Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-07-18
REDDICK'S LIBRARY
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merchants and peddlers and every
other man who travels,
If Japan allied herself with England
II was with the object OF establishing
Japanese preponderauce in China and
against the enCroacnments of Russia
Today the English seem to be neglect.
ing their obligations toward Japan by
not supporting her cause. Let Eng.
land beware! Japan will tolerate no
wavering she is quite ready to
abandon the Anglu-Japanese alliance
and turn to Russia power with
whom she can agree perfectly in re.
gard to far Eastern interests. In the
future, even, she is ready to draw
closer to Germany. The English col
onists will then be in great peril.
There is no reason for striking a
moral attitude and inveighng Japan
csc 'WickcdncSs' as many people are
doing today. These mighty racial
vital urges; Sclf.eNpression and self
tides flow from the most elemental Of
preservation
The unexpected ending of the Eur.
opean war was as we have seen a
blow TO Japanese calculations. New,
erthelcss, the skill OF her diplomats at
the ensuing Versailles conference en-.
abled Japan to harvest most of her
war gains. Japan took advantage Of
the opportunity to pose as the cam.
paign OF the colored races by urging
the formal PRONUNCIATION OF racial
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ment especially as regards immigra.
ton. OF course the Japanese had no
serious expectation of their demands
being acceded to- in fact, they might
have been rather embarrassed if they
had succeeded, in view OF Japans
own stringent laws against immigra-
tion and alien landholding
Chinas possibilities of race expan.
ion in the far east are excellent 1t
has been estimated that the unde.
velOped portions OF the Dutch Indies
alone are capable of supporting l00,-
100000 people living on the frugal
Chinese plane.
The same cannot be said however,
for Japan. The Japanese bred in
distinctly temperate inland environ.
ment, have not the Chinese adaptable.
ity to climate variation. The natural
outlets lie outside Asia in the United
States. Australia and the temperate
ports of Latin America. But all these
outlets are vigorously barred by the
white man who has marked them for
his own race heritage, and nothing but
force will break these barriers down.
There lies the danger, not merely to
the peace Of the far east but to the
peace of the world.
Black Mans Land. The black race
has never shown real constructive
power. 1t has never built up a ma.
tive civilization Such progress as
certain negro groups have made has
been due to external pressure and has
never long outlived that pressures re.
mOval. They have never founded
stone city, have never built ship.
have never produced literature, have
never suggested a creed. Unless we
are to disregard every lesson of his,
tory. we must conclude that black AT,
RIGA is unable TO stand alone The
white man must stand fast in Africa.
No black Renaissance" impends. and
Africa, if abandoned by the whites,
would merely fall beneath the onset
of the browns.
Latin America The Latin Amer-
can situation is, indeed, akin to that
of Africa Latin America cannot stand
alone. An inexoraDIe dilemma i'm
Ponds; white or yellow The white
man had been the first in the field and
holds the central colored zone be-
tween two strong bases, north and
sOutht, where his tenure is the unim-
peachable title of race.
The Yellow immigrant. No one in
California or Australia, where the eff
fects of Chinese competition have
been studied, has, | believe, the small
est doubt that Chinese laborers, If al.
lowed to come in freely, could starve
all the white men in either country or
out of it, or force them to submit to
harder work and much lower stand.