| Show r ON A LOW PLANE frpaario Couitacrclal Morality Said tu 110 ILlow Iar It has long been known to thoao who had dealing with the Jnpincse that commercial morality lu Japin stauds tilmobt on the Ionci pliuio iwulblo to a chillzcd people With few iictrliun oven tboio lapanow who prove iMo i-Mo and high minded in all other rutitu i tire not to tt > trusted in busiurHt truusii lion In Japan the man who fails to taVo Advantage of his neighbor fit n bar rain Is looked upon no It fool Iho explanation ex-planation of tills state of things given by Robert Young who edits n Robe pa ppr ill that merchants in Japan halt hitherto octupud the lowest rnng on tbi hoclal ladder being deemed inferior to the filters of the soil und but little Above tho parlau clasi Up to n couipurnti ely Accent period > trader waj but another lIam for trickster and tho pursuit of commcrco WM Leld to argue a lack of integrity With changed commercial condition this low standard seeing to have ro niaiucd unaltered me that tho Jnpanco trailer always thinking how ho can I1 bet the foreigner And ho will not fnlflll his engagements if bynoeloiug ho ii likely to Buffer loss Mr Young given cogent reasons for believing that the niikmlos nbjext soon will lose the foreign for-eign customers they fare gamed nuleM their code of commoicial morals Is ma terially and ipldly improved Already Japanese consul have ro ported that the countrys foreign trade in i Seriously injured by merchants who send abroad matches flat will not strike rico that is not up to aamplu find stuffs the only merit of which i chcapnosil Guild love Ixeii fonurf to introduce better methods of bu incs < hut their mo not wrought mach improemrat and tho situation canuot bo radically I ehanir > d so long an there is no pnbllo opluion to support thn application of morality to bmiium At present the or i dinuy Japanese trader line 110 con science unit unt Wtl ho acquires one thor J expected eouijutltlou of Japan in the markets of the world Is not likely 10 bo worthy of tonoui toukiacration I |
