The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-08-10

passed The evolution of civilization,
the measure and the standards Of civil
izatiOn. are as clearly defined as the
evolution of the measure and standards
of naval construction.
That the japanese, nation Of idol
ators, with d moral code in exact cor
rcspondence with their religious evo-
luton, should call themselves civilized
and their condition civilization is so
insane an idea that it makes one Won
der at their intelligence. Our own
state of civilization leaves much TO
criticisc, but it is as distinctly and as
undeniably high above theirs as has
been every scientific attainment OF
ours which they have been so eager
to obtain and adopt. But this honest
view. this insane conceit of theirs, is
an impressive fact which never should
he forgotten. 1t will count for much
when the clash comes which must
come inevitably. That the two civ
ilizations, as he is pleased to call them,
can never commingle Kaneko and all
the japanese clearly see, and it is full
time that we realize this as clearly and
as practically as they do,
That China is awakening, the daily
dispatches tell us in various ways.
That the triumph of the brown man
over the white is certain to infiame
the whole cast, nobody but a fool can
doubt Its ultimate effect upon India
is question which concerns us only
indirectly and is yet distant But his
effect upon China is q question of the
utmost Importance at the present time.
The relation between China and ia
pan is an extraordinarily close one.
United by descent, by Geographic writ
ing, by religion and by tradition, they
are and will prove to be one single
nation as against the rest of the world;
and Corea is the third party to ma
tional union. The Chinese despise the
Japanese, the japanese despise the
Chinese; but these are merely the SUI
perficial national conceits that never
! for moment will stand in the way of
an alliance for mutual interest as
against the western Barbarians." as
they call us in Japan, the foreign
devils, as they call us in China. Japan
| has now eliminated all foreign officials
in her employment and her Industries;
she is able, she thinks, to stand alone,
That the Chinese, properly drilled and
armed, make excellent soldiers, Cor
don proved to the satisfaction of all.
| What an awakened China, organized
and armed by Japan, can do in the
east, 1t needs no imagination to picture.
| And what she will do is so certain that
no rational man attempts to deny 1t,
Asia for the Asiatios!" is not only a
natural cry; it would be difficult to
say that it is not just cry. The two
most important things which we have
taken to China were equally undesired
opium and religion; poison is one
hand and religion in the other.
And so the reckoning is coming and
must come, Russia to-day is the bull
wark of Christianity in Europe, fight
ing against the renaissance of pag-,
anism. AS long as she will fight
things are well. But should she make
pusillanimous peace with Japan
Japan unconquered, nor exhausted nor
defeated in a single battle-all civil
lized nations will have to take the con-
! sequences, and the consequences will
EIlO" lIlClltSClFtS NIAtlouI uCiClS' HGl~
many, France, Holland, and America
will learn what is coming to them in
clear terms. England, as Japan's ally,
will learn the lesson last, and from
all present indications will be the last
and heaviest sufferer.
| Russia is the natural ally of Japan.
| The Russians know them best, should
stand between them and the western
world, buffer state not from the mil
| itary viewpoint, but the viewpoint of
civilization. The Russian Greek
church is the only form Of Christianity
which ever has appealed or ever will
appeal to Japan, the only one which
ever has made any real Roadway
among them. Taiko Sauna, who cru
Gifted thirty thousand Christians in
Japan, has been sainted and deified
and for no other reason is he among
the gods which the Japanese worship
to-day. Who but fool will talk Of
Friendship and alliance with such a
people?
Japan is dominated intellectually to-
day by China without the Chinese
compardore, Japanese finance never
could have been developed nor could
it be conducted to-day. The bulk of
the japanese people even the better
and foreign educated element, the ply
sicians who practice our western
science of medicine, are beholden still,
lin soul and body, to China, and to
China's moral code. From the view
Ipoint of our civilization the ancestor
worship of both countries, even though
it may make the Japanese eminent In
war, is equally the curse of both ma
lions, carrying with it, as 1t doss, a
code of morals which could not be more
cruel, more ruthless or more pagan,
as far as we are concerned than it
is to-day.
The victory of Japan over Russia
must inevitably cry Halt" to our
progress in Asia. We shall court the
friendship of the Japanese because as
their neighbors, we are tied to Asia by
the Philippines. But our exclusion of
the Chinese must sooner or later be fol-
lowed by our exclusion of the Japanese,
and Japan will protest as China Is pro-
testing, A riot in Hawaii, above all a
riot in Manila, will be all that Is need
ed to provoke the clash. The Philip
pines are our weak point, and there is
no doubt that highly as we have paid
for them we have not yet begun to pay