The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-10-07
JAP'S KNOWLEDGE
GIVES HIM POWER
The Recent Achievement Of the
Army Shows His Belief in
This Principle.
ARE BRAClNG THE WORLD
Though the Japanese Have Their
Faults II Is Their Virtues That
Will Raise Them and Raise
the World.

Chicago Tribune: The Japanese are
bracing the world. Already street con-
| versation is producing wisdom to this
effect: 1.-The Japs are wonders; it's up
| to u.s."
feeling of superiority does not
| brace Comic opera Japanese. no ko.
! Pish Tush and Pooh Bah, left the world
| comfortable. Real Japanese. Ito, Togo
| and Oyama, bring the world up on its
| toes.
The first Japanese quality to be rec
ognized by the western world was
taste. Mr.. Kipling. travelling through
Japan and with rough hands and
muddy boots recoiling before the Jap
anese merchant, apostrophized that
merchant thus:
You are much too clean and refined
for this life below and your house is
unfit for a man to live in till he has
learned lot of things which l have
never been taught. | hate you because
l feel inferior to YOU.
The Japanese has way of Elanicur-
ing his nails before he goes into bat
tie. He also has way OF writing
poems like an Athenian while he is
toughening his fiber by exposure to the
weather like a Spartan His gardens.
his vases. all the things that make life
| an art and q pleasure in itself. have
caused the western world to look with
dubious but enlightened eyes at it's
! jammed crammed Conservatives and
at it's profuse, tangled mantelpieces.
| Is it better for US that Japan should
| be able to teach US something or that
| we should have the glory of having no
superiors in anything?
Flattery to Call Them Soldiers.
II have seen scores of persons with
spectacles." said Kipling. whom it
were base hattery to call soldiers. Their
officers were as misera BILE a set of men
as Japan could furnish, specialized, un-
dersized, hollow backed and hump
shouldered They squeaked their word
Of command and had to trOt by the side
of their men to keep up with them"
Where did those officers get their
spectacles? Reading books which the
officers who fought the Beers had new
err seen.
The efficiency which is conquerine
Manchuria was based on a belief In
knowledge. Did Germany have a lab
oratory in which chemicals for com
merce and for war were handled in a
way not yet known in Japan? a Jap
anese enrolled himself among the stu
dents in that laboratory. Did Chca-
go have new method of canning
beef? Japanese with spectacles ar
rived on sight seeing tour.
knowledge as Il preliminary to aC-
tion--the whole recent history of the
Japanese shows their profound belief
in this principle.
When the western world had grant
ed the Japanese taste and knowledge
it still hesitated to grant them cour-
age.
az would give n good deal" said Mr.
Kipling, '.to see them blooded on ar
equal number of our native Cast In
/. diam infantry. If they have pluck
Il and there Is not much in their pas
| Ia, S,1, hot 1,oyrn rot
they ought to be first class enemies
Under British officers. instead of ths
little anatomies at present provided
they should be as good as any troop:
recruited east Of SueZ."
!, Criticism Now Runs the Other Way
Criticism now runs the other way
The Japanese are reproached for want
y ing to die. They don't care about thei
wives and children. They set no NOR
Il value on life than savages. The,
charge machine guns like fanatics, ant
i when they are captured they beat on
their brains against stone walls lik
children. They do. And they probab
of suicide after capture. They simpl
feel unanimously that they wish the,
: were dead with their brothers in arm
: rather than alive among their enemie
7 with their food in their stomachs. I
! is feeling worth few suicides t
VI This Is after all the supreme Japa
> ,nese characteristic.
There are Japanese who went t
Europe. studied in the European lab
oratories. laid the foundations of ex
tensive personal regulations, and ar
ment laboratories with no more glor
than II they were labeled No. 1875 o
No. 25s.
Love. as we'll as ambition, yields t
patriotism. The Japanese wives low
their husbands. But they love Japa
more So when their husbands ar
conscripted they put out flags and ar
lenvied by their neighbors.
It is law Of the biological worl
that disconnected cells are lower tina
organism in which multitude Q
cells are subordinated to an in
Japan is such an organism. The Japa
, nese is a mere cell. And in being
mere cell he attains higher than If h
lived to himself
The Japanese have their faults. Onl
their virtues have been mentioned herr
because it is their virtues that wi
raise them and raise the world.
Have Their Faults.
II the Japanese We're uncouth, ig
! norant. cowardly, and unpatriotic Their
would be no talk about the yello,
) peril, and the western world would b
invited to repose on the lotus bed {
superiority. AS things are. the wester
l world is invited to resent the prove
/. fact that the Japanese have tast
t knowledge, courage and love of cour
try to SO preeminent degree as
make US feel uncomfortable. We ougl
t to be grateful to the Japanese for mai
: ing us feel uncomfortable. The man
/, fest destiny of the yellow peril is not
: subdue the western world, but to in
Y prove it. Thank heaven there is OF
: more nation worthy to share the bul
v den of this planets future!
y The Japanese have learned from u
e If we are as wise as they are we ca
s learn some things from them. Tast
IF knowledge. courage, patriotism-a
d not the Japanese sending an electr
ID current through the nerves that nouri.
Is these things in the bosom of every ms