Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-02-03
THE INORLD'S
AWAKENING

The world is entering upon new
epoch The records Of human history
show no period OF more transcend
ent importance. excepting that Of
the birth, which was heralded by
the angels song, "On earth peace.
/ goodwin TO men" The student who
marks the mighty movement OF old
en- days, the rise and fall Of Rome
the momentous changes wrought
during the Middle Ages, the discov-
cry and settlement of America. Will
find none that is equal in spectacular
effect nor in influence upon the des-
Tiny OF mankind to the awakening OF
the Orient, really to the awakening
OF the world, now in progress. and
to the mighty movements which arc
being put into operation as an out
come of the new world that is
rounding into form beyond the Pa
CHIC. China, with it's 4OO.OOO.OOO
people, people strong OF brain and
muscle, n country which dates it's
history beyond the time when Baby
ION hourished or when Moses led the
children OF Isreal, out Of Egypt. is
stirring with pulsations of modern
HE. Pause a moment and consider
what the awakening Of that denselv
peopled land to Western methods. TO
machinery, to electric light and now
er, to railroads, TO the music of tho
spindles and looms. the roar OF the
furnace and the throb of the loco
motive, will mean to the worlds civ
ilzatlon. The white race. for cen
turtles the conquering, dominating
power OF earth, is now to meet in
competition in every line Of human
activity the yellow races. which H.
number exceed the white. Japan in
her war with Russia proved the tre-
mendous potentialities of the yellow
race. In the building and MANAGE
ment Of shops, the organization and
effectiveness of armies. in chemistry
-
IN medicine, in the arts and sciences
"a nation scarcely half a century old
IN modern ways has proved its vast
power when pitted against the white
race with thousands of years of
world activity to its credit. What
Japan has done is a hint OF what II
VIII do What it has wrought will
be matched by China. and Cbina's
progress will doubtless be on
scale as much greater than Japan's
as its population and natural re-
sources exceed the latter's. On sea
and on land, in industrial advance
ment' in commerce and trade. the
yellow races will give to the white
competition which it has never
known. i
This does not necessarily mean
disaster nor the mastery of the
world by Oriental forces. 1t does
however, presage the coming Of mar
velous activities Of the whole world
The progress Of industry. the buiId-
ing of railroads in Asia. will he
marked by an advance in the rate of
wages and the scale of living
throughout the east. The heavy mi
grafton from Europe to America.
coupled with the industrial devotion
ment of all continental countries is
gradually effectIng an upward move
ment in wages there. But it is not
in the Orient alone that this awak-
ening is seen. In South America. in
Africa and i'm the isles Of the sea
the same conditions prevail. We are
beginning to see the fruition OF the
wrought by modern inven- |
tons in changing all human condi- |
lions. The railroad is scarcely three |
quarters of century old; really. as
an important factor in human ar-
fairs 1t has scarcely half a century
TO its credit The telegraph. the tel |
ephone and other modern labor-sav- |
ing inventions have come into play |
so rapidly of recent years that the /
world rs now receiving a momentum /
in material advancement unlike any |
thing recorded in history with the |
progress OF mankind here and I'm |
Europe. with The closer touch of all F.
the world by cable. steamships and I
railroads, with the cutting away of
tn" isthmian barrier which has sep .
arated the Atlantic and Pacific, the
people of every cline and every ma |
ton are being suddenly brought to- /
gether as never before since the