The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-01-27
Bv Fred l.. Boalt


4 While ago an archaeolosist
found. 40 feet underground. stone
tablet on which was written an
ediet TO this effect:
Il soand-So. Emperor OF the Uni
yerse. being yexed with the impu-
dent Barbarians OF the North, do
Aef<by order such-and.such OF my
re,ersls to move against them and
svipa them off the face OF the earth
The person who caused the tablet
. y written was Persian.
Do not know what. II anything.
happesed to the impudent Barbari-
80 o. the North. do not even
Assu the name OF the Persian gen
1Iunsn.
: y uyen-xlil-sakea.lonx slant at his
tn, you will find that the Egyp-
.tinaG TIE Babylonians, the Persians.
~ Greeks and the Romans. each In
ythelr turn became powerful and
shzushty. and spoke slightingly OF
III Bsrbarians OF somewhere or
.cther.
4 Aad each In turn became so over
seivili1ed and decadent and indolcnt
Gaf they themselves were wiped
sut By the Barbsrians whom they
6esp'sed.
Rev. William Turnbull Locke,
Presbyterian missionary from
China. calls this the rhythm OF his
lmy.T'
what 10 the persisn Of to-
6sy! A. home he 10 the play.
thing ef the Powers. Here he
pstdIss rugs from door TO door.
The Egyptian st home 10 . beg
oss. Here he 10 . fortune-teii-
Ing fsker. The Greek shines
ssr shoes The Roman 10 .
@dseo." ard builds our rail-
reads.
A joker No. One Of the big
Tragedies Of history.
Rev. Locke is one OF three Pres
b5ierian missionaries who have
cone to Seattle 10 raise money for
acampaign 10 make Chin a good"
nation. Nothing. he says. can pre-
Vent her becoming a great one.
In other cities f. this country
and Europe are other returning mis-
sionaries. Of all Protestant denomi.
nations. all bent on the same mis-
sion and all telling the same story.
Ware the Yellow Peril,
Not the Yellow Peril that you
and have bothered our heads
apout--a peril OF yellow men bid
alns for our jobs. A bigger peril
than that.
Ware the Barbarians Of the
Fest,
having taken long slant at his
'ofy, take one now at the worlds
map.
The Turk ls in process o. being
rolled back from Europe TO Asia.
shence ne came. The Turk Is Mo-
nsmmedan. Also the Turk II
hshter and Is buying dreadnorghts.
Jump now to India. Two hun.
afed and seventy.fiye million yel-
Nv men acknowledging allegiance
. 1hite-skInned ruler only be.
ssase OF the loyalty to Great Brit
sil OF the Mohammedans.
And the fate Of British suxer.
s'nfy In india tottered when,
'sho"in9 the Russo-Japan
80 the news swept through
s"s that a yellou-sklnn;d race
.so tnrashed white skinned.
Az Asia stirred.
..'en IN the fastnesses OF Tibet
~ among the unc united millions
'ne ninterland the word swept.
nese. an" tue 'hi
mo-. sney are. says Rev. Locke. the
~ 'irile people In the world"
H., ,ns president OF Harvard univer.
A., A. says OF the ~ Chinese stu.
1 mere: 4 do not know where
Os,s uva'a ., ind 40 young men TO com.
~.e with them" O"
a. quarter Of the worlds nonuta.
'on . in China ''P'''
sn.d emma republic and awak.
tbem 'ne young men--or some Of
Rurn~eoucated in American and
AL A'.ah ,a universities. are saying
dsad1f de- 'of The Asiatics. with Europe
.,e There Is in China ,o,,n,,.,
tIers lug ~ army Of 5000 900. II the sol.
'" thts pOteutfai o,,.... -.