The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-08-22

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| and the Chinese army and navy reor-
ganined b. Japan It would Be easy enough
| to drive out the foreigners. For no mat
ter how great the military power OF Ger
many and France In Europe, they would
not be able to hold their possessions in
the far Orient against any Chino-Japan-
csc combination. especially II the Chinese
troops were properly trained and equipped
by the Japanese.
For aside from the difficulties OF trans
porting graet military froces all the way
from Europe to the China seasr ana the
climatic Disadvantages to which white
TROOPS are subjected In the Orient. ia
pan and China together would aiwayas
carry the day in the long run. thanks 70
their Overwhelming resources. the sheer
force OF numbers. and the vicinity Of their
base supplies. Not even England or Rus
sia, nay. not even a combination OF Eng
land. Russia, Germany and France. could
oppose q Japanese and Chinese alliance.
such as has been indicated In the forego-
ing, In the far east. In spite OF Eng
lands powerful navy ana Russia's reck-
lessness Of human life and her transsiber-
ian railroad. they would always he over
matched as long as the fighting was re-
strlcted to the Orient.
Just what chances the western ntions
OF Europe would have were Japan to
place itself at the head of a Chinese hos
tile movement in the direction OF the set
ting sun 1t is dificult to say. More than
q thousand years have passed since Eu-
rope was last overwhelmed by an inva-
Sion from the Orient torrent that swept
from its foundations the mighty Roman
empire. It remains to be seen whether
the Europe OF today will be any more
successful in stemming this new Asiatic
Eruption.
China, alone hasa q population OF l1o,-
900 coo. Papan has 40,ooO 900 TO her credit
while in India there Is a teening, seeth-
ing mass of same 800. 900 AsIatics, who
are quite as much imbued with bitter and
moral hatred of the white races as are
both the Chinese and japanese. History
Is there to show us that when once a
huge human mass of this kind begins
moving II is carried along by its own mo-
mentum in an Irresistible advance, bear
ing down everything before e. and over
whelmlng and absorbing everything that
everything In its way.
Imagine, then. a giganatic tidal wave
extending nearly the entire breadth of
Asia. and composed OF some 700 0oooOl
people lnbued with fierce hatred Of the
white races, pouring down on Europe UNI
der the intelligent direction, II direction Is
possible in such a case. of those Japanese
whom we have endowed with all the |
fruits Of our science, OF our intelligence. |
and OF our experience. This may sound |
fantastic. But the conclusion of an ALL |
ance between China and Japan-an ALL |
ance which combines the restless enter
prising nature of the Japanese and the |
Asiatic hatred Of the white races Is bound |
in lifelong run to ultimately become vlo- !
lently aggressive-renders the peril a |
grim reality, and when early In the 's0s |
the kaaiser suggested in his much ridi- I
culed design that the western powers |
should lunite In self-defense against the |
yellow peril, he was not foolish, but pro-
pheHc.
To what extent the European powers |
have hoodwinked by both China and ia
pan may be gathered from the series OF |
mya of st. Petersburg. and in the Fort
nightly Review of London. to the effect
that Japan. by surrendering her foothold
on the mainland Of Asia, that Is to say,
that portion of the Chinese empire which
she militarily occupied Immediately after
the war, had '1ost her basis of future al
lance Of the whole yellow race"
They were apparently blind Il the fact
that Is was precisely by the withdrawal
from the mainland that the shrewd and
farsighted Japanese statesmen wer lay
ing the foundation Of an eventual union
with China. Indeed, at the time when
these articles were being published in the
Russian and English press. Prince Konoi,
president Of the Japanese house OF lords,
printed in a Toxic review a remarkable
article. the Importance of which seems to
have escaped the attention Of the foreign
representatives in the far east. and in
which he strongly urged an alliance be-
tween China and Japan. so as "to form
an opposing force to the pretentions OF
the western powers Of the Orient"
Contemporary diplomatic considera-
tions." declared the prince" may result
in combinations liable TO obscure the
main issue for the present. But they are
only details Of a great struggle which is
going on between the white and yellow
races, In which the Chinese and Japanese
must inevitably stand side by side. West
ern people look upon the yellow races
with a contempt that Is mixed with
fear"
After the Oriental war there ensued an
amazing. and frorm a western point of
view, ominous change. The Japanese
to the forbidden cIty'' Is
now treated with an infinitely higher de-
gree of consideration. alike By the Dow
ager Empress and by the Tsung-liYamen.
than any OF his western colleges. His ad-
vice f. followed and his requests are
granted with a unamiuity and an entire
absence OF all that double 5eaiing which
characterfzes Chinese relations with the
western powers. On the other hand. in
Japan all the former dispositions to de-
epise and ridicule China has disappeared
The Japanese people have come 70 look
upon the Chinese a. a species Of ward
whose interests are identified with their
own. and who needs assistance. develop
ment and friendship. Aoreover, the Jep-
anese now md IL polite 10 recall the fact
that they are indebted for their knowl-
edge Of art to China. AMI that their en-
tire classical literature dating back 400
years or more f. all rinted and written in
Chlnese In fact the Chinese language
in Japan occupies much the same position
as Latin does with Us.
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