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markets of the world will lead, no one can safely say. 

 Thinkers who have noted the marvelous tenacity of 

 life displayed by the so-called yellow race under the 

 most unfavorable climatic conditions, have come to 

 the improbable though perhaps not unnatural con- 

 clusion that the future belongs to them. Their ca- 

 pacity for work, their enormous numbers, their ability 

 to live on the simplest of food and consequently for 

 wages which would mean starvation to any other race, 

 their adaptive genius for making use of the inventions 

 of their Western brethren, whether warlike or indus- 

 trial, certainly seem to render them formidable an- 

 tagonists and competitors for the future. The feeling 

 between the black and the white races, also, is already 

 notorious and deep-rooted. It crops out in many lands 

 to-day where the two races come into contact; in Cen- 

 tral Africa, in South Africa, with the Belgians, English, 

 Germans, and Portuguese. Who that read of the 

 many ambushes of the white race by the yellow during 

 the recent war between Russia and Japan, when the 

 whites with still whiter faces ran wildly hither and 

 thither seeking cover, could fail to recall to mind 

 similar wholesale slaughters of blacks by whites in the 

 Dark Continent ? There was apparently the same cold- 

 blooded rounding up of the quarry as so much game, 

 the same cynical, heartless indifference, the same racial 

 contempt and forgetf ulness of the fact of human kinship. 

 In our own country, the feeling between the blacks and 

 the whites shows itself in abominable crimes, in un- 

 speakable offenses on the one hand, in savage out- 



