The Washington times., 1920-06-13
CHAPTER XII.
The Inner bikes.

We come now to the frontiers, of
the white world-to its true from
tiers. marked, not by boundary stones,
but by flesh and blood.
These frontiers are not continuous;
far from the European homeland.
some run in remote quarters of the
earth, sundered by vast stretches OF
ocean and connected only by the
slate-gray thread OF sea power-the
master talisman which the white man
still grasps firmly in his hand.
But against these race-frontiers-
these "inner dikes"-tne rising tide
and will beat yet more fiercely as
cong resting population. quickened self
consciousness and heightened sense of
power impel the colored world to ex-
pansion and dominion.
Above the eastern horizon the dark
storm clouds lower. and the weak
ened distracted white. world must
soon face a colored peril threatening
its integrity. and perhaps its exist
ence.
This colored peril has three facets
the peril of arms, the peril of mar
kets and the peril of migration. All
three contain ominous potentialities.
both singly and in combination.
MILITARY POTENCY.
How shall we appraise the colored
peril Of arms?
On the whole, it would appear as
though the colored military danger,
in its isolated. purely aggressive as
pect. has been exaggerated. Visions
of a united Asia, rising suddenly in
fanatic frenzy and hurling brown and
yellow myriads upon the white West,
seem to be the products of SUPER
heated imaginations. .,-..-t.
say "seem,- becaQse there are un-
questionably mystenous emotional
depths in the Asiatie soul which may
yet justify the prophets OF cata-
efysmic war.
Asiatic war fever may appear. IL
not in isolation, then in conjunction
with other stimuli to wariike action
like population pressure or imperial
istic ambition, which today exist and
whose amplitude can be approx
mately gagged.
We have already analyzed the mill
tary potencies OF Pan-Islamism and
Japan, and China also should not be
forgotten. Pacifist though China has
long been. she has had her bellicose
moments in the past, and may have
them in the future Should this occur
China as the worlds greatest reser-
voir Of intelligent man-power. would
be immensely formidable.
The potentialities OF the Chinese
soldier would acquire vastly greater
Significance II China should be thor
oughly subjugated by, or solidly
leaGued to, ambitious and militaristic
Japan. The combined military ener-
gies OF the Far East. welded into an
aggressive unity, would be q weapon
OF tremendous striking power.
The colored peril of arms may thus
be summarized: The brown and yell
low races possess great military po-
tentialities. These are unlikely to
flame out in spontaneous fAnaticfsm /;
but. on the other hand. they are very
likely to be mobilized for political
reasons like revolt against white do
minion or for social reasons like over
population.
ECONOMIC rHAsE.
We are now ready to examine the
economic facet of the colored peril (:
the industrial-mercantile phase. !
have shown the profound effect of
tho industrial rsvoiution" in fur
thering white woyld-supremacy. and
pointed out the tremendous sdvsnt-
ages accruing to the white world
from exploitation OF undeveloped col
ored lands and from exports OF manu-
fsctured goods to colored markets.
We little realize what the loss OF
these advantages would mean. As a
matter Of fact. II would mean
throughout the white world dimin-
ished prosperity. lessened political
and military strength. and such rela-
tive economic and social stagnation
as would depress national viEor and
check population,
ta M al n all tvS
white world revertins to the condi-
tion OF Europe in the fifteenth cen.
tury-thrown back upon itself, on the
defensive, and with a static rather
than a progressive civilization. Such
conditions could, OF course, occur only
as the result Of colored military and
industriAl trinmphs of the .most