The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1913. THE RULING RACES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 49, 3 July 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1913. THE RULING RACES.

That the oft-repeated statements made by Japanese visitors to these southern lands, to the effect that Japan has no desire to encroach on Australasia or to interfere in any way with the doings of her white brethren and allies, and that the Yellow Peril, so far as she is concerned, is a pure myth, are seriously discounted by a remarkable article recently published in the Tokio paper “Kokumin,” which coining the word “albionocracy,” demands that it must be exterminated, not only for the sake of Japan, but of the world—even of humanity itself. “Albionocracy’’ appears to mean, the world-rule of the whites, and the “Kokumin” protests that ever “since the days of Greece and Rome they (the white men) have acted as though they wort? a people specially chosen by God.” It may very well be argued in reply that not only have the white races taken up the attitude of leadership and rule which :s now resented by the coloured men, but that they are quite justified in so doing, by the achievements of the race they have sprung from This race, the Caucasian, or Inclo-Germanic, of whom Professor Oscar Prawning says: “Wherever thev came they

either subdued or overlaid Ihe inferiot races with which they came into con-

tact, consequently tin 1 culture of the whole world is notv of an hido-Ger-rnanic character—no other race, not even that of the Semites, has I teen able in stand against them,” lias all along been characterised by intcllectual ami moral superiority, and ihe world’s progress and advancement must he largely credited to the deeds of the races so endowed. The Japanese paper complains of the religious ininlerance of the whiles, ami says lhal to exclude Ihe colored people on account of their heathenism is onlv a pretext, lor as soon as they arc converted some other reason is Found, and concludes its article by stating that “as the self-conceit of the white

nice and the self-humiliation of the colored have become a second natine with them, it is difficult to remove those drawbacks to progress, but for the bonolit of tlic world and lunnaiiitv at hirer wt' should free tliem i nun i heir manacles. Vi c niiisl not Ij ll l\ awaken the while race from its delusions, but develop the spirit of justice ;dl over the world.” That Japan, in spite of her many modern successes is not received on terms ol full equality with the white nations, is what rankles deeply, but that she can ever be seems practically impossible. There will always exist racial differences which render a elos-ei union between white and coloured quite beyond all dreams of the universal brotherhood of man. That there is danger to the white races many farseeing writers and thinkers of to-day aver. In the groat struggle, if it should unhappily come, all the white nations must stand united if victory is to he with them.