| Show 1 M u M Woolen Land LandI and It Its New and Cotton Colton I I I t r I JA JAI J A p N f IN i 1 19 0 1 0 1 Without L Leis ls am 11 DaMon Beggars Idna Whose t In Pays pay Japans 16 Per I Dank Banks ore aro latch on nail N 23 Increase Cents Cent andI and of i lonn Trade Trude and the tho New eV I Ii thu h Itu An At Att I In n and ami 00 I In I II DI Doing and the Do of a nun t I I Present oft of Empire amt ond Its Wonderful Jn Japan an Is for Cor the tho struggle and now her IIer Spies The Thc Wor Willi China Are Patrolling tb the Corenn Carean and nee Its lis II GrOW Growth tl 1 S 1 cad eJi ti fp fRANK flANK G I rank Frank G 0 Cal 1 b CJ f J rI D pent renter 16 1900 nI n January Ja Jaw Osaka oaka 00 erg II an ten I 1 Ent n the t h r n M 0 I Iad pt It Ir ad progress Its 1 q of 0 f roe rn t berate belore the war warie wit Ith baJ ie that thO country IIA and strides Since Since lit then 4 a roa ds I S growing been has I II J down hill hili and It Is IsI I In rolling tho great manufacturers t oat olle of a New ew mills ot c cire globe of the Hero nt t tr tare dS 13 Are going oln up ire r k large larlO cotton lacI lac t end score u are I r Ius operating opera snore more than one last Jut and anu y r were exported t e eI d to t tr n yarn 1 of f used I o lIt at part ot of the cotton use fl A the business I that that here In the e case ot th the u e r fl mina among the powers powen f fr I n l j be turned Into one vast vas r n clothes for Cor tho ill ff r milking n II rol rout Osaka oka Is II Iloco whet sr 11 abos e modern m dern silk mills run by byI b I e s see e nw nv power powe jelu ed by water r It and below at obo ar arn arap f ap ut UI making matches by byn b h nr n s I of gross for shipment Ii to n Australia 0 us t ra I la laA In A lr hundred mires to 10 the east oost e a f have just com coin nJ a S have nosi noW nos mill and J a woo n J i ban II In cloth Ih Japanese Je for tu IU Yr 1 kl th lh thru e ee at an Nagasaki tr ru the empire t I Wf rn m It of f tI ve e n hus h I been I te h as h u iJ fl KM In Europe e or ore f l I U any e s JAPAN on are 01 In fact growing In T tit Iho They fhe are aheady a rIt a nII In bs bl of tic the orIent r the richest of tit the thet ire t rams of t the east I do not n that t they ey are wealthy In com pari I the th or the Euro eta r Cut but IhY lire are tar far ahead of any nn t d f th tr t wn sr kInd There are arc tic no noI I ii I t hate Ie not been asked tor foi foiLa La j ne during my m Ita stay In tie the coun couman and an I sec fit nJ lP unemployed ed war wages hart havo fr r m o 0 to per Ier cent and n who were lle working before that l 1 fir fat ten cents a I day arc Iro r rewn twenty fie fiet I t I t Clore than double the prices paid the lass of labor In Chinn and I rung riMing and I wa J W are steadily the art at still not more than onetA one tA 13 th sums lUlU paid our workmen they t L et ugh gh tt lu be dries to the people tt ex They lh are 50 ao high that man many of e w rs ng people are saving money r Coe are nw more than ona on a ut Jt In the ravings banks tad Id by b about depositors ai notwithstanding the people ty r Invest their savIngs In other DIG THINGS IN JAPAN Is AI to the growth of wealth among I and anil the business classes wa Cau sill more remarkable There Is end of factories banks and corn com u ua ot of various kInds whIch are II J rood good dividends me fht Nippon for SteamshIp com company pan Is paying flarIng 25 per cent and Core Is II a 11 horse railway In nh et h I is paying 35 per cent The road roada a the Ibe only one In a cIty of a million I halt ball population Its lis owners were asked to Increase their capital cj equip It electrically They re ra ant 14 saying ng they were doing very well 11 of thy they d If they could pay a percentage tae by b the tho electric aya S II IIIi Ii There Is no doubt however but buter pY er 1111 x IJ 10 seen ln have hao to make the change Tte of Japan are paying ten sea which belong to the gO goy There are now between two I if d three thousand miles of at track In Int t r empire and more have been pro At AI to banks they are to bo be found e ov eft Two and os 1 rule they ure Ian Two per r r rent nt n a month month Is not interest rate and the banks U s a rule pay Interest on deposits deposit II The Tho Theal al amount of native capital no now used n t fa foots up more than 1 the Dank ot Japan atone alone a ai i al of OOOO en or 00 I re rt banks bank do business just as our Uta do k ping their and I rf money In the same way Wll The They I 1 to t hank yu business of at any ony kind kindI 1 I f charge dari for Oil any and and i wy flir There are lore large stock ex anel In T klo and Osaka and ami the tho theOp riI Op r almond bulls and bears fiat here over oer the rise and fall Coli of rotes just err 11 our white hitI eyed Les do to la New York and ond Chicago JIO E I is In then thIr steamship lints Japanese Lt They 0 t ot which go h I tear early ear y great port They The have hae haet rive t e beget I amers which give glo them a 0 1 I V rICI to Europe vin In the ea anal a oC large to Aus anil regu teamer to nit ail Chinese Corean L ad rulers ports Orts and two tO I i which malee malce regular Jor Ii Seattle and anil San FrancIsco They to experimenting now nosy with a line to Per leru and hAve sent several of their ships to r lobUe and ond New Orleans to test teat whether er It will not pay poy them to Import our os raw cotton cotlon for tor their mills hero here In the tarn own I Iut bast year the added six vessels to ii line the six tL a tonnage of It now has hns twelve steamers which overage moro more than tons tot each Japan is II very ery anxious to see the tho NI N caragua canal will undoubted undoubtedly ly Iy have Its lis regular line to New Yet Yetas York as soon as It Is finished A At t the tho same time there are aro scores or c cother other steamships from the great c or Europe uroN and the tho United States In the lb Japanese ports every overy month The trade tad Is so 10 that nil all want the share or of the One of the Istee lIt lItIn In the tho field n ld le Is the North German whIch now has regular trot Europe to Japan and anI which Is fa said to toLe t Le be about aboul to put on a service of fine yes es gels Fels to p ply between and San Sa Francisco Today the freight between these liege ports Is congealed ton ell The Japan ese ego merchants tell me thy they cannot Iet ge their goods good and that thy the have to watt nit for tor months for the ot of theIr orders THE UNITED STATES AND AD JAPAN There Is a steady Increase going m mIn on In our trade with the Japanese I se Me American goods In all the citIes an and nearly every steamer brings over com coin menial travelers who vho have come cOllie Cor Corthe to the first tine lime to work the trade trad ht Dy the neW treaties rs can now do d business and soil poll goods In any part of o othe the empire before Defore they thoy went Into ef cf feet the they were required to 10 ho have ports tram from the government If they thoy wen outside the tret treaty ports and all of the hi business was done by Japanese mid Our drummers drummer can now take Interpreters with them and ond take theIr theli orders direct As to the foreign trade or of Japan It ti now amounts to enough to be wet well worth our It WM was more mart than Ihan lust year and of tilt till the he largest share ot of the exports went to o the United Slates We take It In fact act about of oC all 1111 the good sells to foreigners and It Is only atoll that we have hare been selling here like our share In return We bu guy more of Ler raw Ir silk than nn any nation cu au exports of this alone tooting up more than We e poy her more thin then a 11 year tor torea ten ea and nn an equal amount for silk lIk goods chile we lC buy bu n 0 million am amt and II t half dollars worth of Japanese matlog mat log We send rend I a year nr to Jacan Ja Japan pan can for tor drugs and chemicals and n II argo amount for tor curIos porcelain and ether such puch thinKs things We Ve bu buy more mOle and note more every eory year ear but It la Is only lately Intel that hat our sales kayo havo largely increased I WE VE An ARE AHEAD OF TIlE I At present we lQ are gaining more rap rapIdly Idly In the tho Japanese markets than any other tiler nation Twenty years yeats ago ogo we only ab about ut G 6 per cent of the e Imports and England fur tur over ro per ver cent Now ow wo we are supplyIng 16 15 per cent of all that Japan guys and the English have hae lost about alt their trade During DurIn the past few tew been send sendIng years ears the AmerIcans have Ing rig locomotives and railroad machIner machIne r y to Japan and amI our exports of Iron and nd steel manufactures no now amount to pore more than a year ear We e are aro having an increased trade In wheat and flour our sonic some of the Pacific Facile coast mills run almost entirely to tl supply the tho markets The Iho people are be becomIng comIng oming bread caters as wee os as rIce raters caters and In the army brend Brea has hos been lately Introduced as one or of the rations A L great deal of flour le Is used for Cor paste In a the tan fan and other manufactures ot of paper aper so that the demand for the American merican article Is sIx tines tImes as great now ow as It was ten years Cars ago TUE NEW TREATIES AND THE THEA AMERICANS A As to just how the new treaties will work ork the Am here are ed d MinIster Duck Ruck thinks they the 11 bethe be beto to the tho advantage of our trade and ond ems to have no Idea but that foreign forel n ners ers in will have bare their rights and Justice In n the Japanese courts lie He sent out 0 notice to flea American residents at atthe the time the treaties Into effect eking them to the new regu lions and complimenting the tho Japan ere rc government on Its Ita generosity In opening pening up the empire to foreigners ns as none ot et the other min tera had the foresight or courtesy courtes to todo too I do o this the act has been greatly op ap by the Japanese luck b by the wn w ay 1 has made Very cr popular here not only the he Japanese but a also o wIth the colony by his practical sense Americanism He be beeves eves In the tho United States State and la Is al always alaya ways aya doing what he can to 10 advance Its and he has hns no sympathy with any ty American who rho does docs not manifest disposition I heard beard a 0 curl the so same ous curls story the other day of his trent ment ent or of ono one of oC our who tried to go 0 back on his country countr The mug man was as originally sent ent out here os as a 0 mis b by the Christian or Campbell I I I I Ito church but so 80 demonstrated his hh u un fitness b by his hla uncharItable attitude ta t ward Japanese so manners and duster that he was forced to resign He remained In Japan other means of making 1 a living het here nn and was aI regarded as one of the mn me bets bers of the colony No Now It ItIs Is the custom of the Americans of Japan to unite together and give I sail kind of n a celebration on the Fourth 01 when this Ihla than was for tor his portion of the contribution la lall year ear he be drew himself up and I hoe have nothing to give IrIC You uk ask b fer the mane money from me Ine as S a citizen of 11 United States Slates I do not claim citizen ship there thore My Iy citizenship Is In liea beav beaven en enThIs ThIs was before the new neIT treaties had ha gone Into Inlo effect anti It vas only D a tew fe days after the occurrence that thal the me man wanted n a passport of Minister Duck In I order that he mIght go Into the cooler coati regions of the interior When lie he Ire vented himself nt at the legation hOw ho hoever ever Mr Ir hock told him that he could caul only apply for tor passports far tor of t the United States Slates and amI as he had bad di de tiled having any such b he would respectfully advIse him to appl for tor n through the powers ot t the locality In which he said bl hla citizenship existed The result we that the ox r rhome at home At the same Mme time line our nur minister I le a strong friend of lie active sad Is all that he md and consistently can to further their het work fork her hore JAPAN AND Colonel puck Duck tells tell me that Ute the Jap Japan an anew are anxious that Amerlean Cap eap should hould come hero and leak ore oer the ground wIth a 0 view to with wilt th m In building factories to It the gnat Ireat market ot China ns as soon loon al a that empire Is open opened d up b by the powers They believe bellee that such luch a e would he Immen Immensely b and sat that the cheap labor and I skill kill of the Japanese would enable good to be made here more mor cheaply than Ihan In Inthe it the Untied United Slates StR tH The proxImIty ot o lapan to 10 China Chinn and the knowledge knowledg which the Japanese JIl have of ChIne Chines tul aster II their ability to deal with then them the ownership of at this fU as the LaM ba of if operations opera lions the they claim Le be ver er Important factors In the problem One On such combination II hoe alread bees nude made and Il I Is that many oth rr will follow There Iw II no doubt but that the Tap Jap these will work for tor their share phare of at the thi trade They must mut do so 80 In or order orlet let der to keep their people employed I The ha lave now In the neighborhood of OI del people scattered over oer nAul nearly tour fou housand Islands which aU all told hays on m area not much greater than Cantor da Of this area not more than one can be cultivated I an and the will have to rel rely on the outside markets tor or their support The population Is h and It will soon hI he 1 a ques queR queston ton where to find work tor the surplus JAPAN A AND D RUSSIA In this conn connection comes up the trained relations which are said ald to ex cx 1st et between the Japanese and nud the Bus Rus Finns Tana The people here are very bitter and nd the they feel Ceel that they will have hae to fight Russia sooner or later Ian of hem would like to tee see war 11 declared no row before Lefore the Ihl railroad railroads Is s finished and while J France has her het hand full tull with lIh the th ex cx at Paris There Ii is no telling hat thal war ma may not come between now ond nd nest summer and many man believe bellee hat the Japanese ore are not only og for It but that the they will force It attire than lion let lei Russia go on ns as she Is t nul vu doIng TIlE RUSSIANS IN PEKIN I have havo met within the put past Ce few days everal men who have hao just returned tram rom Pekin The They all speak or of the and air ot of proprietorship whIch the Russians no now stationed there show bow The They go about as though the they ready owned the Chinese empire and they fey put theIr fingers Into everything at the government does The They Are iso ot at and are making them felt as for far south BOuth as lIanko In Inthe into the to valley One Om ot of the European diplomats who hns as Intel lately visited lIlted Pekin tells ml me the already own Sian burin and that they have hae forbidden the to ChInese to give 1111 concessions to any but ut Russians for tor mIning and there The Chinese government hM as bent warned that Manchuria be belones bengs lones to nu SM and that any On to permit others than Russians to come ime Into It will be consIdered all as an encroachment upon preserves and ad will be tr treated accordingly I Not long ng AgO nn an American attempted t to get some ins gold mInIng concessions In Maw but was told that the they could ily be secured through the Russians THE WA WANT T ALL This American traveled extensively rough and spent time me among the Russians In Manchuria He e found Coull that the tho common feeling none the Russians was WAI that all Asia AlIa as bound to come Into Inlo their hands BOoner over or later Inter and that they were Vere now eying along the road rand to that That said that thai Russia nUlMa want wanted 1 ed 1 ns a 0 bret lo ground to lc raise soldiers and |
