The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-06-30
WHITE RACES MUST LEARN
 LESSONS OF THE JAPANESE
From the New York Mail.

From the New York Mail
 I HE period of Chinese stagnation 0 has developed a quality, and a
 phrase to embody it. called say ing ones face" In the perpetual inter- change between the east and the west, the quality has reappeared in the oc- eident The whole attitude of the white peoples of the world on the military and naval collapse of Russia in it's en- counter with Japan has been Chinese. They have been unable or u. willing squarely to front the facts.
 They are saying now that anybody could have whipped Russia-its power a pricked bubble. How many unpricked bubbles there are among the other white powers is a question pertinent, yet un- asked. The fact remains that eighteen months ago all the nations of Europe trembled before the empire whose forces have been defeated with such humiliating eelerity by an Asiatic people. It is a com fortable conclusion to draw that Russia was deefated only because it was under autocratic rule. It saIves ones pride of race, but is it not another case of Say Ah6 OiiS ieicSt DS DlliiklHB the s+e
 
 The inference is almost inevitable that more than Russian autocracy has been found wanting in this war What the white nations of the world should under stand for their own good is that Japan has brought on a focus of modern ef- ficiency individual and racial qualities that have points of superiority over 'Cau- casianism" so called, and, in war as in peace, has justified a civilization from which the west must borrow, if it would survive the competitions of the future.
 Thus to say is not to raise a mschie- vious yellow perior' cry or foment the animosities of east and west There is only one thing more mischievous to the people than a Chinese policy of Boxerism.
 To league the white nations of the world against the advance of the yellow peo- ples, to police their seas with com posite squadron is to follow course as stagnating as Boxerism itself
 Their duty is first to ascertain the points of oriental superiority and then to appropriate them. Thus Japan did her self with both east and west. The future of all races depends on their ability to adjust themselves to new conditions and to emulate excellency wherever they find it. As Brooks Adams has said sooner or later the intellectually infexble" races perish.
 Giving the defects of Japanees civiliza- tion full account-admitting as Lafcadie l Hearn himself does that "underneath the charming multiple coverings of courtesy. of delicacy, of patience, of sweetness, of moral sentiment, there remains the prim- itive clay, hard as iron. kneaded perhaps with all the metal of the Mongol all the dangerous suppleness of the Maay"-the existence must e recognized of a social structure which in many respects may be described as the bluffs of Caucasian ism made good.
 What to a degree the white races only profess the Japanese practice. That sense of honor that passionate attachment for country, that holding of life itself as of trifiing value when a cause is at stake. the west calls "fanaticism"-b the Japanese take them seriously. But their roots are to be found partly in Christian