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Show - . r ; ; . JAPAN'S PRESENT ATTITUDE. The New York Sun takes a mournful view of our relations with Japan. It anticipates a boycott of 'American wares in Japan which will renew the Chi-nese Chi-nese boycott; which will eventuate in the exclusion of Americans from Japan, China and Korea, and will . ultimately result in the capture of Hawaii and the Philippines by the "little brown men." And in the course of the article we find this sentence : "The situation is very serious. Japan is not China. Her people have grounds for their sensitiveness! sensitive-ness! Their national concept of honor is higher than ' that of any other people. Commercial considerations, considerations of property, of material welfare, considerations con-siderations even of life avail nothing against the Japanese sense of honor." Where did the Sun obtain its information! What proof can it cite that its words are true? When it - comes to commercial honor, the ordinary Jap has no possible conception of it. . So well is this understood ' that a Japanese merchant always employs a Chinaman China-man to look after his finances. If an American has an! invention that he has worked years upon and obtained patents upon at home and in Europe, let him carry samples of it to Japan and he will sell just one. Within a week or a month, according to the nature of the invention, if he remains he will gee plenty of the articles for sale, with his brand and trade mark upon them, for about what the material cost him. Then when he is drivenvout, the next thing will be the making of a worthless article to cheat their own people. When it comes to national honor, ; tt is not much better. In the guise-of peddlers,; Japa- |