The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-01-26
INTERNATIONAL POISON

AN LAMA lUFAL FUioUN
A sinister pro-German anti-Jap-
anese campaign is being carried on
/ IN America The Hearst pa pers seek
10 divert American attention from
the ira Fedy due To Cierrpany'E i'm
per1alistic and militaristic ambitions.
j Ihey wish to create mostly against
Japan rs leader in world conflict of
me white and yellow races. DR.. Gu
mex, who has written this article, has
lived in Japan for nearly thirty
years and is now serving as the sec
F.. Rotary OF the commission on reIa~
tons with the Orient Of the fedora !
council Of the churches Of Christ in
I America. His comments on Hea rst' .
editorial deserve wide attention. I'm
legs this Hearst poison of race pref
udice' and this malicious interna-
tonai Islander is overcome the flu
ture of the world looks black. This
KIND OF anti-Ja panese campaign may
uitim atcly create real yellow per-
IT. for the Oceident because IL will
create real white peril for the
Orient. Here il Or. Gulick's article:
The reruicious doctrine seduiously
tnstilled for two generations into the
rank and file of the German people.
asserting the intrinsic superiority OF
their race. religion and kuitur and
prophesying that they and THEIR ku1-
tur are to secure world domination
by military proves has been the
chief cause of the present world
ragedy.
A similarly pernic'ous doctrine Of
white race superiority" is being Sc
7ulousiy lnatilied into the minds of
, the American people It's advocates
talk continuously of white race
world supremacy and the f'inevita-
BILE conflict o. tho white and yellow
races for world dominion" This
, propa ganda is preparing us for an
other world tragedy II this paycho-
logical poison is not overcome soon
enough by the appropriate anti-;oxiu.
It IS not difficult to foresee what the
future has in store for the world.
Tho latest injection into the veins
Of the American people of this inter
national poison, is two column edi.
tori7l IN a recent edition OF the New
York American. from which the fol-
! lowing qut3ttons are taken. The edi-
torial iE no doubt reproduced in all
the Hearst papers throughout the
! United states, which are more wide
/ ~ reed by the rank and file OF our
PEOPLE than any other papers In
America,
Americans must be deep
IS alarmed by the success OF
Japanese diplomacy and the sit
naton created by that dipio-
macy.
We do not know whether
there Is a danger Of the Jap
nn@se Joining with Germany
which makes our government so
c0nsideTate OF Japan, or wheth-
er our government iS merely I'M
sus2ecting of the very obvious
designs Of Japan,
II IS a thousand times more
dangerous to the United States to
hevc west Siberia nall into the
hands of the Bolsheviki or even
TO have It fall under the influ-
ence of the Germans,
What is. TO protect the United
States itself from the attack
which the then great Oriental ma
ton, embracing China, Japan.
Korea and western Siberia may
launch upon us?
The war in Europe. hideous as
Il is. is merely a family quarrel
compared to the terrible struggle
that will some day be fought to
the yellow races for the domino
ton Of the world.
The only battles COT the past)
which count arc the battles which
saved white races from subju-
cation by the yellow races. and
he only thing Of real I'M portance
today la the rescue of the white
races from conditions which
make their nbjugation by the
yellow races possible u
The great problem with which
he white races have to deal IN
The inevitable and irresponsible
1irre pressible conflict OF the
races with the yellow races for
the dominion of the world.
IL II rot time that the white
nations settled their quarrels
among themselves and made
+ preparations to meet their one
real danger, the menace to
Christianity. 20 Occidental stand
ards and ideals, to the white
mans civilization. which the con-
stantly growing power ana ag-
eression OF tho yellow races con-
tinually and increasingly threat
en-?
Are the abominahle writings ot
Bernhard 7Treitschke and the whole
cabai Of -Germanists any more
damnsble and Fundamentally de-
structlve than those quoted above?
Wherein does the doctrine of white
race superiority differ ir arrogance
from that OF a ''reutont. superior
I ity'' And Is the brand Of Chris
;anity OF which the last paragraph
speaks religion peculiar to the
white race and its God particularly
concerned In their victory over the
world?
Shall Americans complacently let
| this doctrine run its course until 1t
plunges the world into another ocean
OF bIood7