Show A cinese BOYCOTT there is much that is puzzling about the chinese boycott of american made goods flays tho los angeles times it is somewhat difficult to learn just how far it has gone and therefore more EO to guess how far it may go one day the assurance comes that we need have no anxiety it is only a little wave of feeling and will soon pass the next day the news is that the tidal wave is carrying all before it and threatens to become a permanent policy of the celestials celesti als we have all read of a certain historical character one of whose many names Is the father of lies some regard him as a purely mythical personage others as a very real although not tangible entity but ghether vh ether regarded as a creation of the brain of literary genius or as a personal being one thing Is indisputable he is an asiatic an oriental ho was probably of chinese origin perhaps japanese occidentals dentals no doubt are prone to prevarication but only as a refuge when the truth might be inconvenient the orientals Orient als may be said to lie always excepting when he thinks the truth will more mislead the hearer so when the declaration comes that the chinese government Is in no way cognizant of the boycott ano cannot be sure it is true he may be pretty sure it is false the court at peking ruled by that ancient dip lomat an has a deceiving way of winking the other eye t naw one thing may be taken as clear of uncertainty that is that our exclusion laws as they are by the boned small brained and somewhat babbling wab bling gaited fellow who does politics in a small way for the sake of revenue only own pocket are at the root or near the root of this movement if that is not the prime moving cause it Is made the lever by which tha power behind the veil is applied it is also most probable that our erstwhile old friend wu ting fang who made himself so available to while minister at washington is that fellow who the button and sets the machinery in motion and there ia a good deal of excuse for the resentment ot chinese merchants against coeway these laws are made to work hardships to all the chinese who visit our it Is not sup isable thai these laws were ever in intended ao be po applied itis plain that some modifications of the application of these laws is highly in order Is ane business of the hour and the hour has but ia this the whole etory Is there no fine italian hand behind all this movement which has not yet been seen this i question does not refer to any influence the chinese government might infuse surreptitiously into the movement not in the last analysis of the problem Is there any power behind the throne at peking or underneath the work of the various tongs in china whose members ara the visible actors in the commercial drama ajio could it be japan might be and could be for what pur plse the purpose which the island kingdom in the tar east baa ever before its eyes that purpose is corn mercial supremacy in the east was it for sentimental raca considerations side rations the Mi government risked the great war with think of what it has cost in human lives and in money japans ambition Is evident in elecy step that led to the war and through the war and now appears in au negotiations for peace the dominance of japan along the whole littoral of asia from sakhalin Sak halin to formousa For mossa is the stake for which the mikado has undergone so gigantic a struggle when commodore perry opened the gates of the asland kingdom it was to open a door to the civilized world to trade there it was regarded as a great achievement it may prove e the awakening of competition for trade the occident never dreamed of the attention of japan has absen absorbed la learning the science of modern war as known tn the occident unknown in the orient the japanese have studied this science in military and naval schools n every country in europe and america but their whole attention has not been so absorbed they have studied all the arts of peace as well as those of war they have benefited by the one as greatly as by the other by the one they have overcome the vast armies of russia and doubtless now believe themselves to be masters of the situation i but that la not the desired goal the victories won in war are valueless but justi Qed if that Is the end sought now comes the struggle with all the occident in arts of peace the of ihk japs is part of their asiatic nature have fayed these tricks jn tho war they will play them nieace imperturbable of disposition polished of manner patient calm sly it never can bo known jusic what they are aiming at until they reach tho end la view wll leave no stone in their way unturned no path which leads where they ish to go by every artifice by stately stat egy by tho esq of every means they have they will seek to gain of tho entire east that chev 11 ll a great influence over china seems a thing so I 1 plain that all eyes must see it that chev will use this adian tass to their i own benefit is surely indisputable that they have anything to do with the boycotting ot american goods in china can be no more than a somewhat that it Is vague suspicion possible seems certain that there Is probability of it ought not to be looked upon as a startling proposition however ill founded or well founded this suspicion Is there will be no harm in keeping a wide open eye on japan from this time on that victories will profoundly influence the views of the people as well as of the government that they will arouse new ambitions in their minds is the only natural outcome to look for what direction this will take is what concerns the outside world the japan of last year and the japan of next year are not the same japan so far as the occidental Is concerned her part in the world is now the uppermost problem before the nations of the west japan Is going to be a very interesting factor possibly a very troublesome factor to civilization from this day on commerce will claim her attention most profoundly fo |