Show t. t i Is Japan The Peril Paris Of The World t Edward H. H Hamilton writes a tit as f follows in the San Francisco Ex Examiner Examiner Ex- Ex z E K r Here ere we fe are throwing our caps capsin in the air and shouting ov over r i. F Japanese successes It is a natural J feeling feeling the e sympathy with the i little follow fellow in in the fight But Hut are not nut cheering on the one one e great peril of modern ci civilization The researches of th the plodding archaeologist and the tho pa patient historian give us fragment fragmentary it y t t tales es of ci civilization w which has hus t. t g 9 grown grown up in n this world only to be s swept swept into oblivion oblivion A nation has hlis f w waxed waxed rich xe rich and great giett Art has flourished literature has been established The proud decla- decla lation has made Look on my works ye mighty and despair 1 I Ir r Y Then some new and militant 1 people with none of the tho airs airs and rind J- J gr graces es but with a fierce lust for f figh fighting ng has ha swept over t that at civilization Their temples have i JJ r been wrecked been wrecked the statues rt down The trumpet has taken 4 L' L the the place of t e. e n fu r me-r f- f and and d the war chant has drowned the notes of the love song has hasi i been lost and where there strong trong proud cities stood the he lone ione and level sands stretch far away Lf Nothing remains save some lone monolith or shattered pedestal to c tell the tale of growth and glory C and nd of wreck sr There were civilizations before f Ninevah and Babylon The ap appealing appealing appealing ap- ap pealing glyphs of Palenque tell that on our own continent were cities and a civilization for plo prouder cr than any that greeted the eyes of oi i 1 I Columbus or the conquistadores Athens and Rome we almost know i and later still the theart art and which grew up around the bea beautiful language of Oc Vcr were I 3 i t wiped away by the rude hands o of I northern warriors t In In the nature o of ci our present presen rt civilization is no not ft n finality That too must pass It will be become be- be I come conic another layer tayer in the up buildt build build- t 0 iD ing inh of manhood The Tho alone fisherman will wash his nets in th the river liver of the ten thousands masts Those which have emulated the tho glory glor of Athens will share her fate tt Where is the apparent peril China Men who study world I con conditions IOD baie felt that J t the c yellow min man was the menace vivi Vl- Vl I nation had to fear The numbers I 4 were there All they ne needed was I t. t the leaven of ambition t. t But ut China b remained i inert er t. t When b CD If k ir cK J fi j. j W. W f f d 1 1 r r. r f c. c Japan Jup n attacked her she was found flabby and incapable Her Hor hordes I CO cooM c not bo be made effective It Hus isab Ii like ke the tho laying of a ghost The The ho students and statesmen I breathed a n sigh of relief The bogy logy ogy was not a u menace after all But Jut But now comes a a combat which really eally is s a fA struggle for the control of if hina Diplomacy may way disguise dis disguise dis- dis guise that fact as she may it s still remains a fact Suppose Japan should win It is within a hundred hun bun dred hed years China would become Japanese perhaps Japanese within a n quarter quai- quai tei ter of that time Then w what Lat Japan apan is ib a now and nation just such a nation tion as always always' has bas arisen to wipe away the old civi civi- The Japanese have a wonderful talent for military ry With the hundreds of ol millions of China mobilized what hat could stop p them The man an of the hand theoff off oft hand v view ew says that th the Chinaman is ib no not iii an effective fighter Neither was the East India but too teo eo what England already has done with the men who fled lied at the first fire of Clives Clive's thin line or whimpered under the lash of the Tartar raiders The Chinese troops in England's army are among t the e best regiments The a ion ii Ti fatalist and the Saracens taught the world how how fierce a foe is the man who feels that his soul will be bo tossed drom i the b word point into paradise se J It will will ll be a sad da day for Occidental civilization on when China is is mobilized mobilized mobilized by Japan Japa I It is not possible that the art of Whistler and Bastier Bastion Lepage is to tobe tobe tobe be lost in in a flurry ry of storks around the peak of f that the Greek slave and the Bacchante are to give place to dragon grotesqueries grotesqueries grotesqueries gro- gro in bronze and ivory that Buddhism is to supplant Christianity and that Shakespeare and Erasmus are aie to become as mute as ab those who spoke and sang beneath the pillared majesty of May not the success of of Japan mean the realization of Macaulay's immortal picture of desolation when some traveler from froni New Zealand shall in the midst of a n avast vast solitude take his bis stand on a broken arch of London bridge to sketch the ruins of St. St Paul Paull i |