The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-08-18
Says Triumph Of Japan
Sounds Doom Of America
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CBy A. S. Ashmead, Director OF To-
kio Hospital in Japan.)


kio Hospital in Japan-)
The japanese, for our own good,
should be neither Oyerestimated nor
underTalued BY US. I am not pro-
Russian am simply American; but
I am one OF those Americans who
having lived among this savage
heather race, have read the highfalu-
tin enthusiastic admiration OF them,
now 50 common, with irritation IL not
pain We are making fools OF our
selves or rather we are being made
fools OF, by perhaps the widest, po-
Htest, most cOnceited and most AFRO
CANT 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 question is, What are they going
to do to US and with US, and with
other civilized nations now 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
l city recently declared that this war
was a religious war, he told a truth
| which every statement has recognized
/ already, one whose future significance
/ is apparent to every reader OF his
/ tory.
| ana II LQ4L uLIl6 LL6LL we recognize
1 the fact that We are touching elbows
/ in the Philippines with a triumphant
| pagan race which is not in sympathy,
/ but on the contrary is naturally at
j enmity with ourselves, a semi-civili-
zeds heather and savage people whose
/ ideals clash with our own in every
i particular, who are heterogeneous to
US in every humane and moral aspect.
| Before we talk Of alliance and friend
ship, we first should consider the
character Of the ally and friends.
What then, as the first consideration,
is the japanese race?
As a people, they are far below US
| in the scale Of evolution. They repre-
sent a white Indonesian invasion en-
| grated upon a Negrold stock That
| there has been negro blood in the
| japanese ancestral races is proved by
the frequent occurrence Of black pig
| ment spots on the fattened root Of
| the nose Of the common people, and
| by the fact that the five great daimio
families, to one Of which every mika-
! do has belOned, are Of white IndOne-
sian blood.
The ruling white blood Of Japan
has been maintained in its imperfect
| measure Of purity by a social system
Il Of cOncubinage- The mikado Of to-
/ day is allowed one high-cIass wife and
twelve concubines. The noble prin-
cess in most instances are sterile, and
| the cOncubines are the mothers Of
Il possible new mikadOs. The present
/ prince imperial, the future mikado,
the Goldman who is to be fought for
and died for in future pagan wars,
i has for mother such a woman. The
| lOwer-class blood OF the nation has
| more or less contaminated these
| higher-bred families, and il 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 Jap
| anese race the blacker they appear,
| until we reach the despised outcast,
/ the curly-headed Negritold Eta
From such race, mixed in blood
| and savage in ancestry, we naturally
| should expect q low and primitive
/ view Of woman, and this we find
/ Woman is the puppet and the slave,
Il as in all Oriental countries, tempered
/ in the case Of Japan by such cOnsid-
| Grafton as is due to the mother Of
4 warning race With cOncubinage in
| the palace, one naturally would look
/ for a low order Of morality among
| the masses Of wOmanhood, and we
| find such a morality a regular part Of
/ the social system, more solidly and
completely organized, in fact, than in
any other country Of today.
| It therefore becomes not only in
| teresting but highly important to in
/ quire what ethical or moral teach
| ings come from these affairs, what
principles Of conduct, what ideas Of
duty, necessarily must guide them in
l their view Of ourselves and their fu-
/ ture dealings with ourselves. And by
| the way Of preface a word or two
! must be said as to their most salient
/ characteristic, the quality Tfch every
/ person has had impressed upon him
who ever has had any dealings with
a japanese. This is the quality which
invariably accompanies quick intel
Iigence and low cunning viz, that
| generalization OF oneself which we call
cOnceit and arrogance.
To them we are and always viii be
western barbarians. keenly appre-
ciative Of all we have learned, they
yet as a nation laugh at US for what
We are. I intimately knew in Japan
a graduate Of Harvard, who returned
to his own country in a silk hat,
creased trousers, all the external en-
bellishments Of our civilization, which
ne wore for a day or two with the
pride OF the traveller and the cynical
amusement Of the true japanese One
day afterward, at his home, I found
him squatting bare-legged on a mat
in regulation suspensOry and kimono.
His cynical, cOntemptuOus smile when
referred to the change was the
rarely revealed but true opinion Of US
which pervades all japan
A nation OF hypOcrites and liars in
all their dealings with US, this fact
best and most undeniably appears from
their own literature
The relation between China and Jap
an is an extraordinarily close one l
United bydescent, by Geographic writ /
ing, BY religion and by tradition, they |
are and win prove to be one single |
nation as against the rest OF the
world and Korea is the third party |
TO national union. The Chinese de- /
spise the japanese. the japanese de-
spise the Chinese but these are me-
rely the superficial national conceits l
that never for a moment viii stand in 4
the way OF an alliance for mutual /
interest as against the Western Bar /
barians," as they call Us in Japan,
TIE -fOEein devils as they call Us I
IN China Japan has now eliminated /
AL foreign officials in her employment /
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