The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-04-21
YELLOW PERIL
OFCOMMERCE
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come a great Empire. To captain the
Asiatic hordes and become the ruler
of the world. Men may say that the
day for conquest and dominant empire
is passed, but so men have said be-
fore. Napoleon turned back the clock
of time for centuries that he might be-
come the Chief of All Men, and he was
baked by a small people. If Japan can
succeed in its courtship of China to
the extent of gaining the support of its
four hundred million people and its
immense wealth, what is to stand in
the way of an Asiatic conquest of the
world?
The next half century will see the
yellow tide sweeping through Manchu-
ria and Siberia towards Europe. down
through the Philippines and the Is
lands of the Sea to Australia, and
across the Pacific through Hawaii to
the shores of the Americas. Today
Japan is wearing the smile of pea ce-
full and Industrious nation, but at the
same time it is grinding its people
into the earth by increasing taxes i'm
posed for the purpose of building bat
tleships, training soldiers; and pur-
chasing the munitions of war. Its
agents swarm through the byways of
interior China preaching the doctrine
of Asia for the Asiatics." In Korea
and Manchuria it's statesmen take adj
vantage of the fruits of the first sue
cessful clash with Europe by institute
ing an ambitious program of japanese
extension which means the ultimate
fluence
Revolution is certain to come in
China, and when the Manchu rule is
ended and a Chinaman sits on the
throne of the Son of Heaven, then the
japanese doctrines will be more well
come than now. Let not the world
be deceived by the present show of
jealousy and enmity between China
and Japan-both are Asiatics and as
such will stand together against the
Westerner when the time comes.
Thus speak those who believe that
there is actual danger to modern civil
ization from the breaking of the leash
that has held the yellow hordes in
bondage.
A more practical class do not appre-
IlGllu d wal VI conquest hOA lAlO SASS
ton of an Asiatic Empire, but they
are genuinely alarmed because they
that the commerce of western
nations is threatened. China is the
greatest of the worlds markets, and
is becoming more important every day.
When Russia attempted to monopolize
the trade of Manchuria and to that end
occupied Chinese territory, the world
was largely on -Japan's side when 1t
forced Russia to abandon it's program.
But now it is repeatedly charged that
Japan is closing the door of Manchu
ria to all but Japanese; that it is US
ing every method of unfair discrimi-
nation to monopolize the markets for
it's own commerce.; and at the same
time is slipping in the back way to
extend its trade into China proper,
thereby becoming even a greater Oh
fender than Russia ever was.
China is rich and Japan is poor. If
Japan could possess the control of that
great country over which European
nations have been snarling at each
1ther for fifty years, then the CONNER
,ial capital of the world would be To-
Sio. China's immense resources of
mineral wealth, practically untouched
and greater in extent than those of
any other country, are closed to Occi-
dental development because of the
Chinese jealousy of the white man. If
the japanese can persuade China to
admit them, as brother Orientals, to
teach the Celestials how to do things,
then will come the moulding of the
public opinion of China which will re-
suit in development of home re-
a constantly lessening demand
for foreign goods and ultimately the
loss of Asiatic trade to Europe and
America.
China's wealth is SO great that it
be estimated. Take but one
example. At Hankow, a thousand
milest inland on the great Yangtse
River. is a port which the great ocean
vessels may reach with water to spare
for the greater part of the year. 1t
is at the junction of two large rivers,
and. with its sister cities from which it
is divided only by imaginary lines, has
a population of 100000 persons. With
in a few hours of Hankow is the
greatest anthracite coal field in the
most as close, is a field of soft coal
the extent of which may be only guess
ed at Here, too, is iron ore in abund-
ance, and the Chinese themselves are
already making steel rails. Let the
spirit of western enterprise touch that
store of wealth. even if the impetus
comes secondhand through Japan. and
will become a new and great
er Pittsburg which will control the steel
business of the world. This is but an
instance of the possibilities of the de-
of China's wonderful store
of untouched raw resources.
Therefore, say those who are frighten-
ed by the ghost of commercial yellow
peril, it behooves the Powers to take
steps to insure that Japan does not go
too far in its policy of excluding the
in China. 1t is all right
for Japan to increase it's commerce as
much as it can, but it should be i'm
pressed upon Toxic statesmen that
they must extend the trade of their
nation by fair and open competition
in the eastern marts, and not by at
tempting to establish a market closed
to all others. nor by instituting a trade
to be enforced at the point
Of the bayonet.
The possession of the trade OF China
Is a stake worth playing for, be-
cause history shows that it has always
carried with it the commercial su-
Dremacy of the world. Ancient Egypt,