Show 1 ORIGIN OF TIIE THE INDIANS r etue tue T origin of 0 f the american indians has furnished f urnis heda a theme for immense an amount of speculation ethnologists have indulged in all sorts of hype hypotheses ih reasonable and unreasonable upon subject and the without accepting the inspired account of their origin in contained in the book of mormon which by the way is generally discarded because it is claimed to be inspired they are as far f from rom a satisfactory conclusion as ever the last gueory we have seen ad danced upon this fruitful f rulaf ua subject is by a japanese contributor to the chicago times with the not very euphonious title 0 of denjuro Horiko sIll this writer claims for the noble red man a japanese origin and his reasons for doing so are perhaps as consistent as those advanced by the generality of writers upon the subject ile he says there are two theories aa as to how my ancestors may have peopled the prairie land of the west one is founded f on the presumption that hundreds of years ago there was no break in the causeway ot of islands which stretch from the main group of japan to the north american continent this is not mere theory I 1 think because geologists are united in the belief that the formation of the r groups of mes isles has been comparatively recent five hundred years or even 1000 is of very small account in the history of geological changes there is another method by which the ancient japanese may have reached this country I 1 refer to the ocean current which even stronger stron fer than your famous gulf stream I 1 washes the shores of the islands islands which constitute the tile dia dla nippon great japan otto of today to day this current is known to our sailors as the ilauro kuro sliwo black current its force torce astr is tremendous emen dous a and nd can be appreciated by the most inexperienced perlen perien ced traveler it I 1 is s a veritable river in the pacific ocean boiling alon ulon along summer and winter preserving pre servin perhaps for japan ja an not only its mild and equitable ely cly climate mate but for its people that wealth of ocean food which makes them so grateful to Yeb isu 11 the god of the piscatorial domain and add aad which constitutes japan the principal nish fish 11 s h producing country of the world it its not U unreasonable to suppose that the japanese sailor in ancient times while on his bis voyage from the main island to one of the outlying groups may have encountered severe sever e storms aad and have been swept along by this mighty kuro far from the familiar landmarks onward and northward or in a northwesterly course to the american coast even in our times this has happened again and acain azain in some instances japanese crafts have laid their weary bones on the iron tron bound shores of washington 1 ash ington territory or icy alaska or even farther south in oregon in some cases only the corpses of these waits walts of the sea would be fountion found foun dion lon ion the staunch little ships while in several instances after and months of a precarious struggle wit with the w wind nd god Fu Futh euthin thin ln the hardy sai sal sailors ors have survived to tell the tile strange 8 story t ory of their boyage from asia to lae kae america ri ca what is more natural t nan tian thau that 1000 years ago japanese ves bels sets t els eis were thrown away on a part of the american shorland shor tand that they peopled the arie land and mountains with a race which afterwards became the american indians it is true that physically considered there is little or no resemblance between the japanese of today to day and the indian one is a giant in stature slature as compared with the other but it must not be forgotten that the body bod dwarfs as the mind enlarges and gus zus thus the intellectual makes he heavy lares v drafts on the physical in thi this s connection I 1 refer especially to the southern japanese as those most generally known 1 to your rea readers ders in the kral cral northern or t ie rn burts of of japan however the race is considerably taller approximating perhaps the shorter tribes of indians it may be ithac ithe superior height of the american indians may be attributed to the fact that during the centuries when my ancestors settled down to learn the arts of civilization his retained the nomadic proclivities our readers will be interested Inte is this theory not because they believe the indians originated with the javanese Jan anese for they know that they did not but because the hypothesis of this writer in regard to the ocean current to which lie he alludes having carried the colonizers of this contie contlE continent ent f from roin asia to our shores agrees with our understanding as to the voyage of jared and his companions pan ions tons though without doubt they thes cantons ran landed a eded much further south than this writer imagines if scientific men who seek to know the origin and early history of the peoples who have inhabited this continent would only accept the book of mormon as a basis f from roin which to commence or upon which to build their investigations they would more readily arrive at the truth which is to be learned from the relics relies of those early peoples which still exist As it is the facts which are being developed almost dally daily by scientists engaged in the study of this subject but bu who repudiate the book of ofa otA mormon lonnon present a very strong array of collateral evidence in favor of that divine record in fact the statements contained in that book which have been so much ridiculed in the pastas past as unreasonable are nel bel ang ngone one by b 11 owe one estable shed by scientific research james crawford superintendent of carson city mint died aled at Oakland CaL yesterday |