Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-06-14

ment not dreamed of 1876 years ago.
So far as actual publicity is concern
ed it may be said that we live in a
garish daylight. The news Of the
world goes to practically every citizen
at least once a week. Most of us
would not be satisfied unless we had it
at least once a day, and many OF us
want 1t twice a day. Personally,
wish that I might have a good rest on
Sunday or, in any event, that could
have a paper of about four pages with
the news of Saturday severely boiled
down.
1t is useless for a newspaper man to
talk about what he wants. There is
great American public which gets
what it wants.
In this age of publicity, all Chris
tendon is one great household. Every
country and every citizen of every
country may know what all Of the rest
Of the world Is doing day by day. All
the processes of progress and of gov
ernment have undergone a radical
change because of the influence of
publicity and ntercommunication.
If it should transpire that warfare
is at an end it will be because nations
can no longer nurse secret. grievances
and that warlike preparations must
proceed with the full knowledge Of
other nations. Publicity projects it's
piercing rays to every nook and cram
ny of Christendom.
The Aryan began his western od-
vance from northern India at a snails
pace. 1t was many centuries before
he appeared in Greece. The transfer
of his civilization to Rome had to be
personally conducted. The Aryan
fought his way through Spain and
France with a torch in one hand and
sword in the other. On he went,
bearing up against the forces of resis-
tance. The head of his flying column
now rests on these shores.
March of Civilization.
The march westward Of the white
mans civilization was characterized
| by two great physical processes. There
were the inevitable wars Of conquest
followed by the mixture Of race, with
the resultant change of civilization. A
pause, a waxing of luxury, a partial
decadence, and then in due time an
irresistible restlessness and a new
movement to the west.
AS the bees, having completed the
work of the hive, abandon the prod
ucts of their intelligence and energy
and swarm for fresh enterprise, so
the great Aryan race has shown its
lcontempt for comfort and luxury and
struck out anew i'm obedience to some
Ideep-seated pioneering instinct which
has been the inspiration Of the
worlds progress.
| The completion Of this globe-gird-
ling tour-if indeed. the full circle
is to be rounded out-will be achiev-
ed by a different method. The pro-
cesses that required hundreds Of years
may be worked out by steam, electric
ity and printers ink in a decade. For
have we not seen Japan a little
heather country in the antipodes,
emerge in a single generation from
utter barbarism to a high order OF
civilization? 1 am far from thinking
that the Jap is a white man or that
you will find a. barbarian. I believe
that most of us have walked up from
the dream that misled us into an un-
natural sympathy with this little yell
low man in his fight with the Rus
sian. Most of us now see that war as
it really was-the struggle between
one nation standing in a rough way
for Christianity and another nation
distinctly and irretrievably heather.
But Japan illustrates my point. Un-
der the old order, Japan would have
fought battleships. sanitated an army
and conducted governmental at all
only after the white race had con-
quered her and there had ensued an
actual amalgamation Of race. She
has done all that on information
transmitted by wire and mail.
A people much less quick to learn,
but more sturdy, and lying further to
the west in the path of the Aryan
bound back home has only Within a
few months. by means of the modern
mechanism of steam, electricity and
printers ink, caught the spirit of
progress. China, with its countless
millions. has aroused itself from its
long sleep and started on a career of
progress, the end of which no man
can see.