"The problem of the new era is the problem of the New Pacific and New Asia, and the problem of the New Pacific and New Asia is that of the struggle of the white and yellow peoples for world supremacy; the vital issue of to-day... is the Japanese programme of Asiatic Imperialism."

A year ago, when this statement was made in a lecture in London by a public-spirited resident of British Columbia, it attracted little attention; to-day everyone who has followed the course of recent events in British Columbia, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand-not to mention Californiaon the one hand, and in Japan, China, and India on the other, knows that the racial question, in which Japanese, Chinese, and Indians are all more or less concerned, is becoming acute.

A state of racial war already exists in the Pacific-the new world of politics and commerce. It is a war which may split the British Empire in two. At present it is confined to diplomatic channels; but a change in its character appears inevitable unless the statesmen in Downing Street raise their eyes from the study of the chart of the North Sea and the map of the Balkans.

The problem presented by AngloGerman relations is of vital importance; we are interested to some extent in the solution of the Balkan enigma; but these are not the only problems for British Statesmanship. If the Empire is an actuality-if we really believe in its future, its existence must not be forgotten between the holding of the too infrequent Imperial Conferences. We who live in the Mother Country are apt to be fascinated overmuch by the passing events in Europe the fortunes of Montenegro or the sickness of Turkey

-because they are happening close at hand, and we are tempted to attach an exaggerated importance to the shifting of the "Balance of Power" in Europe. A matter of infinitely greater importance is the Balance of Power in the British Empire, and the British Empire is overwhelmingly Asiatic and not European. Because we live at the Empire's governmental, financial, commercial, and social centre we are prone to forget that the Empire has a circumference. If we do not determine to see the Empire whole and keep the fears, aspirations, and needs of its every section within view, we may lose some of it. The writing is on the wall.

While Europe is preoccupied with the struggle of Slav against Teuton, and British politicians are watching the changing scenes on the European continent as though no other continent existed, incidents are occurring on the other side of the world which show unmistakably that the rivalry between the white and yellow peoples is assuming dangerous propor tions. While the Imperial Government is bound to Japan by a defensive alliance, the British peoples whose shores are washed by the Pacific Ocean are becoming increasingly dominated by the fear of the "yellow man" as well as of their fellow subjects of India. This fear, and not the growth of German naval armaments or uncertainty as to the future of the little Balkan States, is definitely and rapidly moulding the destinies of these Dominions on the other side of the world. As a straw indicates the direction of the wind, so numerous events of recent Occurrence suggest that this antiAsiatic movement will in a short time become the determinative factor in Imperial policy, and may eventually prove a root of action surpassing in

"The problem of the new era is the problem of the New Pacific and New Asia, and the problem of the New Pacific and New Asia is that of the struggle of the white and yellow peoples for world supremacy; the vital issue of to-day.. is the Japanese programme of Asiatic Imperialism."

A year ago, when this statement was made in a lecture in London by a public-spirited resident of British Columbia, it attracted little attention; to-day everyone who has followed the course of recent events in British Columbia, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand-not to mention Californiaon the one hand, and in Japan, China, and India on the other, knows that the racial question, in which Japanese, Chinese, and Indians are all more or less concerned, is becoming acute.

A state of racial war already exists in the Pacific-the new world of politics and commerce. It is a war which may split the British Empire in two. At present it is confined to diplomatic channels; but a change in its character appears inevitable unless the statesmen in Downing Street raise their eyes from the study of the chart of the North Sea and the map of the Balkans.

The problem presented by AngloGerman relations is of vital importance; we are interested to some extent in the solution of the Balkan enigma; but these are not the only problems for British Statesmanship. If the Empire is an actuality—if we really believe in its future, its existence must not be forgotten between the holding of the too infrequent Imperial Conferences. We who live in the Mother Country are apt to be fascinated overmuch by the passing events in Europe the fortunes of Montenegro or the sickness of Turkey

-because they are happening close at hand, and we are tempted to attach an exaggerated importance to the shifting of the "Balance of Power" in Europe. A matter of infinitely greater importance is the Balance of Power in the British Empire, and the British Empire is overwhelmingly Asiatic and not European. Because we live at the Empire's governmental, financial, commercial, and social centre we are prone to forget that the Empire has a circumference. If we do not determine to see the Empire whole and keep the fears, aspirations, and needs of its every section within view, we may lose some of it. The writing is on the wall.

While Europe is preoccupied with the struggle of Slav against Teuton, and British politicians are watching the changing scenes on the European continent as though no other continent existed, incidents are occurring on the other side of the world which show unmistakably that the rivalry between the white and yellow peoples is assuming dangerous propor tions. While the Imperial Government is bound to Japan by a defensive alliance, the British peoples whose shores are washed by the Pacific Ocean are becoming increasingly dominated by the fear of the "yellow man" as well as of their fellow subjects of India. This fear, and not the growth of German naval armaments or uncertainty as to the future of the little Balkan States, is definitely and rapidly moulding the destinies of these Dominions on the other side of the world. As a straw indicates the direction of the wind, so numerous events of recent Occurrence suggest that this antiAsiatic movement will in a short time become the determinative factor in Imperial policy, and may eventually prove a root of action surpassing in