The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-02-23
A New-0Id World Question.

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in South America, in Canada, in the
great islands of the southern seas,
in Persia, in India, there is at the
front the tremendous question of
whether the myriads of Asia shall
overflow upon the newer countries;
whether Europeans shall retain their
foothold in those occidental coun-
tries where they have long been es-
tablished; whether this is TO. be a
world of orientals or Of occidentals. !
Your white man is the very prince
of pirates-land pirates. From the
day when he borrowed the compass,
gunpowder. and the art of printing
from the superior civilization OF the
orient, he set about to conquer the
world with them. He used the com
pass for exploration, gunpowder for
conquest, and superior average in
tellectual development for assimila-
ton. He exterminated a race of
red men in America; destroyed a
race of blacks in Australia; subiu-
gated the brown men of India; en-
shaved, deported, murdered, or con-
ouered the blacks of Africa; over
threw the splendid ancient civiliza-
lions of Peru and Mexico; spread
himself, east of the Caucasus, over
the north half of Asia until the
Slavic empire reached the Pacific;
gathered in the islands of the sea.
and placed ali the continents under
tribute to himself.
The white pirate set his foot on
China, and thither he brought
opium TO weaken and degrade the
natives. When they would reject it
he made war on them in the name
of Christianity, but iH the cause of
opium traders. II was not, indeed,
tin the land pirate Of the West
raised his heel to grind Japan out
of existence that he stepped on a
hot brick and concluded not to stay.
We have had four centuries of al
most unquestioned assumption of
the white mans right to own the
earth. But is he going 10 own it
for the next four?
India is in n ferment of anti,Brit-
ish sentiment. Japan has set her
thus far shalt thou go" upon Man
churia and China. Australia is try
ing to provide q great national army
to assure that the sIoppings over
of Asiatics shall not presently take
possession of her soil. Canada and
the United States are just closing
agreements designed TO stop the
overflow of yellow men upon the
soil which the white man so lately
wrested from the reds. We read
that the japanese, estopped from
coming to North America, viii pro-
coed 10 colonize and orientalize
South America. In South Africa the
problem of keeping out the Asiatic
hordes is acute, and at best only
temporarily solved. The Turk and
the Russian are disputing over con-
troll of Persia.
These are but instances. The
truth is that the white mans right
to the earth has been questioned.
The pent-up power Of uncoanted
millions of the oriental races is
bursting through the limits which
the white man has assumed to fix.
How long can the Caucasian main
tain himself as the arbiter of the
world? How long viii his first mort
gage on the real estate of the con
tinents be recognized as valid?
A century ago-yes. half century
ago-the white man was carrying
all before him. Even a decade ago
he was planning to divide China.
Today ne is struggling iE Canada, /
the United States, Africa, north and
south: India. Australia, South Amer
lea. Papua. everywhere, TO hold
what he has against the rising tide
of yellow enterprise that threatens
to crowd him cut, 20 inlist on fair
division of the land.
1t is so plain that no man should
be so blind as not to see that the
tide has turned; that the occidental
is now and must for a long time
continue defending himself against
the on-rush of oriental millions. 1t
is a world question, and terrifcal-
" big one.
What California and British Co
lumbia have been worrying us about
is an insignificant aspect of a world
problem of the ages.
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