Durango semi-weekly herald., 1907-02-25

line is drawn more conspicuously il
this adjustment than 1t ever was II
any previous agreement between dit
ferent ethnic groups, and the brow
race acknowledges the superiority O
the white.
Asia holds half OF the $1,000, ,000. 90.
OF the worlds white people, and mos
OF that half belong to the Mongolian
or some allied strains of blood. OF tn,
| S00,000,000 OF people who are diffuse,
through Europe, America and Africa
| not much more than half belong t.
the white race. And yet this white
fragment, comprising not a great dea
more than quarter of the entire in
habitants of the earth, orders the
worlds affairs. They have been doinr
this through all the modern ages, and
are likely to continue to do 1t for
many generations to come. Their as
cendancy has not always been wisely
exerted. History points out many in.
stances in which the white treatment
of black, red. brown and yellow was
harsh and unjust. 1t was the rule of
The strong over the weak with which
we have been familiar in the past
century or two with this exception
that the harsher features of II came
early, and more or less have elud.
ed the records. The white races are
still exerting their superiority, except
as against Japan, which has recently
won for herself the right to be treated
with little more consideration than
the Chinese, the Indians, the Fillpinos
or the Hottentots whom Germany
is warning against. But even Japan
gives her approval to the theory oil
white supremacy In the worlds econ
omy.
This Japano-American settlement
viii hold a distinctive place in inter
national diplomacy. It will be an ac.
acknowledgement that despite the recent
advancement of the yellow and brown
peoples, there has been no disturbance
in the worlds racial balance. The
white man is still first, with the brown,
the yellow, the red and black man
dropping into the procession wherever
chance or oscillations and perturba-
tions of the moment puts him. When,
less than half dozen years ago, Eng.
land and Japan entered into an often.
sive and defensive alliance, the great
nations were surprised. Here was the
firts instance OF a league on equal
terms between a white nation and
people of another color. With one
stroke Asia seemed to be lifted to a
ca. A few years later, in a war be-
tween a great nation OF Europe and
Asia, it was Asia which triumphed
The world was startled at this ap-
parent disturbance Of the old ethnic
equilibrium. That event promptly reg
istered itself in a new league between
England and Japan in which all the
reservations and qualifications which
anybody could have read into the for.
mer compact were swept away, and
the contracting parties talked as alb
solute equals, except that the terms of
the league seemed to be formulated
by tht Drown man instead of the
white. For a few months the earth's
social focus appeared to have swung
from Washington, or London, or Ber-
lin, to Toxic. The yellow peril.
which the kaiser proclaimed at the
beginning OF the Japano-Russian war.
at last to have materialized,
and the scoffers, in the United States
as well as in France, England and
the rest of the white countries, were
silenced. But the San Francisco set
tlement quiets this fear, at least for
the time. The black, the red, the yel.
low and the brown men have their
place In the economy of things, and,
for one or two of these races, that
place will probably become more and
more conspicuous and important as
time passes. But for generations and
ages in the future the white man is
likely to bear the greater part OF the
worlds burdens.-Globe.D Democrat.