The very youth who rushed
feyer;shly to Europe studied ship
building and cannon foundry to hold
of the intruders. 1t was not to revive
Tokugwa anachronlsns, but to block
equally Anticipated Western Journalism.
And though, for a moment, the radicals
did their best to ape our defects, the
'ai'thtee pailtolS OF totbr io'o, anu To-
dav have seen clearly their unique mis-
sion 10 preserve the Asiatic best. and
combine ii with the European in new
composite type worthy of becoming a
model for the world.
But the chief obstacle to Japan's
pllvIrg her destined part was the
Vests misconception of her attitude
towards China Our journals proclaimed
deadly rivalry between the two powers,
tier lust for Corean conquest, and DELHI
crate expansion of army and navy to
crush the older empire. We credited
her with vulgar ambition only This
was a radical error. Her desire from
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