The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1900-07-27
UNIVERSAL WAR.


The news received by the Rio, two
days later than that received by the
Californian yesterday morning, had one
CLEAN of hope. The allied troops had
captured Tientsin, and after heavy loss
TO themselves as well as to their adj
versaries. had put the Chinese troops
TO flight. This is a most necessary sue
cess, fer if Picking is destroyed, as It
must le for the sake of an object les
son, and as an indelible mark of the
wrath CT the western world, Tientsin
must be the base of operations.
The task of the western powers is far
heavier than they have any idea of, and
the difficulty of adjusting their Earring
interests is one which is playing into
the hands of the Chinese. In astute-
ness in the art of setting other people
by the ears, none can beat the Asiatic
In the power to deceive, none can equal
the Chinese, One can see the hand of
the willy diplomat from Washington to
Berlin. What the Chinese now want is
time to foment dissension, to mass their
hordes on the frontiers, and then to
break forth in. yellow torrent, sweep
over Asia and overwhelm Europe in its
fairest provinces. :....
1t has seemed impossible that the
western civilization could be so threat
ened. A tide of this kind has been
deemed thing of history to be studied
and thought over, but it's realization
at the end of the nineteenth century
was certainly never considered possible.
However, there it is and the problem
is how to meet it. Divided councils and
apathy led to the establishment of the
Turk in the fairest province of Europe,
a lasting blot upon western civilization,
and an object lesson to us to have
unity.
The kilograms tell us of a Russian ad-
vance upon Peking, but they also tell
us that the Russian frontier is threat
ened, and that the Chinese hordes are
pressing towards Siberia on their march
westward. What such movement
would result in, it is awful to contem-
plate. For it will not only be China,
but it will be all Asia that will rise as
the Chinese hordes press forward, and
the civilization of the west will find
itself in a death grapple with the bar
barism and brutality of the East. 1t
is just as likely that Russia and her
200, 900 troops may never get across the
frontier to attack China from the north,
and the various powers need not be
Jealous of her. She may need all their
assistance and their sympathy.
What most interests us, however, is
the position of the United States in this
matter. We, at present, stand safe by
our position, and the Chinese have no
navy to cope with the navies of the
powers. The danger would develop
however, if Turkey were to join in the
Asiatic movement against civilization,
and that is, after all, not a remote pos
sibility, once these forces break their
boundaries.
The United States has to avenge the
death of her Minister and his family,
and the many missionaries who have
gone forth fearlessly to light the lamp
of civilization in a heather and be-
nighted land. No more indemnity will
suffice; no vicarious punishment will
assuage the horror which we feel on
account of our murdered countrymen
and country women. We demand
blood; we have to fall back now upon
the old Mosaic law, an eye for an eye,
tooth for a tooth. We shall have to
exact the utmost penalty.
And this brings us to the duty of Ha-
wall. When her sister States and Ter
ritories are preparing to rise in arms,
she, also, must grid her loins and make
ready for the fray. Her help may be
small drop in the ocean of armed
men which are rushing to battle, but
even the single rain drop has it's mis-
sion, and the Hawaiian Territorial con-
tingent will have its mission, too. The
cross representing Christianity and the
wisest and best civilization the world
has ever seen, is now pitted against the
most degrading and immoral that yet
exists The western world is in a death
grapple. Shall we not strike blow
with our brothers?