The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-01-09
WILHELM AND
THE YELLOW PERIL
Judge Hart on Phases OF the
Problems Connected With
the Japanese.

and Japan you say, referring to the
Emperor William s allegorical painting
"The Yellow Peril, - "among Eastern
clouds he limned the hideous face OF
the japanese god of war and in the
foreground, facing it, he ranged the
nations of Europe, armored of breast
and sworded of hand.'
Having a reproduction of the Ger
man Kaiser's said allegorical painting
l find in il no hideous face of Japa-
nese god of war, on the contrary amid
dense black clouds sits in the East the
mild benign figure of Buddha. The
artist, apparently to make this clear,
and probably for other reasons, has
the figure backed with pointed tongues
of flame. To this figure of Buddha
the Arehangel Michael is directly call
ing the attention of seven female
figures, "armored of breast and sworded
of hand" representing the Powers of
Europe. Above them stream rays of
benignant light from the cross that
to the Western world represents so
much, also near them futter a couple
of doves, emblematical, 1 suppose, of
the mild and gentle characteristics of
armed Europe! The strongly developed
religious tendencies of the Emperor
William are well known and surely in
fluenced the royal artist in his work.
At any rate the contrast between the
mild light streaming from the cross
and the darkness surrounding Buddha
are strongly marked. And yet; well,
instead of what is uppermost in my
mind let me give another's words:
I, Buddh, who wept with all my broth
er's tears,
Whose heart was broken by whole
worlds woe,
Laugh and am glad, for there is Lib
ertyl
Hoi We who suffer- know
Ye suAer from yourselves. None else
compels,
None other holds you that we live
and die,
It's spokes of agony,
1t s tire of tears, it's nave of nothing
ness
Behold, L show you Truth! Lower
than hell,
Higher than heaven, outside the ut
most stars,
Farther than Brahm doth dwell,
Before beginning, and without end,
AS space eternal and as surety sure,
Is fixed Power divine which moves
to good,
Only it's laws endure.
1t seeth everywhere and marketh ALL:
Do right-it recompensethl do one
wrong,
The equal retribution must be made,
1nOuSn Dnarma larry long.
By this the slayer's knife did stab
himself;
The unjust judge hath lost his own
defender;
The false tongue dooms its lie; the
creeping thief
And spoiler rob,-to render.
ness,
Which none at last can overturn or
stay;
The heart of it is Love, the end of it
Is Peace and Consummation sweet.
Obey!
Verify sir, this morning, you say
with truth, cit is a high compliment
to Japan that Germany is sending Off
GERS of the general staff to study her
military system" But, Mr.. Editor, the
Western world has much more to learn
from Japan than is to be cleaned by
officers studying her military system
q Japan, constant in self-sacrifce and
silent in success, has, by exertions of
which even those who knew her best
had hardly deemed her capable, finally,
and without fear of challenge taken
her place among the Great Powers of
the world. That place she has won
not by the force of arms alone, not all
great eonquering nations of the world
have become Great Powers,-but by
the genius and devotion of her people. |
a genius which we have by no means
fathOmed, and a devotion which we
have vet to learn to initiate. When |
barely half century ago the first |
foreign representatives set foot in |
Japan no one OWNED that that para |
disc set in the seas possessed in the |
hearts and wills of her people a |
treasure more marvellous than any that |
ever found its way from her studios |
to the Western world. The value of |
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