The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-06-10
THE RUSSIAN CRY OF "YELLow PERIL"

The political forces in Europe, that
| favor aristocratic and autocratic gov
eminent and the policy of keeping the
masses illiterate and excluding them
from all political power, have been re-
Gently raising great cry about the
yellow Peril" They maintain. that
the japanese have, man for NAMES
pecially considering their lack of ac-
cumulated wealth to draw on in their
hours of exhaustion from war-become
one Of the foremost military nations of
the world; that the Chinese. when
| trained, have shown military capacity
quite equal to that of the Japanese;
and that should Japan obtain para
mount influence in China, and develope
that country as Japan has been devel-
oped in the last quarter of a century,
the two nations combined may form a
force sufficient to overwhelm the civil
lied world. And they further argue,
that as the Chinese and japanese are
kindred races, as different from the
white race in social and economical
tastes and customs, as they are in
their physical development, there Is
danger of them endeavoring to over
whelm the civilized world and to be-
come, in future, its dominant and
ruling race and caste.
These arguments, specifically, are
very plausible; but it Is a case of the
wolf accusing others of the self-same
designs he has himself. The Japanese
have only attained to a position rival
ling the most educated and progress
sive races of Europe and America, by
using the most advanced methods of
universal education and democratic re-
cognition of individual merit and cap
acity. irrespective of the individuals
position, family, influence or wealth. In
fact they have accepted the principles,
that all men are equal before the law;
that all men have an equal right to
justice; that all men are entitled at
least, to an elementary education: and
that all men should have n voice in
the government of the nation; and they
have adopted a constitutional govern
ment and social and political customs,
that make the actual practice of these
principles possible and enforceable.
Now what quarrel can the advanced
nations of the West have with n ma
ton, for wanting to force upon them
a form of government and principles
both social and political, which it is
their boast they enjoy already.
on the other hand, the Russian
Peril" supported by all those political
forces that unite with Russia In cry
ing yellow Peril" is very real and
present one, Napoleon said. that
Europe would become either Repub-
lican or Cossack, The governments of
the most advanced nations OF Europe
are Republican in principle and prac-
tice, whether they are so in name or
not. From the days OF Peter The
Great, IL has been the answering aim
and ceaseless policy OF Russia, to alb
sorb and RussIanlze all Europe, and,
ultimately, the whole civilized world.
And the Russia OF today with It's one
hundred ana forly-one millions of peo-
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