The Washington times., 1904-02-15
WHAT MAY HAPPEN
# JAPAN WINS
DiplOmatists Much Interest,"
ed in the Question.
NEW DOMINATION OF ASIA
Would Bring the "Yellow Peril" to the
Gates of Europe and Bring
Other Problems.
II Japan should win. what then?

II Japan should win. what then?
To diplomats and publicists in Wash
inSton this question has all at once be-
como startlingly real In view of Japan's
remarkable victories at the very begin
ming OF war with Russia
VIII all of Asia come under one dom
inationY" they ask, and Are we not to
look To Japan as the next world power
instead OF specializing as to the claims
Of England, Germany, and Russia In
the East?"
OF course. the result of the war is
still beyond prediction. bat Japans
chances Of success never had a more
vital meaning than at present.
Apply Monroe Doctrine.
Discussing this phase of the present
conflict, a diplomatist acquainted with
international affairs said
May we not expect Japan TO apply
the words of the Monroe Doctrine to the
East should she be victorious? That the
proclamation may be easily transposed
by the substitution Of the word Japan
instead of the United States is shown in
the following paragraph:
With the existing colonies or de-
Tendencies of any European power we
have not interfered and shall not inter
fere; but with the governments which
have declared their independence and
maintained il. and whose independence
we have on great consideration and just
principles acknowledged, we could not
view an interposition for depressing
them or controlling In any other man
ner their destiny by any European pow
er in any other light than as a manifes-
tation of an unfriendly disposition to-
ward Japan.
'Tt is Chlna's future which Is of
course most involved. Should Japan, the
conqueror, sweep all Russias armies be-
fore her, would IL not give her a mighty
hold over China, so great indeed that
the people of that vast empire would
readily assent to union bringing them
under the rule OF the progressive and
dominant power OF the Far East, an
island kingdom resembling that OF Eng
dream Of Asia for the Asiatics.' and
TO European nations the more vital
question of the Yellow Peril
"The Yellow Peril"
What is this Yellow Peril? you ask.
Consider the fact that both the great
lAnglo-Saxon nations. America and Great
Britain have adopted laws excluding the
Chinese from their shores and then con-
SlQeE the pQSSlbillllcS ~ Japan NFAN "
make the people Of that country their
subjects and were to obtain equal rights
to enter and settle Manchuria and TO
cross the 1900 miles OF Siberian frontier
separating the East from Europe The
result without a doubt would be to
turn Western civilization back upon the
Ural Mountains and to threaten all
Europe with the dreaAsd invasion Of the
Monaghan hordes. THINK what Japan
governed China would be. A patient.
persistent frugal people numbering
$50. 600 600 would be ruled by a nation Of
born organizers who, half-allied to them,
would understand their temperament
and their habits
The Oriental with his power of re-
tanning health under conditions which
no European could survive, with his In
born cunning and reckless daring. lacks
only the superior knowledge OF civili-
zation to be the equal Of the European
in warfare as well as in Industry. In
this country we do not realize that In
a Japanese dynasty such civilization
would exist.
The Emperor of Japan. perhaps by
the time this war is ended. will be the
Emperor OF all Asia