THE YELLOW RACE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 93, 9 June 1911, Page 7

THE YELLOW RACE.

STRUGGLE FOR SUPER]GRITY. During the courss of hip. speech ;il t!ic “copping ceremony” nl Auckland, on Friday, the Chancellor (Sir Robert Stout) (iee.lt interestingly with (he •struggle for superiority amongst the nations of (he world. To-day they beheld a hitherto neglected race organisation striving for knowledge and for industrial success. Of late years the yellow race had come to the front. Fifty years ago who would have believed that the kingdom of Japan would have become a. world Power? If they recalled the ambassadors that loft the kingdom of the Rising Son and visited President Hnchanan in Washington in ISGO, and thought of the Japanese nation now, they might well say that it was one of the marvels of the last and present century. The yellow race was a strong race. It was strong in brain power, it was strong physically, and its civilisation had forced it to study industry and peace. It had had many drawbacks —hut western enlightenment was now penetrating even China, and passionately the Chinese had engaged on the quest of knowledge. Who could foretell what the next fil’tv years would si low ? In his opinion the Chinese had more brain power than the Japanese, and judging by what ho hud read recently of the doings in China, they were now beginning to organise and educate their people. It was not, in his opinion, so much a war with China and Japan that they had to fear; not a military engagement, but industrial competition. Japan was becoming the seat of great manufactures, and China might become the s;ime. .Nation was competing with nation in Europe in industrial enterprise, and wore our people to ho deemed to he mere hewers of woods, drawers of water, producers of wool and of mutton? Wore tiio higher oranches of industrial enterprise to ha closed to our youths? TTe hoped not, hut we would fail unless our youth were educated and kept physically lit.