| Show I A 1 T A r a CH S 1 T S ITO Ir Q THE FRANK GRAND HIS G N VILLA CARPENTER i OLD NEAR MAN t tJ OF Z JAPAN IN J I or ron ne neT 1110 Jan 2 t hA have lust Ie IC ICI from a sprat T I with wit Ito tM the Ond Old Man of uan He Ha la I Ue Ht roll John ohn afa ft v I of empire empl end It If Ithe lie he gland Id wrt r a book Whist w the theof hu try of this tl country hI he should heN Slave bate bateM M It as Caesar d did III hl axles a tit ladle war by aying 1 alIa pen td fal A great t pin part of r I wee I is Prince Ito w was the I Ant to are U lbs fib Ito solid tJ ot of Japans n adopting the If be a would III hold bold holda a place 0 the tho nata oK of the world A a boy be fought fout nt the Bh aim nil gua la In older to put pat the emperor In paw aged when the new government WI In 1 1111 he was one ot of the be 1111 vi tics ur tar of ance and pUblic works At U thus he was A only 37 r yeara till of age Two years later 1 h ha w war ant to the th V tate to In study our financial I which h he h here and nd at the tha egv lit ut MI 1 h he wes abroad as a eno envoy to 10 arrange b the be European powers Ower OwerA A little auk Inter w we find him In Europe Eu at y log the tle of If the prin and nd after that back In writing the which now Japan In one oae of If the Ih rooms NOma of the villa where bere I visited ted him today that Pt great paper r w al end and as I talked with tho prince I could baldly realize that the nw new Japan lapan with us Sta wonderful of It anti and Lulu Ilk It parliament elected by the people and the machinery of It its govern which I Is one ot of the best t ta In tile the world IM w was largely Iy formed b by him now moo moN than a quarter of a century ago 0 ITO BEFORE THE MAST KAiT Ito Ita began hue bUo life young Oan H Hw He w wee only za 2 when after trying la in vain to drive the foreign gunboat out of Yokohama h he slipped away one dark night lIt and got am a ship fur Shanghai having to visit the western world and nd 1 spy out the ot of the tho barbarians who then Ihen threatened the V very ot of III hi country He and Marquis flUte Inouye took look on an another n other at t and nd by U It made their way y around ronnell the Cape of Good GoodHope Rope Hope to Europe They had arr arranged I II far I money monel beforehand bat In some someway wa way th there was a a Tb be captain of the ship did not realise that he had two Iwo young nobl noble going off Oft on a tour of 01 atken He treated them as sailors no and made them work during a groat 1 part ot of their po pause The two bore boye knew no EnIt and when they were dumped out on the streets of London Landon the they were wre al t a loss Iou w where to go 10 They y had letter lit e on Jardine JardiM R Co a at great t trading arm which II still h ha I Its branches branch an all over China but I that had only R dollar In cash aad they bet t before the they hd had PH many blocks I referred to this story MY durin 11 m my talk with the tha prime this 1 anti and be e told lold me It was a true OM ate He said that had bad picked rap 11 a loaf of bread from a bakers and had laid this their coin down expecting that till the man would give alve them some acm change To surprise the baker threw the coin into the tm till and nd motioned to them to tolie lie a They Tiley could not II spank Mk I I and the they had to submit Then They soon hair wy way tu iu Jardine on A OD Ca au and there found tile the mone money w for them a they had expected Their prince had bad forwarded a credit of hint and d from that tl time all on the they hall had plenty A 0 Or TilE THE NE NEW JAPAN APAN conc Ito said aid that be ud and Marquis were ere at al the wonders of oar and nd that they had not wean llaMa in three month before 1 that Japan must InuI tHo be thor Ihor IhorI thoroughly I reorganised and educated along alons modern II lines before fore It Il could hope to tn compete with the tubes bout about them That conclusion of these theN two Japa bel boy marks the real beginning of the new w The prince told mie me today how bow the they came canle back around the cups Cape In another sidling vessel and nd how when filled with the Importance of their mission they reached lied Yokohama they did not Ian dare land for tear 1 or of their own countrymen there who had no faith In their dories and how they had bad to be tal taken In a foreign gunboat back k to their horn home where the Prince of ruled Even then they narrowly e escaped with Ib their lives because some of their I r h hews IhY lh y WI f end and that Ih the stories they Ih told shunt the Ihl greatness of nf our lur wn Nets ral falee hood hails and It wa was snore UM time before they could persuade th Ih prime to aid aidIn aidin In the inauguration of the nw new m ment At that tine Ito wu was of Jut jual the a age of our lacys hy who will III graduate from college Ihl this year y He was wa hare I ly n 22 and since then his hi whole boll life hp has been up In the New Hew Japan H He came with 11 the Ibe emperor to and dec then he De has ha been n hie right ht hand TIll There I Is no man more to the emperor and no one with 1 th whom III hie advises a muck from fI In day to dy day Purse Ito has haa been ti r tines u pt inter and during till the war with China h he 11 was at tb the heed hoad tit of the ill In the Russian Will war a I wear w the lie rh chief power Ow behind the Ule throat an It I is hI he hII I 0 lod today who II directing the lot for forI elan pal policy or of this country I r i met Ho when I 1 w was her he In InINi 1 INi At that limn he ph me an tn In Ini i In which I he the thC war wu with China t I met him again In In InI I HN when Ut the troll troubles were ero already I beginning which lIto brou brought abolt the Will war with Russia Ru and now no at t the ago of lt I 1 find him hale alu and nd hearty throwing hs hi whole strength into Inlo the buff ling up of tilt the empire ant and la In the Ing I on a modern ba basis the land and nd Ute the people of Ko Korea AT HOME HOKr WITH I ITO Before I 1 give f you ou out DIN conversation which c covered a wide Ide ran tn e both per I mans and nd political J 1 would like to de the thC of our feet t tIn In log tt we 11 at I lilt his Mw villa near Amor halt way n IMI Tokio anti and Yokohama that hi his 1 by ap appointment appointment received 11 me t took look a at t the station tn II and with my human horse hone rode for more man than t two twomile mile mil on I a road shaded h with pine pin pinetree tre tree Then Thero we were ma many little shop ho n a temple or two and moms cn beautiful vII vIII I lam aln along the way the rod road we climbed a hill and entered a garden of oe many mallY acres Riled filled with flit Alae shrub her hery out ot of which looked several bronze stork and nd other works of Ja Japan Japanese pan art rt In Ih the center of this was wasa U Ii a large lare building with Ith Wills 1 of pine pin and overhanging roofs Thus was 1 PrInce villa It h had wide Id verandas running about It and the walla are re so 0 arran arranged that they slide Ud back and forth Corth permitting many of Ita Is room to b be thrown into Inlo one The building buildings s Ie mostly one tory story but It I I large that It coven an a acre or more ore A Sort ort of projection fOrms a porte w ws h hero that I was met by Mr r I Ithe the private secretary of him hUo hlIne and d led Id into a rl reception room After Afler orating there therl a moment T I w was told lold that the prince prine was Wall ready nady to re n me 01 We walked a I ked do down a lo long hell hall halland end and entered a great reat parlor which w wa carpeted and anell furnished In forel foreign style A moment later Prince ee Ito e n We shook hook hand hande and he bet 01 me to a oral t und and sat lit down at some Ema distance away wa opposite me Th There w wa warn warna a I Sofa at th the side Id between bet III eu and 4 a little later r In order to show how his b highness one tf cf my fanner interviews with him I moved to wd d tit thus sat t at t bl hie right hand almost touch In ins him a he talked During the con one Olle of the brought In two small maU aU supe of Japanese teL tea It wu was veer hot bot and aDd I noticed that hi his hIp k It without cream cram putting la In two Sum lumps of sugar ur to sweeten It There Thre w were cigar on the table and Prince Ito smoked as he talked KOREA FOR THI During the the of Korea came up and ad I asked ed Prince Prine Ito whether It was has intention to te e that country and ad whether Korea Kore w was to 10 be wiped out as an ln In nation That depends on Ko Korea herself replied tb the Japanese resident genera arat aratI I 1 should like bike to mee Korea dent det provided it independence could be ba arranged In such luch a way that we can be sure aure that It wilt will al aha s be be the friend ot of Ja Japan n situation of the country I is such that It u Ie lI ury II to our I aa and ex x es a nation that It be friendly tl to us and that thai to a extant It be controlled by US If H tho Iho could u us that that would he be hethe the cUt case and they would bold to their prom promises they might he be Independent thy they must be subordinate to Japan Jala If not 1101 they will welt be forming alliances with other end And the they would be sure ure tu to bring WI us trouble of ou one kind or another Aa 4 to Komi ft for the Koreans I 1 h hope toe that W we shall bull give IWI the a continued rev such b It may be a sort or of a dependent ent Ind oa oaf f W We want to aid alII them In d their country along tho II lines of the new lIeW cud ud that we wa are aN Its It a Wonderful Talks Talk of Iii Boyhood and aad Piu 1 the Nw New Japan Japu t I tHu I I Iii Hu Plana Piau for Yellow PerilA Spectacular Clair of tit th Sun 5 I New All Al iu a for tor i iTh I Tit Th United Sat SIM Does Do Not Vane the It 3 Capital Ca Can Make Malee i he Pa P o 1 le all as Inventors and uel A W Wit tit One OM oE f th World StaMM I I 1 I V G 1 I fr II IIi IId i d y f C e I Ii i i T f t tf t 1 j VO O es q d PRINCE ITO IN 1909 1900 I GIven by IU Ills for Tide Letter Ietter I trying to do or Oar Sot lint Me is Ie to tom tomake m make the quiet orderly and law observing We are to wipe out injustice and extortion end are n en ce courts We have d a afew few schools Ia We have built bulIt mom and d u soon em we have money moMy w we shall build more X My chIt chief trouble at present I la the lack of money It 11 takes more than good fOOd will witt to and that is I what we have tu to do In III Kor Korea How about tile the hi caw emperor of Korea KorM your b I asked eo Doer he vow stow any aar YN Tea hi lag developed mUd mach shire mN lie he w ws put 0 on UN the throne II Ba now yon about tile the and Ind bI bIm his eyes seem m to be opening ng to the t of ba his country tl The crown prince his hie brother I s a boy bo and I 1 should nut DUt be l to find 4 that he will lIl make ake a good rul ruler H He is now mow with me here In Japan end and t learning of the great t world outside Xu Karen XuAt At this point Prince Ito Ita showed in ina a photograph which ho be had recently had bad taken of himself with the Little tittle oro crown prin beside Ide him m PERIL I nat Mgt inferred to lb the greet t aw beg that tbt I le on In Aso AJda peaking of e the ww et In Persia IndY and aDd Tnt TIu ke key and the nw new movement In III China and asked his bIa h to tell leU lie what be thought Asia Ala mJ might t be W 10 yearn hence benoe He replied That I 1 will not vent venture to but the changes chance will be many How about the yellow peril Wilt the yellow race with their many mil mu millton lion organize and combine to 16 the white ores Tb said J Ito is the lice most moat spectacular chimera that tau has ever been brought forth b by the d ds aeed Imagination of Ute tics I bUYe tIM they It the jov journal In your country The I idea lx absurd what bat t there be such a Take tb the ma matter w of religion wt faith which u Ie held beld to Japan and lea largely 1 In China Ie i Mt more the t When wu adopted our we proclaimed freedom for Cor all II and we e u Wow allow wary man to think and beUt believe for himself You au never make a mUl tary tarr combination of nations or 01 fight a war on any an such ucb basis baaI We could not nu combine against 11 you on the ground of u I Then there a is the muster of color We may not DOt WIle like a man maG for tor his bIa com pluton ph but do d not DOt make wet war on such uch grounds Beddes o Ie not nota a national distinction We people have skins from you OIl but we have havethe the same and aDd are moving lone along the ears U lines of Intellectual life There is Ie no ground around for war NI there Lolly there le Ie tile the matter of trade That belongs to the nand neld ot of the lacket book and Is II more con connected with the tAA individual than with the nation at atI I large WU War VU not mo make e people buy your our goods end and 11 the 41 moment the of a nation find It I is to their injury to suspend their relations with other nations they will obJect 1 The west lit litand and the tbt et east era no bound together along trade lines and It I is ely lour to talk o of a oo lUot N be between tween them THE How about this which Is said to be forming between Chi Gretna and the United aiM aiMI I dont doat think ur there w a anything In It for the V very 17 r aona I have laave mar The Jb will trade with the States juat u much and aad andam am long ILl M It pA 11 them to todo todo do so WIN When It does not lIot pay their I b business will go a Besides I I I i I what muM could China hate to te an al 1 ll nl offensive and defensive Nuth I lag In II her present nt end and not notI noth lag Ina fur years Oft to tn come oom I cannot think that the would be so foolish s IW tl to think of nf a combination where It would have to give all anti and antiI receive ve lID so little JAPAN AND THE UNITED W What I le Ih the of Df Japan to tord toward ward rd the United your OUI high noes r It I is friendly and I have no doubt but bat that It wilt will continue o have bean some little boat about the tho treatment ot of our im immigrants migrants and of our ch I in the I o 0 your O slope Mat but th thy will fIt not agot a Ute the tp of er Ut two nations A As to In Japan tapan wanting to war with your that i ls ridiculous TIle There Is II no suck among our people d w we are Aft It a saran country with tit lit tittle Q tle Your country sa is gnat t in alas and its are enormous Yo You have vast stae of at the molt meet fat tile tUe soil t e riches of your mines ml are N incalculable le and d your people are many Why should J Japan melt to enter enar Into Q a truth you Besides our oar country hem al alway apon Jo you as It its beet t friend W We lute hae together for tor yearn In Inc Inthe the c In t the tamU family of nf realon and have haft never bad a dl din agreement t W We ap e your friendship of tile the peel t and we shall re 10 It whenever we c can MAN uc 11 1 i ITO Am JI far w i 1 II mm 01 concerned PrInce Ito continued I wish to tn ex express x p press toy lilY kind regard nt f for Jf your people Ad your government TIKo They 11 have been n nf f good OcI to me to III tile the pMt pest and I owe the them much mch I v voted your ago to study year system fn I ithen then spent six menthe the there and dur durIn during In ing a great t pert part of nf that hat time w was III Washington D C That Tbt wan when Qua Gen Grant WU was president and Mr secretary I tot ref th the treasury Gen Den Grant was wry 1 kind an and secy put au all the information on of your OUr department at my mf dl It was through the atad stadia that I made there that I 1 w was able to 10 formu the financial system which Japan now haa hA and to It acquire other knowl knowledge kIlO wl edge which h ham been or of benefit to me and aud I hope bope also to my country J JAPAN PAN 00 nova NOT WANT TilE Hut But how about thin talk of Japan wishing to tn acquire tb the l It is said 4 b by some of our |
