The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-03-01
SOME LEADING EDITORIALS.
Who Discovered us'
Richmond Dispatch.

Who Discovered Us7
Richmond Dispatch.
Some months ago were told that new discoveries had
been made both this continent and Cuba which left
little If doubt of the the theory that
the Chinese landed here long before Columbus
pressed their civilization upon the country Now however
Japan forward in the Buddhist priest and
seeks to the least divide the honor with the Flowery
Kingdom
The priest whose name is Shuye Sonoda has according
to San Francisco special just returned that city from
Mexico, where, assisted by Senior Baes archaeoogist of
the Mexican he made extensive explorations and
Investigations He has Drought with him. it said what he
regards as convincing proof that the japanese discovered this
continent one thousand before Columbus his
memorable and carried their faith along the Pacific
coast from Alaska to Mexico
Sonoda followed the chronicles of Hoel Shin Buddhist
monk VINO IN a. d. returned his native heath
account OF voyage that reached far south land
Mexico because of the maguey plant.
S0noda declares that he found nnumerable evidence
Mexico some of which were the Mexican zodiac, with its
twentyeight houses Oriental lettering signs temples,
stone names which are but slightly corrupted from the Jap
anese.
The special says further that Sonoda detected strong
racia resemblance between the Mexican and California mis-
sion indians and the Japanese and that strong the
dian dressed in the Japanese photographed
Prof John Fryer Of the chair OF Oriental languages in the
Japanese Of the Northern Islands and bore resemblance
temples he saw invariably faced the south as in
Ihibet the cradle Of Buddhism and the mosacs
All Of this interesting but isn't the priest the special
corrupted form Of Buddhism has "a oSshed in Tibet for
turtles but the best authorities locate the cradle of Buddhism
means it spread to Tibet China Japan and eiseWhere
However well afford that pass if sonoda sue
the vexed question. who discovered us p
Point to Consider.
The Dutch generally regarded especially this
country rghfu owners OF South Africa and the Brit
sh as nsrpns invaders In sense this impression not
without for the Dutch the whites obtain
foothod in that land of black But when the first
struggles between English possession
the black mems land concluded decreed by the
congress OF Vienna i'll 1915 that by paying 100000 Cor
perhaps pounds Great Britain should acquire all
South Africa south of the twentyfh parallel The morality
OF this agreement is of questionable the rights
the native blacks already considered
but under this the Beers when they ekked
the northern wilderness beyond the Naa did not
beyond the limits of British territory.
AT the present time the resident South African popua-
$4,000 Dutch and 100000 British the remainder being
made up OF various other natonaes Thus it will be
struggled for the supremacy in South Africa very
nearly equal in numbers 1t is also well ecoeet that the
Dutch and English combined handful in COM
parlsGn with the teeming millions Of blacks who originally
From the standpoint OF anti-imperiaists who con-
tend that civilized has right to seize foothod in
neither the Dutch the British had any right to
settle in south Afea and even now they there simply
have taken hold and there is absolutely hope that the
o"HeIS OF VIII ever again CONTROL he
Dutch pirates will stay and the English pirates will stay Just
the American pirates have stayed and pushed their
quests from the Atlantic the Pacific The only question
to be settled whether the Dutch pirates the English
pirates will become supreme.
The English pirates being backed by empire from,
without fail in the end the supremacy all
the region south OF the twentyh parallel which by the de-
csion of the OF Vienna had already become theirs
early 1915. One would think that under these
stances the important question for the moraist
slider whether this result is likely enhance damage
the interests OF the and rghtfu South Africa
WIN the powerless millions OF native blacks gain lose
1t hardly be doubted that they will gain for all
fCf bP
has been liberal and enlightened while that of the
Dutch has been comparatively harsh and medieval in all its
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