The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01

cd Toyo and anonyn1ous article entitied Pride and Prejudice" appears, and although some of the gsiied jades Of western civilization are disposed to credit the authorship to a dtssruntied Englishman or American, we doubt the truth of their assumption. This IS what the article has to say concern ing those of us who would esteem our serves enlightened beyond the dreams of Oriental or ancient:
 Think of the moral Occident, that wonderfully straightlaced Occldent that connives at Armenian and Mace donian massacres; spends millions In crushing and stamping out two sturdy little republics, fighting for bare inde- pendence; stabs, shoots and assassi- mates its monarchs: gives over the streets of its greatet cities. after night fall, to the unprecedented rule of the 'demi- -monde;' is forever trying to bully weaker nations into ceding portions Of their territory, and, in broad terms, goes about with Bible in one hand and a gauntlet in the other; of which the ranting, all-knowing. hard-drink1ns preaching, racing. Louis XIV re- diviyus,' Kaiser Wilhelm Il, is the truest type.
 We do not stab our monarchs in the female line, nor do we act so as to com neI our great Emperor to live in steel fined study or travel in a bomb-proo train. We acknowledge the truth oi the imputation that we are not Cauca- sians. Yet there Is no quarter or our largest cities that Is not as sate at night as it is in the daytime. our restaurants are not flooded with pawus after dark, nor are even our cheapest theaters houses of assignation. We do not go into boasting ecstasies aiter victory over a weaker foe, nor oo we make idols of our admirals and gem erals one day to revile them the next. We do not encourage and foster the hearing of illegitimate children, nor Is the State ever willing to pay premium on the rearing of fatherless boys. We do not lynch even the vilest offenders, nor have We've confess it to our shame-ever once burned murderer-a' the stake. We admit that we are, on the whole, a Buddhisttic nation. Yet We have never undertaken a propa- ganda of this creed with cannon in the background to enforce religious ar guments; we cannot boast of Jesuiti- cal society yearning to confound church with State; nor have we, to our humiliation be 1t said, ever had ah In- quisition wherein to teach the gospel of peace and love by means of thumb screws, the rack and the wheel. We hasten to plead guilty to the accusation of being Japanese, Asiatics of the Asiatics. Yet we do not seek to eprich ourselves at the expense Of weaker people. We do not talk justice and act urjustly. Nor do we permit our soldiers to rape defenseless women, kill helpjless infants or loot habitations of powerless n-combatants."
 While the writer In Toyo did not spare the United States. as can be seen by his reference to lynching and to our idolatry of admirals and generals that soon changes into neglect, he evidently regards America as the truest friend Japan has and bases hopes upon an alliance with this nation. Of course, Il Is understood that by America he means the United States, since. in the eye of the Oriental there Is only one hemisphere. This Is his apostrophe and Stripes:
 America: Nation of liberty and the rights of man, will you let three great European nations work ruin on Orienta soil? Are you ready to proffer US the right hand of fellowship? Join ouI standard, on which we have inscribed in hues never to fade, Justice As you are great. be you strong to redress the wrongs of millions of Asiatics Newest and greatest of great nations stand by us, the 'Anglo-Saxons of the Orient in our struggle for the right.