The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1913-09-04
WHITE RACE PERIL
SEEN BY A WRITER
Have Done More Harm Than
Any Other Race, Quick
Announces.
palladium Specially

fure lowers dark with problems" said
Herbert Quick, the well known writer
today, land for the first time ip world
history, the people are wise enough to
see the problems. And to solve them?
Well, perhaps. But if they solve them,
they must think about them.
"You havn heard a whole lot about
the ship o 5ute," he continued. "Yes,
I'll wager that you never heard po-
litical speaker during a big national
campaign who didn't use that term
half a dozen times before he finished
his speech.
have been thinking of the ship of
state and never once have they had
the proper perspective.
All Are in Same Boat.
"Call it ship of state if you will. It's
mot We're on board the good ship
Earth, if you please. We're all in the
same boat The Laplander and the
Jap; the Boer and the Spaniard; the
Chinaman and the American. And
there's where the rub comes in.
"You don't buy a ticket to take a
Oh DOdTu Tie SOOu SHlp IIdl Ill
You just happen upon it and you
can't get off. You've got to stay here
until the Lord knows when. And then
you just drop off, or rather, you go
down into the hull somewhere, and
that's all that's ever heard of you.
But while some of the passengers
are going down into the hull, there
are lot more, thousands more, hap
pening on board. The deck room is
limited just as it is on any large
ocean-going liner. These new passen-
gers must find place for themselves.
Some of them who happened to come
aboard on that part of the deck called
Japan, finding it crowded, have come
over to that part called America, and
up goes the cry of yellow peril.
The Greatest Peril.
"Over on another part of the deck
1t is learned that there are conditions
which do not conform with the ideas
of the majority of the passengers and
we raise the cry of the Mohammedan
Peril Then there's the Portuguese
Spanish Peril, the Russian Peril, the
sHindoo Peril, the black Peril, but
did you ever think what the greatest
Peril of them all is?
"Well, if you haven't, let me tell
you. 1t is the white peril. And I'll
tell you why.
when rulership begins in human
affair peril begins. Public servants
come only with successful democracy
and are blessings. But rulers are al
ways a peril. The white race is the
ruler of the good ship earth and is a
world peril. OF all the seven the
Iwhite peril is the greatest.
Japan is the only nation which is
mot ruled in ways more or less direct
by the white race. Ushering in the
ERA of discovery, the white race, find
ing the people in weakness and ignor-
ance, made it an era of conquest, ex-
termination and exploitation.
"This has never ceased. The grab
bling of Tripoli is the latest of hor-
rid catalogue of which the conquest
tof Mexico may be taken as the first.
.Africa has been subdued and enslaved.
South America went to Spain and
Portugal, where the whites, after es-
stablishing their prestige in landlord
ism and aristocracy, cut loose from
Spain and founded mixed blood re-
publics' ruled and ruined by whites
Northern Asia and Mongolian, Finland
and Lapland Have yielded to Russia;
England, France and Holland have
seized the South Seas, farther India
and Hindoostan. Britain took and
peopled North America, save for poor
Mexico, which crumbled into slavery
under the Spanish conquistadors.
Japan is Lucky Nation.
"Only in lucky, valorous Japan, in
the Arabian ana African deserts and
in the mountain eyries like Nepal and
Abyssinia are found free nations of
Brown, black and yellow men. The
white man is at present supreme.
"Our race accepted in Christianity
the perfect system of ethics. 1t took
the headship in intellect when it un-
rolled the marvellous book of modern
science. 1t has a sublime opportunity
to uplife the colored races in the era
brought in by Columbus and DaGama
AT the wheel of the good ship earth
stood the white man steering it whith-
er he would. He was captain. He
had the firearms. He alone knew in
vention and science. He had the chart
in the command Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself,' and he had the
Golden Rule as compass. He knew
the form of the ship-none other
knew. To him was given the great
est opportunity ever known, the most
fearful responsibility, the most awful
opening for service. He had the
chance to remake a world!
He failed. He refused the oppor-
tunity. He, as captain, betrayed his
trust Accepting the cloak of Chris
tianity, the white race defied Jesus
a million times each hour. False fol-
lowers of the Prince of Peace, the
white race took to pagan lands I'M
dreamed-of engines of murder and I'M
heard of effiency in it. Processing the
faith which began in a crude COM
munism which gave to each as he had
need from those who possessed, and
under which none wanted, the white
race has not only not tried to extir-
pate poverty among themselves, but
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