The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-07

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This period Of extension and develop
ment has been that Of one race. the So
called white race Or To speak more
accurately. the group OF peoples living
in Europe who undoubtedly have q GER
tain kinShIp Of blood who profess the
Christian religion and trace hack their
culture to Greece and Rome
The memories Of men are short and
II Is easy To forget how brief IS this
period Of unquestioned supremacy or
the s0-caEIed white race II Is but 4
thing Of yesterday During the thou
sand years which went befors the opel
ing Of this era Of European supremacy.
the attitude OF Asia and Africa. Of Hun
and M0ugOI- Turk and Tartar Arab
and Moor Rad On the whole been that
More than a century passed after the
voyages OF Columbus before the mas
terry in war began to pass from the
ASiatic To the European During that
time Europe produced no generals or
e0nqUerors able To stand comparison
with SeTfn and SoIyman Baher and
Akbar- Then the European advance
gathered momentum. until AT the pres
ent time peoples Of European blood
hold dominion over all America and
Australia and the Islands Of the sea-
over most of Africa and the major
half Of Asia Much Of this world con-
quest IS merely political. and such d
conquest Is always likely in the long
run to vanish But very much Of II rep
reSeutS not q merely political but an
eChnIc conquest the intrusive people
having either exrsrufnated or driven
out the conquered peoples. or else hay-
ing imposed upon thern its tongue, law
culture and religion together with q
strain Of its blood During this period
substantially all Of the world achieve
ueuts worth remembering are to be
credftsd to the people Of European
descent The first exception Of any
consequence Is the wonderful rise OF
japan within the last Eeneratiou-a
phenouerOu uuexzmpIed IN history, for
both IN blood and IN culture the Jap
aueSe line Of ancestral descent Is as
remote as possible from ours, and vet
japan. while hitherto keeping most Of
character and traditions has assinai-
lated with curious completeness most
| Of the characteristics that have given
power and leadership to the west
Phenomenon OF Mankind
During this period Of intense and fe-
vGrISh activity among the peoples OF
European stock first one and then an
other has taken the lead The move
uert began witch Spain and Portugal
Their flow erIng time was as brief as Il
was wonderful The gorgeous pages Of
their annals are EHun4iued by the fig
Urss OF warriors expIarers statesmen.
ucsts zuG u,afrIerss Then their days
Of greatness ceased Many partial ex-
plantations can be given but something
remains behind, some ridden force for
evil. some hidden source Of weakness.
upou which We cannot lay cur hands.
New World after centuries Of arrested
growth. the peoples Of Spanish and Por-
tuguese stock are entering upon an
other era Of deveIopuent. and there are
oTEer signs that this Is true also IN
the Insriau peninsula itself
About the time that the first brilliant
period of the leadership Of the T5e-izu
peoples was drawing to a. close at the
other end Of Europe. in the Land OF
melancholy stsppe and melancholy for
eSt- the Sdav turned in his troubled
sleep aud stretched ont his hand ID
grasp leadership and dominion Since
then almost every ration OF Europe has
at one time or another sought 4 place
in the movement OF expansion; but for
the last three centuries the great p1e-
Eoueron Of mankind has been the
growth Of the Eng disappearing peoples
and their spread over the worlds waste
sraces-
Comuarfsou Is often made between
the empire Of Britain and the empire
Of RoUe- When Judged relatively %
the effect en- al modern civilization the
empire Of Rome Is Of course the more
important simply because the nations
OF Europe and their oEshoosS N other
continents trace back their culture
or the later Rome by the Bosphorus-
The eupfte Of Rome Is the most stu
peudous fact in lay history no empire
later in time can be compared with II
Ing that the nearer the source the more
fuporrart becomes any DETECTION of
the streams current Absolutely COM
pairing the TWO empires one WITH the
other in point Of actual achievement.
ard dfsresarGing the immensely IN
-Fr-T
HFfch inferred in the older empire be
cause Y sntedated the younger by Z
couple Of thousand years there IS Il
tie TO choose between them as regards
-he wide and abGJrrsLng IcEersSt and In1-
Vcrtauce of their careers
In the world Of antiquity each great
empire rose when It's predecessor had
already crunblsd- BY the time that
Rome doomed large over the horizon o.
history there were left for her To COZ
ard raw harbariSnS- When she CON-
quered Pyrrrus. she strove against the
strength of but one Of the many frzg-
u4euts into which AIexzuier's Kingdom
Carthage. she oTerthrew q foe against
HON for two centuries the single
Greek city of Syracuse had commended
on equal terms. was not the Sepoy
armies Of the Czrrhzg1uian pIutocracy
hut the towering genius Of the house
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forever memorable It was the dis
tanee and the desert rather than the
Parthiau horss-bowmsu ttat set
bounds TO Rome in the east and On
the north her advance was curbed by
the vas reaches Of uars1y woodland
rather than by the tail harbarians who
dweE therein During the long gan-
eracfOuS Of her greatness and until TIE
sword dropped from her Wither-d hand.
the ParChfau was never menace of
AGGRESSION and the German threatened
her but TO die
Exhaustion Of England
On the contrary. the great eZpau-
sion Of England has occurred. the
great empire Of Britain has been
achieved. during the centuries that
have also seen mighty military IA
lions rise and flourish On the CONT
reut Of Europe It Is as Il Rome while