The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-08-06

European ideals and have aSsimilated
the best phases of western progress to
an astonishing degree of perfection Is
there anything in Japan's conduct dur
ing the present war that savors of bar
barism? There is no sense to the ar
gument that if Orientals are educated
they will become dangerous to Occi-
dentals. Civilization enlightens people
irrespective of race and color, and the
organization of the East simply means
an extension of the civilized community
of the world. Europeans do not fear
their civilized neighbors at home, so
why do they dread the improvement of
the Asiatic?
THE BULLYING OF THE EAST
"All this hurrah about the Yellow
Peril is in reality a disguised argu-
ment against the open door, The
European powers realize that unless
they can create a sentiment against
Japan the days of their jobbing and
intriguing in Oriental affairs are over.
l tell you, my friend, you can't
blame the Oriental for having a
srudge against the foreigner. He has
a grievance of long standing. He has
cessions at the lannon's mouth until
it is no wonder he regards the white
man as an oppressor. Europe may
well fear his vengeance if he ever gets
the strength to strike back.
What legal right has Germany in
China? Her title is so f1imsy that it
can only be maintained by force.
When two of her missionaries were
killed by the Chinese she did not at
tempt to procure indemnity in the
usual way but seized the port which is
the key to Shantung, one of the rich
est and most populace provinces in
the empire, and has since diverted it's
vast resources to her own gain. How
did France secure her possessions in
Indo-China? Certainly by the most
questionable methods, For time i'm
memorial it has been a tradition of
French diplomacy that each set of Of
ficials in Indo-Chin should turn over
to their successors more territory than
they received from their predecessors.
And they have lived up to it. Even
England is a reformed culprit. After
securing all the territory he wanted,
John Bull is now backing up the Mi
WHAT CAUSED THE WAR
Nothing could be more clearly il
Illustrative of the crookedness of Euro
pean procedure in Oriental politics than
the manner in which Russia provoked
the present war. When Japan was de-
MED the right to occupy the peninsula
of Liaotung, after her successful war
with China, the main reason given was
that the integrity of the latter would
be imperiled if a foreign power occu-
pied that territory. Three years later
Russia stepped in and brazenly took
possession herself without offering
apologies to anyone Not satisfied with
this the diplomats of the Car negoti-
ated treaty with the King of Korea
while he was refugee in the Russian
legation at Seoul. This was ostensibly
a timber concession, but the document
was purposely put together so loosely
that Russia could arbitrarily interpret
it to mean almost anything she liked.
when the Russians began terrifying
along the banks of the Yalu river, al
most in sight of the shores Of Japan
there was no mistaking their inten- |
lions. The japanese had to act quickly |
and the splendid way in which they |
met the crisis has aroused the aston |
ishment of the world. Had they been |
unable to make an alliance to insure |
fair play and afterward to defend |
their rights by force, pitiable indeed
would have been their condition today
HURRAH FOR THE JAPS.
The reading Of many volumes would |
not give a person a better idea of the |
eastern situation than this coversa- |
ton between the two club men. The |
remarks of Mr.. Dash relative to the |
Yellow Peril are worth pasting in /
your hat. He pricks the bubble with |
argument so pointed that ii is incon-
All this noise about the |
white races being trampled under foot !
by yellow stampede is nonsense. 1t
emanates from Europe and is case
of a captured rogue raising the cry OF
stop thief. If they got their just deserts
there is more than one European
power which deserves a fiogging at
the hands of the Orientals. Japan is
fighting for the open door and
square deal. therefore Americans
need have no fear of the future.
There is really nothing alarming in
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