Atrocities and the Yellow Peril
“THE year 1904 promises to be a record-breaker for atrocities,” says the Northwestern Christian Advocate. In justification of this statement the Advocate then mentions two recent cases of lynching, in which negroes who had committed murder were burned at the stake, in one instance an innocent woman being burned with her husband. Very little mention of these affairs was made in the daily papers, for such occurrences do not excite the feeling now that they did a few years ago. It is quite conceivable that burning at the stake may soon come to be the usual form of punishment—and that, too, without a trial—for certain species of crime in some localities in this republic. CONCERNING the “Yellow Peril” about which much has been recently said both in this country and in Europe, the Church Standard offers the following, which presents the subject in a new light, yet one which is strongly supported by facts:— That is what Russia is fighting for, and what she hopes to gain—the conquest of China and the absolute control of the far East. Men talk of “the Yellow Peril.” They do not seem to see that it is through Russia, and through Russia only, that the yellow races might become a peril to the world at large. Give Russia control in China, and without spending one ruble of Russian money it might have at its command an additional army of a million men thoroughly drilled in all the arts of war and officered by Russians or other Europeans. With such a force in hand, Russia, half-civilized, half-savage Russia, with its ingrained despotism and hatred of the very name of liberty, would speedily be seen in her true colors as the enemy of the human race, commanding the obedience of mankind, with Vae Victis on its banners. That is the true “Yellow Peril;” not from a union of China with Japan.