The Cairo bulletin., 1904-11-26
THE ABSURDITY or THE VEL
LOW PERIL.

! A fight, whether il be between two
street dogs. two giadiators or two ma
lions, has always had its elements OF
I keenest interest for the Onlookers It
may be the savage which fingers in
as and which no amount of book
training can eradicate but we love
the clash of arms, the onset and the
battle cry. And as we love a fight, so
with almost equal surety is our sym
nathy with the weaker natien, the
little man or the under dog That i
why three-f0urths OF the mon whc
are watching the contest in the cas-
will tell you they are hurrahing for
the Jap beeau he is such a little
fellow. But TO the student of world
history there comes this question;
VIII the Jap continue to be little
fellow ii his banner be the yictori
Gus one at the close of this war? Is
there or Is there not a yellow Peril
crouching under the red sun ready
to spring upon the world and devour
It's Institutions. its governments, its
very civilization? Archaeologists tell
us that civilizations have succeeded
civilizations in the history of the
world and none of them have been
adamantine. They point 20 Nine
yeh, 70 Babylon and TO Egypt they
cite to us the glory that was Greece
and the splendor and grandeur that
was Rome" and they tell us with
lrasiic emphasis that what has been
will he again. that this splendid deve'
)pment. this marvellous culture which
we know today will in its turn &
down to the dust of oblivion and leave
only some sphinx-faced monolith
above the drifting sands 10 tell .he
story of our mental achievements
But since Japan is bidding fair to
come of victor in the war with Rus.
STA these students Of archaeology
have found new vampire that Is r
suck the heart blood Of the word.
It IL the Monaghan, the yellow Per
ll'' out OF the east They say that II
Japan beats Russia back she will ey.
entually dominate China; that in half
century China will be "Japanned;
and that then, with the proper and IN
evitable impetus, the yellow horde
win sweep in a vast human tidal
wave across the world. leaving in It's
wake only the debris of our boosted
civilization or that deluEe the Josh.
boa. will be the ark. and the stork the
dove; Confucius will displace the
Man Of Gallilee. and the banner Of
the red sun will eclipse tho Star of
! Bethlehem. In short, the whole
world will be Chino-Japanese. This
is what the jaundice-eyed prophets
are forecasting for tho future. We
would like to answer the prophecy
with the story of the Frenchman.
who said TO Paddy of Cork "Out OF
my way. you clod-hopper; or III wipe
up the floor with youi" And the i'm
perturhable Paddy answered: And,
pray. what would | be doing while
you was doin' the wipin'?" That is
the answer to the yellow Peril"
scarecrow- would the Latins
the Teu.ons. the AnglO-Saxons. the
proudest races the world has ever
seen-what would they be doing
while the Monaghan was wiping up
the earth with them? The Occidental
/ is something Of a wiper himself The
/ Yellow Peril is a bug-a-boo. a scare
head something to conjure with for
/ pastime. but not 20 be taken into &C
count as a probability or even as
/ possibility. r. will take something
more than pig tails and chop-sticks to
derail the great car Of progress on
which we are travelling aud whose
stopping places always seem to be
far ahead The day will never dawn
when the world viii have no forks on
its dinner table and no perspective
in its art: for even if the militant Ill
tie island kingdom should mobilize
China and become a world-conquerer.
her ambition would be TO initiate and
not to destroy us. in art. in science,
in all development. she would wish TO
become "alle samee Mclean man. -
I Memphis Commercial-Appeal.