New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-03-06
JAPAN A MENACE
SAYS JACOB SCHIFF.
Prof. Du Bots Says 4merica s
Economic Future Is DCrh.

The hearing OF race prejudice on the
economic future was a side of the broader
problem which most of tie speakers at the
luncheon of the Republican Club yesterday
afternoon emphasized Professor w. f. B.
Du Bots, of Atlanta University. the negro
economist. dweH on the situation more
fully than the others, and his address was
characterized later by Jacob H. Schiff, the
banker as lone of the best economic dis
courses I have ever heard
But the race problem, which more par
ticularly interested Mr.. Schif. was that in
volving Americas relations with japan and
China and the prospects OF commercial ex-
pIoitation of the East. Here was the great
est difficulty that confronted the country,
he thought.
"If struggle is coming said he, lit is,
I am sorry to say-as I am friend OF
Japan and helped finance her armies
because Japan was victorious in the late
war. Russia the enemy of mankind, and
Japan. have evidently one purpose, to keep
China vassal state. II we are not care
ful, II we don't show the right statesman
ship in defeating the purpose of Japan and
Russia, we shall be drawn into the con-
fiict"
Judge Mayer Sulzberger, OF Philadelphia
the first speaker, had already dealt with
the Eastern question, predicting that soon
commercial supremacy would rest with the
nations bordering the Pacific. 1.-The Yellow
Peril was not something 10 arm against,
to meet with hostility, in his opinion, but
rather situation which should be miti-
gated by The right spirit Of cosmopolitan
ism He said of the Asiatics:
while you may approach them With the
maxim that CaNrASiaNS and that
they are merely yellow men, vet it has
never been demonstrated in history that
seven or eight hundred millions of human
beings would accept q syllogism that Injured
to their prejudice, matter how true 1t
might be- In the end four hundred men
are going to throttle one hundred IT there
is to be fight the brute force or NUMBERS
will always conquer in the end"
Professor Du Bots started with a ques-
ton: Does race prejudice come into the
realm of practical politics.
Race prejudice is showing it's influence
in America to-day" said he, lin the rise
of rotten boroughs. There are certain parts
of the country where reason, when applied
to this subject, has no standing. These are
the weak spots in this democracy, and just
as disease settles the weak spots OF a
mans body. so the political disease of this
country is going to settle in the South
But we are going 70 have economic diff
fculties even greater than the political diff
ffculties There are growing UP in the
South to-day two competing groups of
laborers one enfranchised and the other
not The second group is becoming more
and more efficient as competing force. 1t
is almost time for the INSCRIPTIONS poll
tician, the demagogue. TO step in and for
his own purposes set these two groups by
the ears The capitalist, too, by saying
that he Will employ black labor because
il is practically as efficient as white and
less expensive, will also set one group
against the other IN bitter destructive war
fare.
THE labor problem here in the North has
reached d critical phase. But when the
laborers of the Nortlz see that wages in the
South are being kept down by the race
problem there will he more trouble.
I'VE have got to realize that the greater
part of the world is coiored. The caucasian
Gus races and kinds OF man are going to
stay in their place But men do not keep
within race lines so he finds himself forced
TO another and much more indefenSible po-
sition that he is going to keep them there
Then he is handling dynamite. Great
masses of men can't be kept down. There
is nothing like the strength of men TO rise
who. even beaten TO their knees, are deter
mined to be men.