Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-08-11
UNUSUAL VIEW
OF JAPANESE
American Physician Who Has Resid-
ed in Japan for Years Takes Issue
With High Authorities.
DOES NOT AGREE WITH HEARN
Says the Victory Of Japan is Simply
the Triumph Of Paganism-
Scores the Whole Race.
DOES NOT AGREE WITH HEARN

Albert S. Ashmead, NJ d. former
ly foreign director of the Toxic hos
pital, Japan. writes the following ar.
ticle for The New York Tribune:
1t is our custom to invest those
| whom we admire in some one respect
with admirable qualities in all other
respects. The small Japanese nation,
engaged in conflict with the great
Russian nation, early won our SYM
pathies, and the steady success of
the former has excited our admira.
ton as their valor and devotion have
aroused our enthusiasm.
For year our press and people
have been active in praise of the
japanese training, the Jaapnese home
life and the general Japanese meth
cd of doing things. A people who
can produce Togo, an Oyama and
kuroki must be. we have agreed, a
great people, and we have been in
cllned and are still inclined to SO re.
gard them in all national respects.
In so doing we are making, in my
opinion, a great national mistake
which may lead to serious consequent
ces in our future relations with the
far east, and one which should be cor
rected as soon as possible.
Must be Correctly Estimated.
The Japanese, for our own good,
should be neither over estimated nor
under valued by us. l am not pro-
Russian-I am simply American; but
| am one Of those Americans who
having lived among the savage, heath
en- race, have read the high falutin'
enthusiastic admiration of them, now
SO common with irritation, if not
pain. We are making fools Of our
selves, or rather we are being made
fools of, by perhaps the widest, po-
ltest. most conceited and most arrog-
ant 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 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 weap.
ons with which to express it. When
Baron Kaneko at Carnegie Hall in
New York City recently declared that
this war was religious war, he told
a truth which every statesman has
recognized already, one whose future
| significance is apparent to every
reader of history.
Naturally Our Enemies.
And it is full time that we recog-
nize the fact that we are touching
elbows in the Philippines with a tri
umphant pagan race which is not in
sympathy but on the contrary is nat.
urally at tnmity with ourselves, a
semi-civiliZed, heather and savage PEG.
pie whose ideals clash with our own IN
every particular, who are Heterogeneous
to us in every humane and moral
aspect. Before we talk of alliance
and friendship we first should con.
slider the character Of the ally and
friend. What then. as the first con-
sideration. is the Japanese race?
AS people they are far below
us in the scale of evolution. They
represent a white Indonesian engraft-
ed upon a Negroid stock. That there
has been negro blood in the Japan
csc ancestral races is proved by the
black pigment spot on the flattened
root of the nose of the common peo-
pie, and by the fact that the five
great daimio families. to one of which
every mikado has belonged. are OF
white Indonesian blood.
Concubinage.
| The ruling white blood of Japan
has been maintained in its imperfect
measure of purity by a social system
of concubinage. The mikadO of to-
day is allowed one high class wife
and u concubines. The noble prin
ceses in most instances are sterile
and the concubines are the mothers
of possible new mikados. The pres
ent prince imperial the future mix
ado, the Goldman who is to 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 contaminated these high
er-bred families, and it is this blackeI
blood of the nation which has KEEP,
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 despsed 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
| in the case of Japan by such consid
! Grafton as is due TO the mother of {
warrior race. With concubinage il
| the palace. one naturally would lool
! for a low order OF morality among
the masses of womanhood: and We
| find such a morality regular par
of the social system. more solidly anc
! completely organized, in fact. thar
in any other country of today.
UnbridgeabIe Chasm.
This, however is only single ram
| ification of a moral or ethical code
which represents the very soul of TIM
nation. and which will be astounding
to many readers. The ideal of an!
people represents the heart of thu
people the basis of public opinion
the goal toward which progress il
making it's way. Our own is thu
Christian ideal. Christ upon Calvary
the ideal of loving one another, o
bearing one another's burdens. II
| Ornnprly annrpciatp the nNhrld0eaOi