Japan's population is no larger
because her people have continually pressed against the means of
subsistence. But given poor, empty Korea for a breeding colony and
Manchuria for a granary, and at once the Japanese begins to increase
by leaps and bounds.
Even so, he would not of himself constitute a Brown Peril. He has
not the time in which to grow and realize the dream. He is only
forty-five millions, and so fast does the economic exploitation of
the planet hurry on the planet's partition amongst the Western
peoples that, before he could attain the stature requisite to menace,
he would see the Western giants in possession of the very stuff of
his dream.
The menace to the Western world lies, not in the little brown man,
but in the four hundred millions of yellow men should the little
brown man undertake their management. The Chinese is not dead to new
ideas; he is an efficient worker; makes a good soldier, and is
wealthy in the essential materials of a machine age. Under a capable
management he will go far.
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