The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-05-01

and this force of active savagery living
face to fact with the careless. peaceful
Slsv. 1 recalled to him the vigorous
article of Jules Huret. and 1 concluded
Suppose. by way of hypothesis, an
impossible victory by Japan. will this not
result. as its profit, in a prominence in
the far east. and will it not exercise this
prominence to the detriment of the ideas
OF peace and civilizing progress?
Then Tolstoi spoke:
. Are the Japanese truly what you
| say? would really like to know. There
| is one author / often read over and over
again-that is Pascal. Pascal has writ
ten: No one emulates the confluence of
Alexander the Great, but one endeavors
10 emulate him in his conquests." All the
same it is highly probable that Japan
has only initiated Europe in It's defects
But 1t is what il is. with it's good quail
ties, its faults. 1t undergoes evolution
as do all peoples. 1t passes from barbar-
ism and begins to emancipate itself from
| bondage. l see it almost in the condition
of Russia under Catherine IL 1t follows
its evolution as we follow ours, and be
sure that its turn will come it will de-
general law
Japan is yellow l urged Where is
the progress of the yellow race? Look
at China. What movements are appar-
ent in its evolution during thousands of
years?"
We know little of the yellow world
Who of us has studied it. penetrated II.
searched its conscience? My view is that
the Chinese. the Hindus are not warlike
peoples. but that they despise war and
those who wage il. That is already some
thing, true superiority over US. l un-
derstand that they are not given to kill
ing; learn from the accounts of travel
lers that they are safe in business: that
they respect their word; that they do not
lie. There again is something uncom-
mon in Europe.
Turn. however. 10 their diplomacy:
crafty. willy. treacherous.'
You are right. And. besides, they
practice torture. II is strange How can
it be explained? But their PHILOSOPHERS
are derived from admirable reasonings.
Think OF Confucius. or Buddha. And If
they are cruel. are We not also? Has
any one kept count of the atrocities laid
al the door OF the pretended civilization
OF the world? Where are the acts. where
the results Of civilization in Europe Does
the world advance; does il 60 backward
Are there not hours in which one may
ask such a question AZ that When Eng
land went into the Transvaal cannot one
say that she belittled herself? Where
co you find in the deeds Of coloaizing
nations a thought of real civilization?
After that how would you have one de-
eide a priori. whether the triumph Of
such and such a race carried with IL ad-
vantage To the welfare OF humanity
Grant ne one question At this time /
when the destiny OF Russia is concerned. |
YOU, Russian. whatever you think Of
war. and Of this particular war. have
you no reservation 10 make? / DO not
say upon the ideas you have preached
all Your life, but upon their practical
application and diTusion7'
MURDER IN EVERY GUlsE Is
EXECRABLE.
None But must D. sincere ne
said smiling y dc not feel. dep within
ne AZ completely freed from tie idea OF /.
BY atavisIn. by education. / 4
fee that Il ciinss within me IN spite OF
myself II IS necessary that / call my
Judgment to intervene. that turn TO my 1
chief duty. and then J say 70 myself.
without the least reservation y. con-
science thai the Judgment o: the world
cannot surpass the Jadxmea; OF human
ity- Yes, my conscience tells ne TIA,
murder. in whatever guise IL may De
brought about, is sxecrabie. that var /