| Show S HEAP SCARE Did any one ever thInk that the while races are up against the fixed colors of all the world around 1 In the animal world tho fixed colors denote distinct races in which there Is not much progress pro-gress and which as a rule are untamable untama-ble The leopard does not change his spots and he Is Just the same today th the t-he was when he came out of the ark The bluish on the womans cheek shows that cultivation has been going on forages for-ages Tho dark races do not blush But surely the races are arrayed against each other the pale against the brown tho yellow and the black In Luzon In China In India in northern north-ern Africa It is the same race Is pitted pit-ted against race In the aggregate the few against the many the Caucasian against the African the Mongolian the Indian and the JMalay And how is all this coming out The prospect ought to make a general alliance among the palerace nations for it Is an array of ten millions against less than five It did not matter when the yellow race was not armed but he Is armed now and a vast horde arc trained for war We suspect that this crisis will be passed or at least patched up but this Is but a beginning Suppose the training goes on for twenty or fifty years and that is not much time In the life of a nation that has maintained Its Institutions unchanged un-changed for live thousand years what then The nations In their greed for trade forced open the Mongolian gates They Just began to realize that those gates swung outward as well as In and what a terror was let loose by that act Imagine those millions trained to arms and starting out on tho conquest of the world or imagine that raco trained in the arts and In the handling of the great industries and starling out to make a conquest of the worlds trade what then When they build ships those ships will cost less than onefourth what the most economic eco-nomic nation of the generous races can build It for The coal for her voyage will bo less than the coal of the other ships In like proportion Her pay roll will be correspondingly less and the cargo In her hold If they manufacture It themselves will be so much cheaper than that of any generous nation that competition will be impossible This race can not all be killed cannot much bo beaten hack and all the time It Is gathering experience Tho men have trained l away their beards the women their breasts For four thousand years they have been in training against famine until they are stripped of every superfluous feature They need but little air to brcatho their stomachs will assimilate food that the white man could not swallow they had been making ma-king their sullen fight against want throo thousand years when Caesar fell In the Roman forum they stand for i the trained athletes of the world They are about to swarm this yellow hive what then Are wo sure that after all they are not going to rulo 1 tho world 11 |
