Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-09
VITALITY OF YELLOW RACE.
It Can Flourish in All Climates More
Vigorous Than White Race.

Correspondence Of the London Spectator.
Before the foundations of Rome were laid
there a homogeneous people dwelling
in China with form of government and
no mean degree of civilization. Rome -four
ished for eleven centuries and became the
empire of the western world then decayed
and passed away, and her civilization be-
came the heritage of others. But China re-
mains as a united empire to this day. In
this marvellous continuity in the past lies
the promise of the future.
1t took the nations of Europe 1900 years
to advance from barbarism to their present
position. 1t took the Japanese, branch
Of the yellow race, generation to adopt
and apply all the best results of this long
struggle We are told that when the pres
ent Emperor Of Japan was a boy the sort
of training that was supposed to fit him for
the part he was to be allowed to take in
the government of his country was making
artificial flowers He is only now just over
middle age, yet he rules constitutional
monarch over an empire with which the
most advanced and. most powerful empire
of the west was glad to form alliance as
with an equal. His navy has driven the
Russian flag from the China seas. On land
the tactics and strategy, the endurance,
self-sacrifice and bravery, the care for the
wounded in the field and the splendid hos
pital arrangements of the Japanese army
the admiration of the civilized world.
In the world S history there is nothing like
the advance of Japan in the last genera
ton. We see some of the results of the
adoption of the civilization Of the west by
thirty millions of the yellow race. Will
any one who really knows him venture to
say that the Chinaman is less well equip
ped, mentally and physically, than the Jap
anese? What, then, will be the result when
the five hundred millions of China follow
the example of their kindred of Japan? On
the northern borders of China the white
and yellow races have been face to face for
some time. and the advantage appeared to
be with the white. But the tide soon turned,
and today the aggressive armies of the
white cZar, under his ablest generals, have
had to retire, hopelessly beaten, before the
yellow race. These are the long shadows
which the coming event-the advance OF the
yellow race-casts before 1t for the infor-
nation of those who care to see.
The white race can only live, flourish and
reproduce itself without deterioration in
countries where 1t can labor without the
help of colored races-i e., in cold or tenn
perate cimates-therefore the sphere of it's
existence is limited On the other hand the
yellow race can live, work, thrive and re-
produce itself without deterioration in any
country in the world. The yellow man can
adapt himself to his surroundings, whether
it be the cold of the north or the heat of
the tropics His equipment is all In his
favor. He is intelligent hardy, frugal and
industrious, and his instincts are those of
the permanent settler. The Chinese branch
of the race never were fighters. They left
fighting to others and went on cultiVating
the soil, reapng where they had sown.
The phrase the meek shall inherit the
earth has a more extended meaning and
application than it usually obtains, and the
history of China Is proof of Its truth.
Timur and Ghengis Khan, and the many
others who invaded China We're not of the
meek of the earth. Their empires have
passed away like a tale that is told and
hardly a trace of them is left; but the
Chinaman remains still where history first
finds him. The Chinese are not by instinct
a fighting race Uhough they may well be
trained to war, Gordon's Ever Vic
torious Army proved yet they dom
inant race withal
If a Chinaman marries a white woman in
Australia or America, a Malay woman
in the straits, the children take after the
father, hardly ever after the mother. Horde
after horde from the north and west in
Vaded and conquered China; alien dynasty
after alien dynasty occupied the throne;
but it had but passing and superficial eff
feet on the Chinese. The Chinaman did not
adopt the ways nor language of the con-
querers; they adopted his, and often be-
came more Chinese than aborigine The
successive invading hordes were absorbed
by the Chinese as rivers are absorbed by
the sea, and the Chinaman always re-
manned Every one who has been to China
knows how he felt himself fascinated and
dominated by the land and it's people. The
teeming millions of China will not always
stay at home, and the nations of the world
cannot always go on shutting their doors
against them.
The final racial fight will be between the
white and yellow races. But it will be q
war of peace" unless the white race
chooses, as in the present war, to make it
other. 1t is a significant fact that the
white black and red races are on the de-
crease all over the world and the yellow
race is increasing. This world existed prob
ably for countless ages before the first man
appeared on it-where his home was, and
what his color, who can say?-and it may
exist for countless ages after the last man
has passed away: but everything points to
that last man being of the yellow race.