Show tl THE JAPS AS A RACE y The New NewY York Sun thinks that the rapid advance of Japan is not without precedent in Asia It cites the case of Cyrus the Great emerging from his highland highland highland high high- land principality of Persia proper which by the they y way vay way is a mis mistake ake for Cyrus was a Mede and arid notes note U J that at in less than fifty years he with his son on CainA Cam Cain A created a great monarchy that extended from to Smyrna and from the Caspian to the theis is i second cataract of the Nile next the advance of the c which destroyed the empire that Alexander Alexan Alexan- r der del had up and stood off the Roman world i d for centuries It cites the swift sway of the w and the mighty conquests of Genghis Khan H h. and nd does not think that the achievements of Japan t are unnatural We think the logic is faulty A All l the conquests soke spoken of of were ere due to to the genius of a few amen men who with disciplined armies swept the mobs be- be f N. N ore fore them Fifty years ago the Japanese had nothing nothing noth- noth ing irig ing but the bow and spear It is fa only forty years V since they began to learn the fighting arts of civilization civilization civilization tion on sea and land but in their war with Russia I they demonstrated that they had reduced the art of war to an exact science that they could handle ships Z as perfectly as any nation of the earth that they had hadA hada hadea A a courage courage and accuracy which was never neve before seen tin in war ar and more they demonstrated th that t even the women o of Japan have all that old terrible 1 that caused that that Spartan mother other to tell herson her tel iII lson son to come home with his shield or upon it 11 hen a ship load loae of soldiers drawn from the common people preferred to sink with their ship rather lather than to accept succor from the enemy there was a revelation tion ion of a race that may be killed but cannot be sub- sub d clued ed This is what distinguishes the Japanese from all all other peoples of the earth or all the peoples that l have ave existed on the earth since old Rome raised that class of soldiers who preferred dying against fearful fearful fearful fear ful odds for the ashes of their fathers and the altars of their gods rather than surrender It isn't that the Japanese are proficient in arms that they are the terror of the earth It is because every everyone one of them seems to be a Paul Jones who when his ship was riddled with cannon shot when all his rigging was shot away when his ship was was rapidly filling with water water water wa wa- ter and the ship above and below decks was cumbered cumbered cumbered cum cum- with dying and dead men to a summons o of f surrender he answered back I haven't begun to fight yet |