Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-20
The YELLOW PERIL
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How Deep the Roots Are in
the Present War.
AN EXCITING ! FORECAST
NOT TO COME TRUE, THOUGH,
TILL A. p, 1000.
What May Happen If China and Japan
Reach an Under
standing.
AN EXCITING FORECAST
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, February 6. 1904
''The English and Germanic peoples will
be ousted from their lands and pushed into
the Americas, North and South The
French, Italians and Spanish will be driven
into Africa, there to establish once again
the granary of Europe"
who will do all that pushing and driv-
Ing. and when?' the speaker was asked.
1.-The Russians, possibly" he answered
very seriously. ''but more probably the
Chinese led by Japan
''Oh, the yellow peril? we laughed.
when is it due?'
1T will be no affair for laughter ten
years from now; and within twenty-five
years all Europe will be troubled by the
dawning thought. Is the new Gengis-Khan
already born? Or the new Russian Alex
ander? Probably not; but the thing is sure.
Europe is to be the prey: history must re-
peat itself, and the hordes of the east must
break loose again. At the present hour Rus
STA and Japan are fighting the first round
of the. preliminary struggle"
with which side ought European SYM
pathies to be?" asked a solemn German
university man on his travels. He paid
reverence to the speaker as a great philos-
opher and high priest of thought. He knew
that ten years ago the Japanese government
had persuaded Herbert Spencer to line out
for it his advice as to European policy
in such detail that the still secret document,
with annotations, makes book; he was
struck by the unusual wisdom Of the push
ing orientals in consulting, not politician,
but sage. or pundit; and here prophesying
strange things was another such, French
Herbert Spencer. Ought we to sympathize
with Russia or Japan?'
when the white bear and the yellow
tiger are disputing which shall kill and
eat the heifer, with which should the heifer
sympathize?" answered the high thinker.
Napoleon said that Europe must become
either Cossack or republic suggested.
How It Will Come About.
I'VE are teaching and arming the fabu-
lous hordes of the east said the philoso-
pher. Imagine Japan victorious in the
present conflict; you can realize the en-
couragement it would give to China. But
imagine Japan defeated. China will be
opened more and more to, European infiu-
ence, Japan will tend her wounds, and lit
tie by little, in ten years, in twenty-five
years, Europe under menace of industrial
! ruin, will have to shut her markets to the
products of western industry established
in China and Japan. Then the time of the
| revenge of the east will be near
"When?"
ITO put it far off, say. the year 1915 OF
1000 said the philosopher. Picking, with a
population of 100000, will be the most
colossal city of the World. Why? Because
! of it's population and cheap labor, ready to
profit by all the improvements of the east
| the moment it allows itself to be directed
| Japan will be the director. The common
interest of the yellow race will bring II
/, about
| Picking viii have electric street cars, I'M
derground railways, dirigible balloons, au-
| tomobiles, university sports and matinee
girls.
| 1T will also be the capital of an ANAL
| gamated China-Japan, with population OF
SO0.000,000. l do not say that Japan will
| conquer China. Civilization will conquer
both, because Japan already represents
western civilization extended east. When
China Japan. with its railways, telegraphs
telephones daily press, it's fabulous indus
| trial capacity well organized, and it's train
| ed army of 40000,000 men. shall begin tc
| turn on the west and demand the open door
for it's limitless cheap manufactures, oul
| grandchildren will not thank us for having
| invented the phrase"
IAN army of 40,000,000?"
| one-Tenth as Soldiers.
Surely. The most that Europe can ever