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Show YELLOW PERIL ALL NONSENSE. (By Dr. T. Iyenaga, Japaneso Lecturer.) No term was over coined which seems so weighty and portentous and is yet so vague, indefinite and ghost-Hko ghost-Hko as the words yellow peril of tho Orient. It has no head, no tall. Who can tell what It means? Docs it mean that the races of Asia are to be allowed to govern their own countries for their own use, free from tho Interference or domination of European Eu-ropean nations r If that is its meaning, mean-ing, then there is a yellow peril. No well wishers of humanity can object to such a peril. . Does It mean that the Japaneso, eager after their taste of military glory, Intend to annex Russia, Germany, Ger-many, France or England? Thero is not ono lunatic under tho Japaneso flag who Is guilty of such a mad de-sign. de-sign. Talk of the yellow peril is simply nonsense; it Is absurd; it is silly. Japan has looked to tho west for tho last fifty years as Its teacher, and with wonderful humility has assimilated assimi-lated the best of western civilization. Sho is not so foolish as to cut loose from this, her source of strength. Japan Ja-pan is to be tho honest broker who shall carry to tho darkened Asiatic peoples tho blazing boacon of western civilization. Thero is no yellow peril except yellow yel-low journalism. The fear embodied In tho term arises from ignorance, or it has been raised by European diplomats diplo-mats In furtherance of their sinister intentions in the far east. Japan has no thirst for empire and was always ready to make peaco as soon as Russia would come to her senses. |