Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1904-10-20
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Our American newspapers have as rule
been 80 blinded by fatuous admiration OF
the wonderful new Jap that they have failed
to look forward to possible results pregnant
with greater interest TO the human race than
the entire annihilaton of the two great ar.
mics now confronting each other in eastern
Asia, would be.
The Baltimore San has been no exception,
although by no means as extravagantly bi.
ased in favor of the Japanese rs some others
of the great American dallies have shown
themselves to be-
This paper has remained firm IN its belief
since the beginning of the war that the "Yel'
low PERIL is a reality and that 1T may best
be made certain and imminent by the sue
cessful eruption OF the Brown Peril" That
others, ADLER, are beginning to see it in the
same light, may be shown by the following
extracts taken from the leading editorial in
in the Baltimore Sun of Tuesday last;
"### Not since the DAYS of the great Ma
poeon has there been a battle 80 destructive
of human life as the battle of the Shakhe riv-
or, In which, according to semi official es'i-
mates, 10000 men were killed or wounded
In the battle at Liaoyang few weeks ago
the casualties ON both sides aggregated 40,
600. In both these engagements the En-
ropean was the vanquished. the Aslatic was
the victor. The nation whose army has
twice been beaten is the most populous In
Europe, tits the strongest military power
in the world. It's soldiers are as brave and
determined as the fighting men of any other
army on the globe. In endurance, in will
ingness to do or die the Russian is second to
neither the Teu,on, Anglo Saxon nor Latin
| Yet the Asiatic Japanese has met him on e.
dual terms and venquished him. That 10 an
event of world wide significance 1t may re-
suit some day in Asia,lc supremacy in ASIA
10 establishing the principle of Asia for the
Asatics," just az we interpret our Monroe
doctrine TO mean america for American"
"*~* 1t requires no stretch of the i'm
agination to conceive that the day will come
when the United States may be engaged in a
life or death struggle to maintain ioothold
in the territory which it acquired from Spain.
If the Japanese are the victors In this war
there will be tremendous revival in Asia OF
race pride, and the result may be race SOL
idarity against which the white man will
not be able to prevail
"*** In the Philippines are, at the
lowest estimate, 1000 900 Asiatics. We
maintain in the islands garrison of $4,000
men-sn army half as large rs our entire
regular army in the period Immediately pre-
ceding the war with Spain. Does anybody
suppose that the Filipinos have not heard OF
Japan's victories over the Russians? Does
ANYBODY imagine that the Filipinos love
Americans any more than Japanese love Rus
slams? Why should thesi We have done
nothing to make Filipinos like us. They are
Asiatics who naturally prefer government
and control by Asialics, just as we prefer
government and control by men of our own
race. Every time the Japanese smite the
white Russians hip and thigh the Filpinoa
ure thrilled with race pride. When to this
nride of race is added d sense OF grievance
1t ia conceivable that they may rise against
us and attempt to assert Aslatic supremacy
as we'll as redress their fancied wrongs. We
have conquered them once. 1t is said We
cat, easily conquer them again. This is 10
badly true But it will mean another sacri'
fee of American lives, another waste oil
American money. And suppose, in the
future, the Filipinos should bave the assist
ance of fellow Asiatics OF japanese, for In
stance. Will it be so easy then? Have the
Russians found the Japanese easy to defeat'
And, man for man, the Russians are as brave
soldiers as Americans are If there be, as Is
not wholly improbable, an upheaval in Asia
in the first half of this centurY--an uprising
against the white mans domination-tht
United States will not escape"