Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1905-05-17
JUDGE CHEADLE
ON GREAT WAR
Continued from page One).

contempt upon these yellow fellows.
They make pretty good soldiers when
they are properly handled"
This is, perhaps, as succinct and
accurate statement as to the rea-
sons why our sympathles are with
the little Japs, as has been made IN
this country.
AS to the yellow peril" another
very live topic, Judge Cheadles ideas
are those of one who has not only
studied the question deeply, but VINO
has had the advantage of seeing the
Japs at home, and who knows some
thing at first hand of their aspirations
as nation. He said:
Military Genius of the Japs.
''The Japanese army which fought
the battle of Mukden and the preced-
ing battle was, | venture to say, the
history of this war-like world, unless
possibly it was the army with which
Caesar subdued the ancient Gauls, and
numerically it is far greater than Gaze
sar's biggest army ever was. In the
operations around Mukden l think we
beheld the very climax of military
skill. l think Marshal Oyama is the
greatest military strategist since the
days Of Napoleon. 1t Is questionable
whether any man has ever led armies
who had greater skill, greater forti-
tude and greater foresight than this
same Marshal Oyama-a member OF
the despised yellow race. When the
Japanese can produce men like that,
it behooves the white race not only
to look to it's laurels, but to its very
safety. So this cry of the yellow per-
il is no bugbear. The Japanese have
the necessary skill, the necessary am
biton, and necessary fortitude to equln
and officer and lead Chinese armies,
and the Chinese, like the Japanese,
and all oriental races, are all fatalists.
They have a singular disregard of dan
ger a singular apathy in the presence
of death, so long as they are efficient
ly lead. It is a remarkable thing to
see them. The First Montana regi
ment had about thirty Chinese stretch
er-bearers for use in the hospital de
partment. They were always put III
charge of one or more white men dur
duty of those people to come right
up behind the lines during an engage
ment to pick up the wounded men
place them on the stretchers, and car
ry them back to the field hospital
And at least score of times l nave
seen these men under whitening hre
led by one or two white men. wall
up behind the lines and pick up wound
ed men and carry them off just a
calmly and indifferently as any on
of you is sitting here tonight. 1t Ii
true. if white man got killed, a
sometimes happened, the Chimes
would scatter like coyey OF quail
but all they need is efficient leader
ship, men that they rely upon, on
GERS that they trust. and those me-
can be led anywhere and will accom-
plish anything There is no racial al
ference to lead us to expect that TN
Chinese will make any poorer soldier
than the Japanese, except that the
do not seem to possess the ambltlo
and the skill that their brethren c
.. the empire possess. But all thes
things make this question a most Sc
ious one.
"There isn't anything really ne
under the sun: what happens is mer'
" a repetition of what has happened
and what will happen in the future
+, to the end of the human race,
simply repetition of what occurre
in the generations and centuries pr
cedins us. So it behooves all the whit
nations to consider these matters car
fully. 1t is incumbent upon the state
men of the white race to provo
. against a possible peril OF this KIN
: 1t has been less than eight hundre
. years since JenghiZ Khan led n
hordes across Siberia and fell upC
eastern Europe. 1t might easily ma
pen again: there is nothing at all II
probable in it: and the disparity b
l. tween us and the yellow races, nul
. erically considered. or, rather, consl
J. cred in the military sense, is gres
S It is true we flatter ourselves tn
I we are of better quality. but I dor
+ know that we have any right to,
X view of the exploits of the Japane
l. army in Manchuria. These thin
e must give us pause and make us thil
> about what might possibly happen
the yellow races were once thorous
" aroused and awakened to the pr
sibilities that lie before them.
Universal Peace Oelusion.
tt "These dreams of universal pea
1t which we hear of and perhaps son
1. times indulge in ourselves. are all {
c. lusions. The world is no nearer II
le yersal peace today than it was t
IS thousand years aso-not one 81
Is nearer. The bloOdiest war of histc
lie is being waged right now. unless
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Transalpine Gaul. We have no r
son to expect that war VIII cease
the future. AS the population of
earth increases and as the press'
T of that population upon the means
subsistence becomes greater. the pr