The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-06
FAR EASTERN POLITICAL SITUATION As IT rs
The Yellow Peril Bogy..
Japan Must Have
Friends.

TOKIO-The absorbing topic Of the
hour is the result Of Japanese victory
in the present struggle with Russia.
All talk turns to the outcome of the
first success of Oriental arms against
European power The alarmists are
raising loud cry of warning. They
assert that the first taste of triumph
will set on fire the blood of the
Asiatics and cause them to run amuck.
have to scramble for cover when the
leash is broken which holds in check
the gaunt hound of the East. I over
heard Messrs. Blank and Dash thresh-
ing out this subject at the club.
Blank was a red-hot alarmist. thor
oughly frightened by the ghost of the
Yellow Peril.
"a SWEEPING YELLOW TIDE
Here's something which is as true
as gospel" said Blank, pulling a
bunch of clippings from his pocket
and reading the following: 'The
whole face of the world will be
changed when tie oriental skaters
the prestige of the white race in Asia.
The time is soon to come when our
name will be a by-word and a kissing
among the teeming millions of the
East The whites have taught the
yellow men the use of edged tools and
now the pupils are preparing to turn
these instruments against their teach
ers. Occidental nations are losing
their grip on Oriental lands and the
Asiatics are printing themselves for
a conquest of the world. The next
half-century will see a sweeping
yellow tide driven by economic neces-
.sity, pressing resistlessly through
Manchuria, down through Formosa to
the Philippines and the islands of the
East Indies, thence across Australia
and the Pacific to Hawaii and Amer
ica Room. Room. Room! will be
the cry of the swarming millions made
desperate by centuries of abject
poverty and fierce internal strife
Pausing a moment to witness the eff
feet of this dire prophesy upon his
hearers. Blank selected a clipping
from an European paper and continued
ceded that the japanese are foes who
must be taken far more seriously than
they are generally regarded. The in
terests of Europe and the whole civil
lized world depend upon Russia's
success in this war. Too much can
not be said regarding the great dan
ger which final victory for Japan and
her establishment as the dominant
power in East Asia-as protector and
guide of China and her 400,OOO,000 in
habitants-wou1d involve to Europeis
economic and political interests. We
idea is understood of the greatness OF
the peril in store for the white race
and it's civilization in the event OF
Japan's obtaining the upper hand.
Evidence is already shown that even
the United States Of America, which
let all it's sympathies go out to Japan
it's official neutrality,
and deemed it's interests served by a
triumph of Japan over Russia, is now
with a certain anxiety
the risk even to itself arising from an
japanese success in the Far
East"
THE WORM WILL TURN.
Blank then selected a third clipping !
and said: Now listen to this!
Here's proof to back UP these state
A dispatch from Canton tells !
of retaliatory measures being taken /
against the Americans on account or
their excluding the Chinese. A num- |
Der of resolutions We're passed which, IL /
put into effect, will prove most incon- !
venient to American trade. These re- |
prisals were ID That all purchases of /
American imports be suspended. (2) !
That all Chinese subjects in the en-
pIoy of Americans resign at once. |
(3) That no labor be provided for |
loading or unloading American ships, |
DR. ships carrying American goods
.I'n tell you gentlemen" continued
Blank, this thing is beginning 10
ook serious. 1t won't be long until |
foreigner will have no show here at all.
The day is not far distant when this
country will be too hot for a white
nan. Mark what I tell YOU"
THE REMARKS OF MIR. DASH.
Then Blank rested his case and
Dash, the conservative, replied as FOL
ows: 1.-The Yellow Peril pub'icists and
heir sympa thizers become SO excited
n making their arguments that they
ide wild theories over every oarr:e-
# fact The idea that Japan Will at
empt to march her victorious army
Ialf way around the world is the vAri-