The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-08-28

SofdSts Hedlnen race, nave Iedu the
highfalutin enthusiastic admiration OF
them, now so common, with irritation
if not pain. We are making fools of
ourselves, or rather we are being made
fools of, by perhaps the widest, pOlit-
est, most conceited and most arrogant
people of modern times
me question OF the hour IS, not what
we think of the japanese but what the
japanese really think of US. The ques-
ZION is. What they are 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 10 express
IT. When Baron Kaneko at Carnegie
hau in New York City recently de-
cldred That this war was a religious
war, he told a truth which every states
man has recognized already, one whose
future significance is apparent to
every reader of history.
Audit is full time that we recognize
the TACT that we are touching elbows
IN the Philippines with a triumphant
pagan race which is not in syn patty,
but on the contrary is naturally at
enInity with ourselves, senli-civilized.
heather and savage people whose ideals
cIasn with our own in every particular,
who are heterogeneous to Us in every
humane and moran aspect. Before we
talk of alliance and friendship, we first
should consider the character of the
ally and friend. What then, as the
first consideration. is the Japanese
race?
AS a people, they are far below US in
the scale of evolution They represent
white IndOnesian invasion engrafted
upon Negroid stock. That there has
been negro blood in the Japanese an
cestral races is proved by the frequent
occurrence of black pigment spots on
the fiattened root of the nose of the
common people, and by the fact that
the five great daimio families, TO one OF
which every mikado has belonged, are
of white indonesian blood.
The ruling white blood Of Japan has
been maintained in its imperfect meas
Ure of purity by a social system of con-
cubinage. The mikado of today is al
lowed one high class wife and twelve
concubines. The noble princesses in
most instances are sterile, and the con-
cubines are the mothers of possible
new m1lNadOs- The present prince i'm
perial, the future mikadO, the Goldman
who is 10 be fought for and died for in
future pagan wars, has for mother
such woman The lower class blood
of the nation has more or less con-
taminated these higher bred families.
and 1t this blacker blood of the nation
which has kept alive the upper current
of society. The lower we descend
through the various social strata Of the
japanese race the blacker they appear,
until We reach the despised outcast
the curly headed Negritoid Eta
From. such a race, mixed in blood
and savage in ancestry, we naturally
should expect a low and primitive view
of woman and this we find. Woman is
the puppet and the slave. as in all
oriental countries, tempered I'm the case
OF Japan by such consideration as is
due to the mother of a warning race
With concubinage in the palace, one
naturally would look for a low order
of morality among the masses of wo-
manhood. and we find such morality
q regular part of the social system.
more solidly and completely organized.
IN fact, than in any other country Of
today.
1t therefore becomes not only inter-
esting but highly important to inquire
what ethical or moral teachings come
from these affairs. what PRINCIPLES Of
conduct. what ideas Of duty, necessarily
must guide them in their view of our
selves And BY the way Of preface a
word or two must be said as to their
most salient characteristic, the quality
which every person has had impressed
upon him who ever has had any deal
1ngs with a Japanese. This is the
quality which invaria bly, ACCOMPANIES
quick intelligence and low cunning.
viz, that generalization of oneself
which we call conceit and arrogance.
10 them we are and always will be
western baTbarians. Neenly apprecia-
tive of all we have learned. they vet as
a nation laugh at us for what we are
intimately knew in Japan Il graduate
Of Harvard. who returned to his own
country in silk hat, creased trousers.
all the external embellishments of our
civilization. which he wore for a DAY
or two with the pride of the traveller
and cynical amusement of the true
japanese One day afterward. at his
home, / found him squatting bare leg
in "a ion
and kimono. His cynical. contemptu-
Gus smile when I referred to the change
was the rarely revealed but true opinion
OF us which pervades all Japan
nation of hyDOcrites and liars in all
their dealings with us, this fact best
and most undeniabIy appears from their
own literature.
The relation. between China and ia
pan is an extraordinary close one
United by descent. by topographic writ
ing. by religion and by tradition thew
are and win prove to be one single
nation as against the rest Of the world:
and Korea is the third party to a
national union, The Chinese despise
the japanese. the japanese despise the
Cnlnese; but these are merely the
superficial national cOnceits that never
Tor moment viii stand in the way Of
an alliance for mutual interest as
against the western barbarians" as
they call US I'm Japan, the foreign
DEVILS as they call us in China ia
pan 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
Gordon proved to the satisfaction of
all. What an awakened China, organ
lied and armed by Japan, can DO in
the east, it needs no imagination to
picture. And what she will do IS so
certain that no rational man attempts
to deny it. Asia for the Asiatics."
IS not only a natural cry; it would
be difficult TO say that il is not a lust
| cry The two most important things
which we have taken to China were
equally undesired, opium and religion.
poison in one hand and religion in the
other.
And SO the reckoning is coming and
must come. Russia today is the bull
wark of Christianity in Europe fight
ing against the renaissance of pagan
ism As long as she viii fight things
are we'll But should she make a pusil-
luminous peace with Japan-Japan I'M
conquered, nor exhausted nor defeated
IN single battle-all civilized nations
VIII have TO take the consequences. and
the consequences viii show themselves
without delay. Germany. France. Hol-
land and America viii learn what is