Evening star., 1900-09-24
THE "YELLOW" BROTHERHOOD.
Facts and Figures That Make the
sPeriI" Real.

rdcts ana FIgures That Make the
"Peril" Real.
From the London Express.
In considering the Yellow man question
1t is necessary not to forget that there are
other yellow men in the world besides those
that live on the vast continent Of China
all brothers of common stock, who, given
certain eventualities, might make common
cause for common end.
1t is an old saying that if you scratch a
Russian you will discover a Tartar. Like
wise it may be said that if you scratch q
Jap, Slnghalee, a Burmee a Tibetan, or
even an inhabitant of Asiatic Siberia, you
will not fail to find a Mongolian.
The Yellow population of the world must.
therefore, be extensive. The fact is, 1t
reaches the colossal figure of 100000, 900
souls, or nearly one-half the entire popula-
ton of the globe. If. indeed the yellow
races were allowed to multiply with full
liberty according to western notions. their
populations increasing they do in geo.
metrical ratio, they would overrun the en-
tire world to the exclusion of all other
races in less than seven generations or 2UO
years. But the propagation of the Mon
golian millions receives its check in the
semi-acknowledged legality of female in
fanticide. Statisticians and travellers like
the Able Hue record 1t as fact that about
seven female infants in ten are strangled
at their birth among the masses, while all
deformed or sickly babes share the same
fate.
The proportion Of the male to the female
is less evenly balanced among the Mon
golian races than among other peoples of
the world. The ratio is inversely as among
the peoples of Europe, where women pre-
ponderate. OF the population OF Europe
about 1O0,OO0,O00 are full-grown and active
men, ranging in years from eighteen to
sixty. The Mongolians have more male
effectives than the Europeans, and it is
pretty safe to say that the entire yellow
race could count on $50, 1000 grown men.
To create vast world conquering armies.
then, Europe has 100,000OO0 of males to
draw upon. The Mongoliah races. on the
other hand, have $50, 900 600 from whom to
pick countless hordes.
At the extreme outside, Europe. in case
the Yellow peril ever becomes, as it threat
ems to become, an accomplished fact, could
not put armies on her continent. the total
of which would exceed 20.00O.OO0 men.
Mongolia, on the other hand, could put
close on so,oO0.Oo0 of men against the
white races of the world, odds quite large
enough to startle even warriors of Napole-
onic or Alexandrian genius. But genius
like Napoleon, or one with twice or ten
times his talents for war, would not suffice
to save the white man from the yellow
invasion. Our forces would in all human
probability lack homogeneity, and every
100000 of them would require heaven
born leader, for. says Napoleon himself.
''It is not within the mental capacity OF the
human brain. however great, to direct at
once the military combinations OF more
Here, then. you get the factor which
would prove most hostile to the white ar
mes-the almost inevitable probability Of
international and racial dissension and
colossal lack OF strategica1 cohesion.
The yellow races, on the contrary, have
more interests in common than the white
races. Their religions are practically iden-
teal; their aim-the conquest Of the west
ern world-would be the same: their pecul-
lar state of civilization engenders few OF
those racial antipathies with which Euro.
peans are familiar: the vast wealth and
great resources of the western world would
prove a fateful incitement to the known
cupidity of the yellow man: they would
prove more likely than the white race to
fight as one homogeneous whole-one vast
chain of armies of the same blood. faith.
instincts, and common interests bent on
the conquest of the world.
Given leader such as Carthage found in
Hannibal, or Macedonia in Alexander. or
Rome In Caesar-and the worlds history Is
replete with their periodical recurrence
given such leaders the yellow races could
not fail to impose their weight upon the
west as world-conqusrors, and efface the
western peoples either by attrition or an
Inhalation.