The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-09-17
BY C. n. TAVENNER

81 ~
SEATTLE, Sept. 17.-Ethnolo-
gists and men with keen insight
Of the relations of the worlds pow
ers from q diplomatic standpoint,
are declaring today that the anti
oriental riots on British soil were
the most important events of the
last century.
This view Is based on the fact
that the Vancouver demonstration
is the only event In that time hav-
ing q direct effect toward aligning
the white nations. of the world
against the vast yellow forces Of
the world.
These men of science forecast
that some day, perhaps hundreds OF
years distant, there will be gi-
gantic effort made for universal
supremacy. They argue that mas
much as the Mongol is an exact op-
posite type to the English speaking
white man-having different NOR
ais, different religion, opposite as
pirations in every way--one OF the
types must some day be in control
of the other.
They contend the Vancouver at
fairs has had the result of linking
England and the United States IN
a common cause, and that this
union will some day be necessary
for the preservation of the white
races. Uniformity of action be-
tween the two white nations will,
of course, not develop at once, the
scientists explain, but from now on
will grow gradually.
In this master struggle, which
learned ethnologists see so plainly
in their visions, the white races
will be far in the minority! India
and China alone has one-third OF
the human population of the earth
The lineup, so the dreamers prog
nosticate, will be something like
this, 4O0O00,000 whites VS.. 100000
900 Chinese, 300,000,000 Hindus,
200. 900, 900 Africans and 100000
Japanese.
Nor is the tendency toward the
uniting Of the forces confined to
the whites. With master hand,
Japan has, in the last 10 years,
been making tremendous strides to
that end, and has worked so quiet
| ly that her progress has not been
| followed closely. The growth OF
| the Swadeshi india for us) move
ment in India has been SO marked
of late years as to be commented
upon in press dispatches. 1t Is
| charged that Japan is directly back
of this movement, sending mission
aries there to agitate and stir the
| masses of India into rebellion
against British rule.
Pan Islamism, which practically
means universal Mohamedism, is
| making itself felt in the north OF
India, Afghanistan, Baluchistan,
Turkestan, among the Mohamedan
Chinese in west of hCina, Arabia,
/ north Africa, Sudan, Turkey and
Egypt. Powerful educational forces
are operating. Mohamedan univer-
stiles are fast educating the masses
One university in Cairo has 5000
students. From these universities
the missionaries go into the Mo-
hamedan regions and are gradually
penetrating deeper and deeper into
the heart of Africa.
The reason Japan watches al
these movements with such satisI
faction is that there is great unity
between the colored races by over
tapping bonds of religions and ra-
cial ties. For instance. Buddhism
is strong in China, Japan and In
dia, uniting to some degree those
nations. Mohamedism's bond
stretches from the extreme west
coast of Africa to the southern ex-
tremities of the Philippine archi-
pelago.
40 be explicit" explained one
ethnologist. "all these movements
are tending toward the future pow
err of Japan. Japan, being the
wisest of the c0lored races, will
act for them some day. But the
Japanese watch with envy any
movement that tends to link the