The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-10
THE SUCCESS OF JAPAN.
TOUCHING ELBOWS WITH 4 P.4-
GAN RACE.
A Fact to be Recognized in the Possess
sion OF the Philippine Isfands-A
"HaIt to Our Progress in Asia"

z sion OF the philippine Islands,
"HaIt to Our Progress in Asia"
It is our custom to invest those whom
we may admire in some one respect
with admirable qualities in all other
respects. The small japanese nation,
engaged in conflict with the great Rus
sian, early won our sympathathies.
and the steady success of the former
has excited our admiration as their
Yalor and devotion have aroused our
enthusiasm.
For year our press and people have
been active in praise of the Japanese
training, the japanese home life and
the general japanese method of doing
things. A people who can produce a
Togo, an Oyama and a Kuroki must
be, we have agreed, a great people, and
we have been inclined and are still in
clined to so regard them in all national
respect. In so doing we are making. in
my opinion, a great national mistake
a mistake which may lead to serious
consequences in our future relations
with the far east, and one which
should be corrected as soon as possible.
should be neither overestimated nor
undervalued by us. l am not pro-
Russian-I am simply American; but
! am one of those Americans who hav-
ing lived among this savage, heather
race, have read the highfaiuting.
enthusiastic admiration of them, now
SO common, with irritation if not pain.
We are making fools of ourselves, or
rather we are being made fools of, by
perhaps the widest, politest, most con-
ceited and most arrogant people of
modern times.
The question of the hour is, not what
We think of the Japanese but what the
Japanese really think of us. The ques-
ton Is. What are they going to do to
us and with us, and with other civilized
nations, nows that the savage millions
Of Japan and China have learned their
strength and are armed with the best
modern weapons with which to express
it? When Baron Kaneko at Carnegie
hall In New York city recently declared
that this war was religious war, he
told truth which every statesman has
recognized already, one whose future
significance is apparent to every reader
OF history.
And 1t is full time that we recognize
the fact that we are touching elbows
inthe Philippines with triumphant
pageant race which Is not in sympathy
but on the contrary is naturally at en-
nifty with ourselves, a semi-civflized
heather and savage people whose ideals
clash with our own in every particular,
who are heterogene to us in every
humane and moral aspect. Before we
talk Of alliance and friendship, we first
should. consider the character of the
ally 5and friend. What then as the first
consideration, is the japanese race?
AS people, they are far below us in
the scale of evolution. They represent
a white Indonesian invasion engrafted
upon a Negroid stock. That there has
DsE7r negro blood in the Japanese an
cestral races is proved by the fire.
quent occurrence of black pigment
spots on the fiattened root of the nose
of the common people, and by the fact
that the five great daimio families, to
one of which every mikado has be-
longed, are Of white indonesian blood
The ruling white blood of Japan has
been maintained In its imperfect meas
ure OF purity by social system of
concubinage. The mikado of to-day is
allowed one high-class wife and twelve
concubines. The noble .princesses in
most Instances are sterile, and the con-
cubineS are the mothers of possible new
mikados The present Prince Imperial,
the future 'mikado, the Goldman who is
he fOI1rGf FOR ND HioI in ,rt.
pagan wars, has for mother such a
woman. The lower-class blood of the
nation has more or less contaminated
these higher-bred families, and it is
this blacker blood of the nation which
has kept alive the upper current of So
ciety. The lower we descend through
the various social strata of the Japa-
nese race the blacker they appear, I'M
til we reach the despised outcast, the
clrly-headed Negritoid Eta.
From such a race mixed in blood
and savage In ancestry, we naturally
should expect a low and primitive view
OF woman, and this we find Woman is
the puppet and the slave, as in all
Oriental countries, tempered in the
case Of Japan by such consideration as
M tllS 1lIOtl1CA u Id warrior race,
With eoncubinage in the palace one
naturally would 1oko for low order of
morality among the masses of woman
hood: and we find such a morality a
regular part of the social system, more
solfdly and completely organized, in
fact. than in any other country of to-
day.
This, however, is but single ramifi-
cation Of moral or ethical code which
represents the very soul of the nation,
and which will be astonishing to many
readers.The idea of any people rep
Sesents the heart of the people, the
basis of public opinion, the goal toward
which progress is making it's way. Our
own Is the Christian ideal, Christ upon
Calvary, the ideal of loving one an
other, of bearing one another'es bur-
dens. To porperly appreciate the I'M
brideable chasm that lies between us
and the Japanese one has only to con-
trast this ideal with theirs.
They are nation of idolators Their
religions are two, Buddhism and Shin
toisnl In spite Of the softenfng in
fitences of Buddhism since the sixth
century, the Japanese heart has re-
manned savage, and is as much so now