Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1908-03-03
JAPAN TO ITS VANQUISHED.
No Mercy For Yellow Peoples 1t Has
Conquered.

much has been written about the clash
between Japanese and Americans be-
ing due to inherent race differences
Kiplngs line about the East being
East and the West West has often
been quoted in explanation of broken
restaurant windows in San Francisco
and fights with splintered bottle ends
i'm Vancouver. But a consideration of
, the attitude of the Japanese toward
others Of the so-called yellow races,
heretofore generally overlooked, in
dicates that in a dispute on the ethics
or race philosophy much depends upon
whose bull is gored.
The Japanese have already con-
quered three races Of Mongol origin
and now they are coming into close
contact with a fourth, the Chinese,
greatest of all the slant eyed peoples.
What will be the political outcome of
this clash between two peoples of the
same stock will be decided within the
next fifty years. Now the personal at
titude of a Japanese toward a China
man, a Corean or one Of the conquer
| ed aborginees In the Japanese island
group Is an Interesting study In the
light of the newly arisen social prob
lens on the Pacific slope.
Before history began to emerge
from Japanese folk lore the primitive
subjects Of early emperors fought a
bitter war of determination against
the Amos, the aboriginal people of
the archipelago. One cycle of Japan
ese myths says that the early Japan
ese came from Corea to the southern
most tip of Kiushiu, the lowest of the
three great islands Of the present en-
pire.
Wars with the Amos were as heroic
as the tabled battles Of Troy in Greek
mythology. The hairy folk fell back
before the advance of the invaders
until within comparatively recent his
torical times they were all driven out
of the main inland Of Hondo and up
into the bleak land Of Hokkaido, the
northernmost Of the Japanese group.
There in land as cherries as SAX
halin, which is still as much Of a
frontier land for the Japanese as the
| Northwest Territory is for the Cana
dians, the remnant Of the Amos, herd
ed together on reservations, are rap
| idly ceasing to exist. The Japanese
have not come into clash with them
of late years because there are not
enough Japanese on Hokkaido to ell
bow the savages into the sea.
The government considers the Amos
it's wards, very much as the American
government treats the remnant Of
the Indians But it does not try to edu-
cate the primitive men or to teach
them the Japanese language; it SIM
ply tolerates them and gives them a
fair measure Of protection.
An Aino in the southern islands is
never seen outside of a museum or
street fakirs show. In those regions
he is much more of a novelty than an
Indian in New York.
At one time several years ago a per-
manent show in Asakusa park, the
Coney Island of Toxic, kept as its
chief attraction a family Of Amos and
the place was crowded all the time.
Children cried with fear when shown
the women, with their white tattooed
mustaches, and the strange, hairy
IN, oh clyi re
Come in and see the hairy dogs
from Hokkaido," sang the Japanese
spieler at the door.
Right at the present time the
Japanese government is finding its
hands filled in the task Of desemat-
ing another race Of the yellow
family, the Aiyu, or natives Of For
mosa AS far as anthropologists have
been able to ascertain the Formosan
savages are as nearly akin to Japan
ese as they are to the various tribes
of the Philippines; they seem to be part
Malay and part Mongol.
Their kinship to the Japanese might
be substantiated by their evident love
of fighting and remarkable bravery.
These Aiyu are Of the widest type Of
savages, bloodthirsty, tricky and i'm
placable in their warfare. The Chinese
were content to leave the whole inter-
ior jungle of Formosa to the savages
when they owned the island, but the
Japanese have started deliberate
program of determination and in a
quarter of a century more there prob
ably will not be any Aiyu.
The street name for Coreans in
Japan is "Yobo- -Yobo;" it is synony-
nous with the "Chink" or yellow
belly" that the west attaches to the
low Class Chinaman as a convenient
handle. In the popular Japanese esti-
mate the COrean is little better than
the dog and more patient as burden
bearer than a horse.
This estimate even the white trav-
eller who has seen the Corean at home
will be tempted to affirm unless he
has the opportunity to see the, finer
qualities of loyalty, patience and even
thin sort of patriotism exhibit them
selves. By the admission of the Japan
ese themselves the Corean is at least
distant blood brother, yet no animal
in Japan is made to suffer as the Co
rean in his own land has suffered at
the hands of the Japanese. In making
this statement it is only fair to add
qualification excluding the high class
Japanese from responsibility.
The Corean, coolie and gentleman
alike, is a great oaf with lamblike eyes
and Il soggy spirit who will stand be-
ing kicked and beaten without retail
iation. Because this is so the construc-
ton bosses on the railroads, the barge
men at the seaports and the great
mass of ragtag and bobtail japanese
peddlers that followed the path of the
conquering army through Corea have
driven the peasants in that dreary
land like cattle with a gOad.
One Corean custom which seems to
irritota tho JananeSe beyODd measure is