Show THE YELLOW TERROR The cloud over China grows darker and darker and when It finally rises there is C wellgrounded fear that fi scene of horror will bo revealed that j I will shock the civilized world tfliere j Is a look about it all as though a certain cer-tain frenzy had swept over the hordes of that great empire such as set Alarlc I and Attlla on their terrible raids Of course they can be driven back but then what Suppose they could be subdued and their country partitioned what then No part of China would be I Germanized or Rusianlzed or Americanized Ameri-canized Rather the Invaders would be ChinaJzed Beyond all that there Is another peril The great dread is what China will when awakened be to the I Industrial world This Is what made the fearless CalIfornians thirty years ago afraid They saw fTolm steal in with a pole upon his shoulder and a bundle on either end of the pole There was the noncombatant smile upon his face but the merciless thrift was ln his heart They saw him cat food that the stomachs of all generous races would Instantly reject they saw twenty twen-ty Chinese living and working in a room not large enough for three white people to live in they saw them wilting wilt-ing to work for wages that would not support an American child and Ir a Ill tie while discovered that with their Imitative qualities they could quickly master tho simpler arts and by opening open-ing a shop across the way could soon drive their former employers out of business and they cried out against the Invasion But now all the Indications Indica-tions are that the mighty hive has begun be-gun to swarm and the fear is that It will be as when the locusts swarm and start on their night consuming all vegetation as they move They may become a mighty military power It Is possible for them to put thirty millions of soldiers in the Held but they arc much more a menace in industrial than in the military field The nations have proclaimed 1the open door towar l China That open door must have hinges which will permit per-mit It to swing out as well as In and when rich men see what can be done what will prevent their building factories fac-tories on Chinese soil and producing goods at onefourth the present cost What then will become of the workers of generous nations The yellow terror ter-ror Is one that the majority of the world docs not yet half comprehend 1 |