Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-14
JAPANESE ARE FIGHTING
"WHITE MANS BATTLE"
DR.. Henderson Takes Exception to an
Editorial Argument in the Los
AnueIes Times


LOS ANGELES, March 12.-(Editor
Herald: The Los Angeles Times of
the 18th inst. makes some comments on
the war that the writer thinks will
mislead public opinion. 1t states that
the Russians are fighting the white
mans battle Which is so contrary
to history and all the facts that led
up to the present war, as the writer
sees them, that he wants to say good
word for the Japs.
Indeed, it is Japan who is fighting
the white mans battle" She is not
only fighting the white mans battle"
but the battle for Christian civilization
and human liberty, and for all that
affects the welfare of the human race
in civil, commercial, industrial, educa
tional and religious liberty.
Heather Japan has proved herself to
be a better exponent Of modern civil
ization and religious liberty than bar
barous Russia, which is Christian only
in name, symbol and ceremony. Her
religion, instead of being Christian, is
largely ceremony, tyranny and oppres-
sion. The government of Russia is
lawless and anarchic, and breeds an
archists as filth breeds disease, and al
ways will, unless Japan or the anarch-
lists teach them that law and order
and modern civilization is the better
way. A pool may become so filthy that
it oxidizes and purifes itself. If the
Japanese are successful it will be a
great blessing to Russia-a new Russia
with better government.
That the government is lawless and
breeds anarchy is very clearly stated
in "The Russian Crisis" an article in
Saturdays Times, which varies great
ly from the editorial comment.
y The success of Russia in this war
would be the greatest calamity that
could happen to Russia, paradoxical as
1t may seem, for it would continue the
awful corrupt misrule that has pre-
vailed in Russia for centuries. 1t would
also be the greatest calamity that
could happen to the human race ami
the world, for its dire effects would be
worldwide 1t would be a terrible
blow to the religion of Jesus, which is
stition, ceremony and priestcraft of the
Greek church. 1t would be a great
blow to the onward progress OF modern
civilization, commercial prosperity,
open door and human freedom.
If we must have either the yellow
(,xrIa inl1
barism and oppression in the Orient,
give us the yellow peril by all means;
it will be a thousand times better 1t
will be an opening of doors to human
progress, as well as commercial pros
perity; it will mean a new China, Korea
and Siberia, as we'll as a new Japan;
it will mean not only modern civiliza-
ton and Christianity for the millions
of China, Korea and Japan but also
great gathering of industrial and
commercial prosperity and wealth on
the shores of the Pacific, as there is
now about the shores of the Atlantic.
The United States are responsible for
Russia's reverses in China. Our Com
modore Perry made it possible for
Japan to get taste of modern civil
ization, and she has been an apt
scholar. Many of her leading men are
devout Christians. Her face is set to-
ward the light and she is not goirg
back. "Thats what's the matter"
with Kuropatkin; "he's up against" a
phase of modern civilization that Is
new and perplexng to him, but grati-
flying and reassuring to the rest Of
the world.
Japan has made more progress since
Perry let in the light than Russia has
I'm the last two or three centuries. The
world has nothing to fear, from Japan,
but has reason to congratulate itself
that 1t has a Japan in the Orient.
What the world does need fear is
the Russian peril, or the yellow peril
Russianized. Suppose Russia triumphs
and the millions of Japan, China and
Korea come under the iron heel of law