The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-10-29
RANKS JAPAN As
A WORLD POWER
COUNT OKUMA THINKS THAT HIS
COUNTRY is SIXTH AND THE
u. S. is SECOND.
NO [ ONGER uNCIVlLIZED
So Says the Distinguished Noble Who
Attacks AS Lonq Cherished Be
lief That Christians Alone
Are Righteous.

Toli3. oct. -"T1itherta the eyes S
of mankind have been TUNED toward
European sonrces for historical knowl
edge" remarks Count Okuma one Of
Japan's ablest sato7men aud pro
foundest thinkers. "What Is caleb
morality has eexlsted ONLY for the
Western nations, and they in all the
world were reckoned as those who
understood the meaning of righteous
ness.
"At least such has been the story
since Rome held sweep over the na-
ticns
This long cherished delusion dates
from the period Of the thousand years
Of the middle ages when the primi
tive principle Of universal benevo
Ience as the foundation Of Christian
civilization gave way to the principles
Of Roman imperialism and the Pope
was crowned not only as npreme in
pir tual matters, but as soye ign of
all nominaIly Christian c1unri 81
Therefore in that middle age only
Christians were classed as rational
human beings
Heather Slain Like Beasts.
Nov love is the very foundation
of Christian doctrine II j. the princi-
pie OF universal brotherhood and is
the basis Of liberty But race preiu-
.ltz.,, yg,.-,,, l., l,,-f5 E71t-1naaI4 vr-4
thing themselves Christians are class.
ed as superior and others deemed in
ferior, are effaced from the list of the
races of the genus homo Theref re
in the past the heathen were slain
Ike beasts in Christian war: and the
sword was the weapon of civilization.
In the progress oof civilization
the great nations of the east-Egypt,
Fabylon, India and Greece have
faded away ana their territories have
been captured by the forces of Two
great mo13thaistic religions Chris
tian and Mohammedan Spain and
Portugal. once great in both the Ea
and West have fallen into decay, so
hat if we look at the map OF the
world we find only TWO great nm
Christian nation remaining Chira
and Japan,
while China was gradually sinking
into discrepitude, European nations
were ising in civilization and by and
by came 70 p,is the world with taeir
pheres of ilAuen e., prccIa'ming
that hanceforth the other inferior
races must obey the mighty win of
Europe.
This idea is imbelded in in erna.
tional law which is, in fact the con
sensus of the opinions and practices
of the family of Christian nations Of
Europe and America toward the ether
counties Of the world.
japan suddenly came TO the frc-t
qualified with the accumulated power
of European civilization, and his lit
tie island empire was obliged by the
JapanChina war TO enter the stage Of
co mopolitan politics on the Asiatic
continent.
Then the world was taken ahack
and the yellow peril doctrine was
popular People were afraid that
Japan would join Corea and China in
an advance on Europe like he Tartar
invasion Of Gheng's Khan and AttiIa.
the s-ourge of God The leaders in
this hue and cry against the yellow
peril may have had secret political
in piration. yet the fact is that
Europeans did not fully recognize the
reality of Japanese civilization even
after he Japan-China war.
Britain Sees Future for japan.
"But the clever statesmen of
Britain who foresaw their future in
terest in the East, formed an alliance
with Japan for the sake Of peace in
the far east--which in truth, / the
interest Cf tha whoel world. Cont
rental nations cast suspicious eyes
upon the alliance, suspectmg British
ambition.
Then came the Jspan-Russian war.
we shall never forget our graft
tude 10 Britain and America
America. with her noble ideas of
liberty. Justice and peace. having
been connected with the opening OF
our country to the western nations.
and al o i'm fun sympathy with the
Anglo-Japanese alliance. yet doubted
our fnal victry over Russia. Although
I presume other ccualias might nave
visled for our victory from intern1-
toraI interest yet the Circumstance
of the case call forth gratitude on our
part
In comparing Japan with Russia
we found tba Rus Ia had three times
a. many people. eight times as much
Te-e erye. Janz4 had only 100000 troops
in her amy. vhiia Ru sia hal 4133-
i08. and Russa's sea power doubled
Iauan's. These fEIles gave English
and American zvmnathizers profound
fear for the final re- uit