Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-04-29
1u1 CONFLICT HAS BEovN.

VAa psssagc of the Atlantic battle SAie aeot through the straits of MsHe'' S>A iato the Pacific must be regarded
 - a epoch tn the history of the
 0sslA. IL was the signal that in the IT. Sspsessible conflict of tho white and
 SsAisv races the Unised Btatcs of Amer. ia is in the van Whether the mis.
 asa eventually proves one of peace,
 tAs carrying of western civilization 10
 SAs east, or whether Japan and her
 NAtsssl futury ally, China,, chose Co SAAks the issue one of war, the die has Assa east, and the Uaited states looms 6aga iu the lead of the white race iu
 sn oareh agsins, the yellow.
 fAe world no longer sseerS st Caius.
 TAs signs of the times arc porteut of
 - ewsheaiug of 6Oc,OOo. 900 of people
 UAe yor seeutusisH hsve lain dormant vAals the great powers have spat up
 - tAem. No moro sigui6esus stste. OsnS, ono more frsuaht with thrilling Sae4ssst 10 the white rsce, has bcep ssAe thaa .ast by 'Gd Ting Fang. thS ss,iehtssed' Chinese Ambssssdor to sAs Usited States, d a banquet in New
 1Ns& the past week. that st last the
 ohiaese rsee arc being imbned with SAe satioaal fee,iugv'F '.I il. TO f..'
 Not 6~sts sud svmirs maue tho Uuit.
 sA States of Ahierico great. bN the tesaisg insevery niau e heert that ks AAs . soussty ~ort<r 6ah,isg fes. tAs Ssst souatfy iSathc' world, where men sse fress' tos wort outhsheis! twsi dea- uny, whess the fals,s stsuda I'd oS hrth se>ads is no boy's 'e1 girl V. ~say who AAa tAs ability to take hi- .vlnss or her taepe In Sths paiy American sfistro. >eeey, the 'sristsocsacy' of u brains. dss&sou, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, Me,
 Haley, spran9 from the olsins of the Sswiy to rise ,e tho proudest position tAs world has to offer. It is the real es~staess of the nation which makes psasible the greatness of the iadivid. Saa. sad behind sii is patriotism, the satieasl feeling ...
 What will happss if the awakening sf China is resliy at hand, as stated y Wu Ting Fang. most Amerieanizcd i ssd enlightened Chinese of this or any stser sge' Suppose the Chinese ns. asnAl feeling grows and grows. until . flow of her tceming millions of able ssdied men become imbued with inst ss atom of the feeling of discontcnt | sAd unrest, two other clements of greatness in the Anglo Saxon race. 4 little ieavcn. lcaveneth the whole lump. it may be years, possibly half . century, bu, in time the teeminR mil. hess of ovcrcrowded China are going te reach out for something beyond and setter. Industrially tae white race cannot compete with a race wnich for two thousand years has been taught by asowding and competition the lessons sf cheap production and cheap living. And NO it,'s going to be conflict be. tween the dear and the cheap. Japan. already awake to realization of the coming conflict. has taken on the ven. ser of western civilization at Ieas, w. are told that her military experts are stationed here and there throughout China teaching its men the art of war, asd helping in every way to imbue the Chinese with a national feeling. Japan is the great missionary of western eiyi. hnAtion to China, psradoIieal as the statement may seem, On paper an al. Nance exists between Japan and Great Britain, but when the inevitable con. eiet comes, if it he one of guna and blood, the guns of Great Britain will Dc pointed eastward with those of the United States. The revolution, tho war of lsl:, tho insolsnt attitude Of England in the Civil war, were finally forgiven when Grest Bnsais put be-