Albuquerque citizen., 1908-04-21
YELLOW PERIL
A THING OF
THE PAST
HObSOn Says FOrtlfiCdti0nS at
Pearl Hdrbor Will Settle
Dispute Forever.

Washington, April ell VIII the !
establishment of a great naval base Ia !
Pearl harOor on oahu island act as |
safety valve upon the relentless am !
bition Of the Japs and the awakening
energy of the Chinese?
VIII this white mans western out
post. home of the American western
fleet. give Uncle sam control of the
situation in the Pacific or shape the
destinies of the orient?
Representative Richmond Z. Hob
son, naval expert and hero of the
blockade Of Santiago. believes it will.
Once it is fully equipped. the yellow
peril. he declared, will become a thing
OF the past
Hobson believes that Pearl harbor
Is destined to become the greatest
naval base in the world: the most i'm
portant strategic point in the Paci-
fic the key to the ultimate peace Of
Ihe universe.
With it as a base of operations the
American fleet may patrol the Pa
cific, curb the activity of the Japs.
and hold the yellow men in check,
until steps can be taken to force and
maintain a worldwide peace.
The humiliation of space has sud-
denly brought all nations and races
together says Hobson. There must
be worked out some basis upon which
these nations and races can live to-
gctncr in peace. The change is sud
den. Heretofore nations have be-
licved they lived as natural enemies,
according TO the law of nature. where
one survives oy the destruction Of the
other.
MAN is now finding out he does
mot have to destroy his kind in order
To live. that the test for survival. in
other words, is not might and brute
force TO destroy, but the capacity and
Willingness to cooperate and serve
to control natures great forces for the
common good.
We are in transition period; a
very critical period. The effect of the
sInnihilation of space has been pri-
marily to cause the nations of the
earth TO leap to arms. All nations re-
alize that those other nations they
have regarded as their enemies are
at their very doors. | believe. how
ever. that in the progress of civiliza-
tion the great nations of the white
race have come to realize that they
can find a basis upon which they can
live in peace.
Germans and French, English and
Dutch. all the peoples of the earth
that hate each other in their old hab-
itats. have come together and mingled
their blood in America in perfect re-
cancellation. The fact that here, with
such a reconciliation, we have bull
up a mighty system, combining the
great principle of local self govern
ment with the principle of joint anC
just cooperation in a common gov
ernment, is, | believe, rapidly leading
the white. race to a point where th'
nations will evolve an internationa
organization that will be adequate 70!
the purposes of peace in the who'll
world.
But we must not ignore the fac
that this same annihilatiOn of space
has also brought the white and yellow
races together Every page of tn
worlds history shows that when race
50 far apart that they are differen
in color have met each other 1t ha
invariably been in a war of eXtermi
nation. There has never been an eX
ception. We have seen recent in
stance in the meeting of the Japanes
and Russians in Manchuria.
Japan, now heading the yellow
race, is just emerging from medieval
ism. Less than half century ag
feudalism was rampant in Japan. Ant
hhstory shows that following the ter
mination of feudalism there is alway
a long period of war and conquest
There is a natural movement on tn
part of Japan not only to organize ne
own people, but the peoples of Asl
and the yellow races. to move out t
what they believe is inevitable,
struggle for the supremacy Of tn
world.
1t is of the utmost importance t
mankind, to the future of civilization
that there be placed, if necessary,
constraining power which will kee
the yellow man in his habitat an
have him meet the white man in CON
merce and industry as friend, n'
in war as an enemy.
Il believe that down the march
ages goes the hand of Providenc
and that America has been raised u