Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-07-18

Rising Tide Of Color Against White
World Supremacy.
one OF the most noteworthy books OF
| the past year is, The Rising Tide OF
color Against White World Suprem
acy' by Theodore I.athrop Stoddard
me authop has written a number OF
BOOKS IN the fields of history, sociology
ana economics, He has Ph. d.
from Harvard and has also been adj
mltted to the bar His book is net
ther very pleasant nor optimistic, but
neither arc many OF the lessons which
the war has taught us. Following
are several passages from this book
yellow mans land. After a brief
ACQUAINTANCE with the white strang
ers, The yellow world decided that it
wanted none OF them and they were
rigidly excluded, This exclusion pol.
icy was not 4 Chinese regularity. il
VAS common to all the yellow peoples
and was adopted spontaneously at
about the same time In China, ia.
pan, Korea, and ndoChina, the same
reaction produced the same results.
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white men to be a destructive, dis.
solving influence on its highly spe-
ciali2ed line of evolution which it
wished to maintain unaltercd. For
three centuries the yellow world sue
ceeded in maintaining its isolation.
then. in the middle of the last cen
fury msistent white pressure broke
down the barriers and forced the vel,
low races into full contact with the
outside world.
Whatever may have been the
worlds misleading Of the Chino-Jap-
anese conflict, the same cannot be
said OF the Russo-Japanese war of
1914, The echos of that yellow tri-
umph over one of the great white
powers reyerberated to the ends Of
the earth and started obscure strains
OF consequence even today not yet
fully disclosed
No one who has ever studied the
question doubts that as there is a
comfy OF Europe, so there is a comfy
of Asia, a disposition to believe that
Asia belongs to the Asatics and that
any event which brings that right
nearer to realization to all Asiatics is
a pleasureable one
Japan's attitude toward her huge
neighbor is one of mingled superior.
ity and apprehension She banks on
Chinas traditional pacifism, yet she
is too shrewd not TO realize the ex.
plosive possibilities latent in the mod.
ern nationalist idea Japau's mas
terful policy in China is thus un-
questionably hazardous. TO turn
China's ancient nationalism into
purely anti-white channels and to
transmute Chinese patriotism into d
wider n-Mangolism" would cOnsti
tute a Japanese triumph of incalcul-
able splendOr 1t would increase her
effective force MANIFOLD and would
open up almost limftless vistas of
power and glory
i Nor are the Chinese themselves
blind to the advantage Of Chino-Jap-
anese cooperation. They have an
assurance in their own
capacities, they know how they have
digested all their conquer
ors, and many Chinese today think
that from a Chinese-Japanese partner
ship, no matter how framed, the in
scrhtable Sons of Han would even.
tually get the lions share.
One thing is certaiu-both these
over populated lands will feel increas-
ingly the imperious need of racial ex-
pansion. For these reasons then, the
present political tension between Chi
IA and Japan cannot be reckoned as
permanent
Putnam Weale, for twenty years ad-
wiser to China, writes: 1T can no
longer be doubted that very DELHI
crate policy is certainly being quietly
and cleyerly pursued Despite all
ienials, it is fact that Japan has
already a great hold in the schools
and in the vernacular newspapers all
over eastern Asia, and that the gos-
pei Of Asia for the Asiatcs" is be-
ing steadily preached not only by her
5chol0masters and editors, but by her