“NO YELLOW PERIL.”

Gisborne Times, 16 December 1911, Page 3

“NO YELLOW PERIL.”

nil-: kasteux races too old. There is no yelk w peril, according to Dr. Kumm. "The Yelf-w Peril.” lie toys, "is really ;i yellow bogey. Old races can never become a permanent- danger lo races which are in the full strength of their manhood; and the people of the Far East have all the marks of old age. It is quite possible that the Anglo-Saxon civilisation now appn printed by Japan is nothing but a foreign new cloak donned by an ancient, personage, and that, it will not impart to that personage the qualities of modem civilisation.” "Then what about the success of Japan in the. war against Russia? ! "I believe Russia was beaten, not by Japan, but by her own internal troubles.” "And the new movement in China?” queried the interviewer. "It is simply a sign of old age,” replied Dr. Kumm, conclusively. “If Great Britain went out of Egypt to-mor-row. the Egyptians would fight each other, and become a prey to any outsider. I do not wish to deny that Japan. China, and India will in, the future have their share in the world’s work, and will perhaps produce groat scientists, men of letters and arts. All that I wish to assert is that they will not oust the Anglo-Saxon race from the position it occupies to-day. ’ "You believe, thou, than the chief peril will be, not from the yellow man, but from the black man ?” “There need not necessarily bo any trouble at all from the black men," said Dr- Kumm. “They are children to-day. They differ in that respect from the Orientals. They nvo easily hxl. thoughtless, and improvident, but they are straightforward. It is the custom on the part of some people in those days to look upon the negro as an animal and a beast, nad nothing else ; but there is another side to these questions.”