Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-06-12

has changed my easy going opinion
that white supremacy which we take
as matter of course, is going to last
forever unchecked and unchallenged.
A mad purpose possesses these
turbulent races of the orient to win
place and power for themselves.
White leadership may be best; it is
best, hut it must be considerate and
thoughtful. The spectacle Of white
nations buil1ing ever greater navies,
quipping ever more soldiers is not
edifying to the lesser breeds of earth.
1t is not less disconcerting to see
these same higher races grabbing the
lands of weaker nations on fimsy
pretexts and then lording it over their
new and unwilling subjects in
laundering, unsympathetic fashion.
Such conditions as these do not lead
the colored races to regard white
leadership as an unremitting blessing
What has been said may seem to you
fanciful but all you need to do is
TO gu and see for yourself. it will
be perfectly obvious, Tskhiara
Japan today has not only largely dis.
placed European steamers from the
carrying trade of the Pacific but she
is invading the Atlantic.
There is no port in the Pacific to-
day so obscure or distant that you
may not see that significant Japanese
flag. In many lines of labor the
Chinese aud the Japanese would
crowd us off from the earth if we did
not fence ourselves in by protective
legislati IN. In Hawaii the Japanese
are elbowing everybody out, natives
and whites alike. Honolulu looks
like japanese city today. The Jew
is the keenest and most instructive
trader of the white race, the brown
skinned Hindoo can drive him to the
wall every time, in turn the China
man can beat the Hindoo and he is
doing it.
You see J. e. slowly but surely
crowding his way into the commercial
life of India possessing the stores, the
small shops even of Calcutta, while
Rangoon, Penang and Singapore are
essentially Chinese cities. The
Heather Chinee are the best fruit
growers and general agriculturaIists
known; they can get more out of the
ground than any other people on earth
The Chinese are rolling their own
rails, gIrders and plates in their big
steel mills. They are sending steel
rails to this country in spite of the
heavy tariff handicap. The Japanese
workmen are building as fine steamers
as float, the cotton mills of Bonn bay
are serious rivals of European mills
in certain grades of cloth. While
for fine embroideries, silks and
satins the looms of India, China and
Japan stand unrivalled. What may
these inferior people not do with the
better methods they are now acquir-
ing These races live largely in the
tropics and sub TROPICS, where land
| is least developed and exploited and
where it is most recuperarive The
white races live in re nparate regions
where ara BIZ land is largely gone and
where the limit of productivity under
present conditions has practically
been reached. Best paying crops
of the world are raised in tropics,
cotton, sugar, toF acco, tea, coffee,
spices. The colored races are be-
ginning to wake up TO this fact and
to the possibilities of the soil under
improved cultivation. When they do
fully wake up they will have an
enormously productive soil with
valuable products to give them wealth
and prestige. Your generation must
reckon with these people, you must
meet them wisely and intelligently.
We have a serious culorad problem
within the boundaries OF our own
country, more serious one looms up
On the horizon waited to us from
lands beyond the seas.
What are you going to do about
it2
Our problems however are not all
with other races but with our own
race and we need to think of it and
of orr obligation to it. We Amer-
cans are to prone to live not only too
closely within the bounds of our own
day. We neither sufi GENTLY con
slider the teachings of the past nor do
we look ahead of and beyond our own
time and think of the coming
generations, of their needs and pro-
blems, AS you go forth into life one
great principle should be a part of
your equipment. What may do to
make life more tolerable for those
who follow me. We who live today
are only at the very threshold of
human existence on the globe. Man
hos lived on fhe earth Onlv q few