Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-11

! tea among rugs. there are no statesmen
now. Statesmen!-there are no such things.
Not here-not in Europe. An ordinary man
is man who thinks in days; statesman
proper thinks in thousands of years The
outlook and computations of a statesman
should be as much VaSter than those of a
private person, as country is vaster than
tea house. Believe me, there are no
statesmen
Come, doctor. why do you say that?'
asked the marquis.
Look forward five hundred, a thousand
years, marquis and what do you See?' an
swered Yen How. us it not this?-the
white man and the yellow man in their
death grip, contending for the earth. The
The black is the slave of both; the brown
does not count. But there are those two;
! and when the day comes that they stand
face TO face in dreadful hate. saying, One
or other must quit this earth shall tell
| you which side win win?''
Which do you think2"
THE white will win, marquis"
Perhaps l differ from YOU" said the
Marquis Ito.
"Ah! you differ from me But I am right
all the same; and 1 mean, sooner or later,
to prove 1t 10 you abundanuy, abundantlyl
| The white Will win. l tell you! You great
men In Japan are trying TO copy them
straining your poor necks to come up with
them; but have passed my life in studying
them-and I've got something to tell you;
listen TO 1t; you cannot, marquis, you cam
not, you cannot"
"Our navy already began the mar
quis.
"Poh. your navy! Who built it for you?
II was they. Your navy Is like a razor in
the hands of ape which has seen It's
master use 1t. The brute may or may not
cut It's own throat with 1t. And as soon as
they build a navy for you, they will build
one twice as big for themselves, and twice
as good. There IS no reason why you
should not follow them, and go on follow
ing them-only understand that you cannot
catch them! And this is another thing that
you should understandable the longer YOU
follow them the farther they get away from
you. Their rate of progress Is continually
| increasing. Every day that passes over the
world gives them an additional advantage
over you. Today their guns can NOW you
down by hundreds; I'm a hundred years
they will NOW you down by thousands; In
Ave hundred years by millions. Can't you
see?-you are losing time!'
What 90 you mean?'
'Ah, mean that there are no longer any
statesmen, marquis. The eye of the states
man ranges far, far into the tracts OF the
future. doesn't 1t? But we! Here are we
now-we japanese, we Chinese, we yellow
men-playing about in little diplomatic mud
puddles with French, and Russian. and
English, and German, as il all that mat
tered two senl And all the time we know
well, yet seem not to know. that French,
and English and the rest are equally our
foe, and tyrant, and vul.ure one not more
than the other! That if We do not eat them
whole some day. soon-soon. And to see
China fighting with Japan in such a case,
and Japan banging into China--is 1t not
childish enough TO make donkey, or even
a grand lama, laugh? There are no states-
men any longer marquis.
"Well, come, l see something In what you
are driving at" said Ito Eve and China
are like two birds pecking at each other on
a bough, when suddenly they are both down
the belly OF a serpent, which has been
calmly watching them. Well but what are
we to do? BY your own showing. the birds
can do nothing against the serpent"
Did l say that?' asked Yen. lifting his
eyebrows in Innocent surprise. "'Oh,
didn't mean It! There are many birds
you see, and few serpents. In the world to-
day there are 40S 00000 Christians and
mark the figures, 004 100000 nom Chris
tians. ] can see that you are startled"
You think that by sheer force of num-
bers--'
yes II we had taken our opportunity in
time-lf We had struck two hundred--a hun
dred years ago. Even today l believe that
II is hardly too late, II the yellow race can
find a great leader l am perfectly sure
that In hundred years time 1t will be too
late"
"Why SOP
81 have told you. BY that time the white
power over all nature. He will say to the
mountains and the seas: BE removedp-
and at his mere whisper they will obey him
We yellow men. too. will have advanced,
but they win have vastly outstripped Us.