New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-06-27
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
Is THERE A YELLOW PERIL2
Considerations Why 1t Is Not To Be Feared
if 1t Exists.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Ex-Ninister Heard believes there is, and he
IS eminent and well posted. With all respect TO
observations desire TO say cannot realize 1t. 1t
Is right for those who take this View TO give their
reasons, If they have any. and it is right that the
other side should be permitted an expression. Still
know that facts and reason cannot create
agreement. After centuries of research and dis
cussion many intelligent people believe it is sinful
10 eat fridays. and many especially intel
hgent people feel no such scruples. II has be-
come habituated to feeling the yellow peril, neither
he nor l help it: put while il is in the process
OF forming. and before II becomes hard suggestion
may influence
This eminent calls attention to the yilanous
treatment the yellow has long endured and is
still enduring from the whites. with white plans
10 make II more and more extensive and CALLING,
and he intellectually tustifes Japan in her present
for national existence, but does conceal
his desire that she should not really win in the
struggle. He believes that with success she will
lose both her head and her morals-that she and
China viii soon become as aggressive and tyranni-
His view is that human nature is such that one
race must necessarily domineer over the other and
abuse II and the only practical question is winch
l believe should influence that each
should mutually respect the natural rights OF
the other. History does not show the yellow race
race, and this fact should weigh heavily in dis
ias GGes9n Should not statf r ST a aS see
the peril and TO recognize its extreme danger
in wishing to continue TO tyrannize that por-
ton of China agreed between Russia and her
self Her fear is that If the japanese can make the
Russian lose his hold China she NAV be com
PEELED TO abandon her uTholy grip. too To be com
PEELED TO deal justly with the yellow race Is all the
peril either Of those nations feela kind OF peril
that do sYmpathiZe with.
Under such circumstances, 1t is very natural tnat
the Emperor William should have assured Russia
OF his cordial aid In Gaze of need" l. e, In case
the 9aDs were likely TO clear Manchuria OF the
Russian army. The United States and Great Brit
ain should say: Hands off; let Japan give the Bear
his deserved thrashing. If she can ! desire to
the yellow able 10 take its rights; II Is
very evident the white race is not in the mood OF
granting them. What is TO be the end? hope In
my Utmost heart this viii be the end attained: L
conditions to be such that the yellow and
white races will have the same respect for each
other that exists between the TeutOn and the Celt
Let be just. Let admit that China ought to
have the privilege Of debating what traders should
exist within her borders. precisely as the United
States Germany would. Suppose there is an
irreconcilable difference between the yellow race
and the white; this does not make il necessary
that one race should tyrannize the other and
abuse st. If So let frankly own that freeing
Horace Greeley and Charles Sumner deserve severe
But here is another yellow peril" peril that
my heart Is not contracted enough to realize and
feel: I cannot feel that the awakenings OF emma
and her general adoption of Western education
and reforms would in any way be deplorable or
threatening. This is the commercial and indus,
trial yellow terror as bad as to have industriai
and commercial competition between Germany ana
the United States SAMUEL BLODGETT.
Laduc. Alta Canada. June 20. 1894.