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Show JAP3' ABILITY IN COMMERCE. Japan realizes fully that In modern power ability In commerca counts as much ns ability In wir. When Baron Komura had a day oft, during the con-,m. con-,m. ferenco, ho spent it studying the cotton mills at Manchester. Fortified by her now foothold in the East by the renewal re-newal of her British treaty, Japan will bo so moderately occupied with military considerations that she can throw her full forco Into trade. Commerce, Com-merce, which has been a degrading calling on the island, will become an honorable one, the dishonesty which grow out of social degradation will diminish, and Japaneso merchants will become as honest as those ot Germany, America, England, or per- haps, even China. From Japan's ex panded power, the United States, like . other lands, will benefit, from strong nnd wholesomo competition and from what wo have learned about self-sub ordination, hygiene, manners, and other attractive subjects. In Russia's problems, and In her national development devel-opment and emancipation, this country coun-try will sympathize also, and whatever triumphs Russia achieves wo shall share. The world becomes every year a smaller unit, in which each part influences more immediately every other. Russia, llko other countries, would get the benefit of general sympathy sym-pathy more rapidly if she took somo lessons In manners from Japan. WItte's boasting after the Portsmouth J settlement, contrasted harshly with tho brilliantly Intelligent modesty of tho Japanese. Tho Russians, even more than other western nations, aro In some ways barbaric compared to cultivated Asiatics, but their future is I not less promising for that. Tho difficulties dif-ficulties which they are compelled to meet aro manifold and dark. Mr. Wltte himself, at present tho symbol of enlightenment to foreign countries, Is no believer in sweeping changes. Ho has always stood for cautious progress, pro-gress, and ho has well understood that Russian peasants care more for food and religious liberty than they do for what American, French, or English look upon as political rights. Tho Russian peasant is not nddlcted to political theorizing. A cataclysm may poslbly come to Russia, unsurpassed unsur-passed since 1789, but in greater prob-ability prob-ability that vast country, Influenced by the world, will pick her way cau-tiously cau-tiously through explosive dangers, and reach unity and calm with almost as little commotion as is attended the cementing of tho Gorman people. |