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Japan Is Preparing for War-
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lly, ,H. Viimakiiiu, In S.ilurilii) Tlnirt.
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and has been trying In mold, there
fnrii, I to rtrelin llic first idiock of
tho nwfikcllftiK of Clilnn nt our in
shores. Tlmt will In' ! Intimate. We
liolrl wMi Ut h Inn com In tin)
awakened (.'lilim nt sny time. An for
Hid first Hliurk nf such nnnkonlnc
.( " Japan does not jiftli to light, unreasonable rent which Hip, Hill"
Vhy, then, the iiltfcteen clHMon ot look lii-fnri .tlili famous Tientsin gate
thu.'prrsont army of Japan Instead itf Tlifcru wi'rii siiiiifi ('lilnhthi nut many
"" ' "tlm thlrfrcn"iUvlslona of the ntiEtxtrttl at Ihrtt behind the wild (idle flic
wnr ilayifi' Why tlio Inrrcaso ot nix Allies illil nOt wish, lid I they hritl (i);
dlvMlonn -wltlitn rh years? 'rest In nbnoils "unpciltK"
Thn ItHhnrlfll .IftllltfleHn nnV Imliltf . Vnitl- IMilnnmiln ta ttnl ntrtitii nf
w t liaj thlrtorn battleships II had nnly ilcrttli. China In the. (inly country .lnia" wishes to rornlu' It as fur
.' i .J J no Years o. TlniL is in saw vtimri. vnn nut n V i liinnfv ini.n nwiu- us """" "' "
the Bra strength of tho empire In- to glo no their Hvch for yoil ''1
creased moro than twleo In Iho nuhl- fee why jlill Inilkll bucIi hrnvo mil
. tor of fighting ships, and In cmchnry, Atori,'1 rtn Athenian in rWidMtil lb
vilch tt tho thing that founts, moro lmo said to it lnecdenirnlail,i Kimr
than throo times. The monster super- llto Is so wretched thai I do riot sco
Drcadnatight. Sntmima, ot 10,350 tons,' VihV ybti shtiilld nlit throw It riwrty
nrmcit. wllJlftVclvo twelve-Inch ruiui, with pleasure." A inuilcril Inlnnlil
Is nowclnally In commission. Ami tlon of this flaying may be written
In this year of grnco 1910 wo shall 'about n largo proportion of tho Chi-
mil the launching of two nioro battle- nose. TheU Oriental stoicism. Iho Tho treaty was rAUlta! at Chefil, May
nhlps or moni than 20,800 tons, nrmiil basic philosophy of life which la rom- 3, 1S0i It was ilonc. Jupnn roilld
. i.i ,r,W liwo powprfujly, llyui tho Sat- limit lit nil (hc'riist, wnuld.ni'tunillv now plant herself In South Man
j;j j I JBiifcmH '' i' ji. mIo the Chlneso soldier n ile'rlilcd tfc.;'lillfffl. And n tho eventful ilny ho
'1 ' ' 3siilin Is iioori'ho'r lieoplo are lay-, vantage oxer n prosperous llro-tAvJrik'fll lio 'd ifnil Ihoroiighly rehdy to
Irfc Himir.tiilhi.MWA ii.irtr ur- ,.,t .,i soldli'r of" thn Wi'sl, juieet (lie iMilkened Clilnn on tho bor-
their net Incomo In ono'form of In-! Mfircuvfr ,IIiit Is nun llilufc Whllli ,,Pr8 (,f J'10 ""'(ropolllan provlnre of
,,llnt nh Anr.ll. A. ,.... .... . . 1.. .. ' ...I .!...( 1.. .. -.... r....).ln. iTIllll Tllfn .llltlfltl lirflthl'd fOf lll(
lltsl (lino id ninny n weary year. She
shores,
s lu th ilnjs of the Clilie wnr
.laiuui tried tc lfnl on China, whllo
ytt, she was hclplc? stieh n blow
itS 11 woitjd bn bard for her Ui recover
from. In th Slilnionoiiekl trisity
therefore, Japan lliMel that Clilnn
shfmhl code to Japan wlmt hns he
roine (amain ns (he l.laotiiflft rmstnn
ntlon or anotlun-. They nro nut over counts a cood deal In u wnr .('ships Bl'- Then Jitpitn lircntlidl for llie
fond o( tho tax burden.
money. It Is numbers, OuHllly count-
Whythpn, this tremendous cxpen- '' "n tljtf .inmslnn iv.tr and ivlll likely nm "v", '"," 7 i .
K,Xft..lUi)ni.ilttKvaryhropimllpiiti And lu "l"" '" 'I ("Dlw foutchl. illil Iho know. That kindly mid very thought.
OJ!Wlrt'Wlt!Hll3 0 J?PBM0 ?" toushl .1 hlsthiB liw. Ml Joint nolo of tho hreefirrnlKuro-
"l ' poverty, wliy do tho pruplo or Japan ,"" " cl "attlo Holds ni tho Lino- l"'l" lowers. Itiissln. franco aid
Imktnn.Mniiim, ......'' vntic anil Mukden llmL mtirli iipimmln Ocrmniiy, h.'ld something to say to
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nil n naval
ty v"sicr-nreadnaucht" bnttlchlns? 0" W number, of, men,
To what cornor of tho earth does I And tho number China ccrtnluly
,lapan'li)ok for tho coming of a bloody has. To boiuo icnplo four hundred
Biornij jWhnt pnncr does sho have, in millions sounds Ilka n Chinese Joko
miqci.wiicn 11119 Strains ovcry cfTort In tho sobor realm of
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us. And wo iiHteiicni wo imu to
listen.' Tho Unotung peninsula wn
rctroceded.
"Ticro Is no such thing as a stnblo
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census. That j,ol B' ii y 01 .uipau, phki "-
Is whero sclcntltlc eonservnllmn mm count Aokl to tho writer ttilllo jenrs
whlo or tho mark. Tho population of "" "lnco t J""11 "m "' " tnn
thus to 'arm herself?
lAcultiHt whnniT
America, I hnvo heard Bomo pcoplo clll,m H mnro ,l""1 fo,lr hundred mil- 1'owerB 11 11ns oven neen sinning, it
,y. I lions. For tho present Chlncso cen-! wn" not ,no r'lll,t "f Japan, however.
say,
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Ilut why.Anierlcnt Ilccnusc, they Blls ls nry uiwci1 ol tlin flfil'res "rn "" n l""" lien too Kusslnn
say, Japan Is nlrcady an nlly of llroot Klven by tux galhorcrs, to whom the "icnacc took tho plnco of the Chlncso
Jlrltulnnnd Jhero Is no need ot nil. ! Government farms out tho somtiiI sec- l"'1""' ''t ' nro back again to
dltlotial iforeo .oit.'tho part of Japan l,lonM ot "l0 country. U Is ncxer to.ollr ol, nlKhlmare.
In ntA .111. r .... ...... .' f lift lll)fitnt rT Mm lit vrrnlliifnt- Irt I.a I Altil urn tin Imttrnt diki II lit it .tlltl
41IIO " IMI ftfJI OVV It. Ill t II I If If
distant fiituro; or as through il
prophet'ii glass, darkly. It Is right In
It Is human nnture to sen such figures front of our eyes tho awakening of
us small 118 one possibly can. And China.
oiiionai tfnreo ,011 'tho part of Japan!"""" '" '"" country. 11 is ncer 10 .
to copo with penrjany, or Ji'ranco In ! t,, Inlcrcst of tho tuxgnriicrcr to be-1
the Vaf Had', ami' "tho only plnUBlblo rome ,0 ImuSlnntlvo oil tho number (
Inferehco, Is Ihut tho purpose wa'ij to!01"lliu l"'oplu In lilt) own linrvcst field. '
-if ielPCUro kfi aiantarro over America
J..;.u:!L,1,i-sH9. v.n "aim Pitwing.-
WJli4rtiil!jiteiltrrl'.jai!'.vantng.i
f, biiuuiii japan ngui America;
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)JJ. jn,whnhU
'iyVmeHrn 'tis hoo'n, and Is, and
iniorA.ls getting to1!ho more
and nioro 'vcry year, tlio (JtcHt jiinl'
' tho most prolltnble customer of Janan.
-Is tbcro'ritfy Benso In"nghtlhg"und
men 1f It were possible npil oery
"body (InoivH that It's Impossible do
,, sfroylijg, tho, best market fror her
Wares? 3
.. Uut why not take Amorlc outright'
cofiquer Her and own her? That.
certainly wollld bo n crcat thlni?
lint who Is goTng to do It? ertnlnly
or nil men, tho Chlncso taTicatherer
Is most human. 'It Is, therefore, hafu
to sny tlmt China nt leant has Inn,
times tho population of Japan, lt
Americans nro too biiTy to look
around' beyond tho I'nclllo on tho
west and beyond tho Atlantic on tho
rant. Wo in Japan cannot afford to
us nny nearly four hundred nnd plgli,ty I ,,nj,,y Murli Belf-ientored luxury; wo
iiiiiVwuv 11 i siniioining 10 , gel iiavo o ,l(Mik uround. .That, perhaps,
enough., powder nnd Bhot to wlpo out J H tho reason ,why .we nco.how fnst
our nim siguiy. iiiniinmi or men China Is awakening.
utun in mi iipco noiii wiin surapnc,
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CJ CIGARETTES!
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In tho Into war thn Itnnl.inq Inul
sometlilng like ouo hundred, tliousnnd
men. And we camo out with n debt
of something like six hundred million
ten times bankrupt befurn nho could
sAwWiniianiiftfl-Q; conquer tto United' Fcn" 'T n"m" l;,IW0S0 '" J01" ""
.frlfeiVliVhoVrsoll nnThold "no -""vcred i.neestorfl. And In this I an.
JVinortevf,.. the cow-worKhlpplng nfot, ,n,""K " ''nt Iho Clumber
nice of India7 Is", held by a handful of f " "'1 '",V0 l Rncrm.(-0 ,ls
i.ngllshincn, Is 11 protty big Job oven
"Perhaps tho most striking fea
tures of llanknu," said a man Just
lionifi from a trip of Investigation
11111) llanknu s tho metropolis of Ccn
i.ni .)..... ,i.n ,,., .. j,.,..-
Sll,lSJlLlSiSta.Jf" r",;i ft U nUencair tnC l.ndred 'm',,
froii) Shanghai up tho Tangtso river)
ror a rnco of scraimy coda. H Is cr.
1 talnjy too big a contract even for tho
,' combined might of nil tho rest or tho
powers 0Tthf world,
Ilut what about tho Chlncso war ot
Dftcen years ago?
Ask nny self-respecting Chinese
I about II nnil lin will unv ni.j v,,
Wnr, moreover, means monov now- mean that I Ulo nfTalr ot I.I Ilnnir
ndnys. Ihavo good reason to bollevo Clmng? Surely three hundred mll
that tho pcoplo of Japan, especially 'Hon Chlncso knew nothing about II
throughout the progress of thnt war.
And millions or tho Chlncso .who
read nbont It looked iiioii. It "as a tiro
"nro tho gilt w.itvli chains nnd ml
ofT nneijues!" Bo, then, tho Chlncoo
hnvo como to tho point of counting
tlmo by tho second! 80, then, they
hao at last gone to tho dcxperato
limit of cutting ndrlft rrom tho tra
ditions of their century-old ancestors!
On August 30, 1308, tho now famous
Iniiwrlal edict promised thn pcoplo of
China a constitutional government nt
tho end ot nine years. And thcko
proilnclal iiSBcmhllcs nro to bo the
training schools ror thn national iib
Bomhly which Is to como nt tho end
of Bevcn years from now! Seven
) cars dear heaven! Is It possible,
Jhat within bccd years rrom now tjio
most uuclent or nil thn despotic Mntcu
In tho world, and Peking, tho most
vcnernblo or all tho capitals t.uown to
history, nro to sen a gentleman from
Iluhpel rlso In n great assembly hall,
wax eloquent, cnll tho gentleman
from Chill names, glvo and Inko bribes
nnd tako tho names or tho cagci
nnd or tho gods In vain, Just ns'lr ho
had, been tutored all his llfo in tho
ehlllzcd world ntmosihero or tho leg
Islaturo ot .Montana? It iiashes tho
! "TfliK eTciitral govcrnhicnt, urmed times as big as tho regular standing ' flights or n workadny Imagination.
'.f .' H'l .,l?.ri ,low imiyy, nnd now nrmy. army or tho United Ktntos. When .NnWtlicleis, H Is truo.
That Is what makes Japan "sit up China shall have completed her pics- Some forty years ago Wen llslntig,
nlgils;"thnt1 Is-'what Is making her cn' nrmy progrnminn sho will havo minister of tlio Tsungll-ynmen, tlio
uhako liiMicr boots'. 40J,C00 olllrcrs nnd men In tlmos ot Foreign OIlco of Clilnn, Bald: "yes,
1 l'knowAniorlcnna nro nilt to Innnli peace, nnd on a wnr rootlnir hnp nrmv Clilnn Is very Blow to inon. Hut
wheir-tlio nrmy or'Chinn.ls mention- will number 1,001,300 nlllcors unci ! once sha begins to nuo sho will do
mo tin ernmqnt, know this better
than nny ono else, Bnvo Husslu, por
haps. Our billion dollar debt, larcnlv
tho result or tho Itusstan war. would across tho jlver.'
., .'"J1 le' ,"' ''""Bet this, ovon ir wo I All Is" different now. It la gelling
V" tried o Ignoro It. ThcnT why of all moro nnd more different ovory day.
, Iho.countrloj iq tho world, should tho Thoro Is tho rub. Especially for Japan.
poicrty-strlckeu Japan tncklo Amor- At tho rloso of 108 tho new nrmy
c.i? Unless wo wished vto,, bo llckdd nf China wns 111111I0 up or right dl-
f 1 from off tKo face, t the oarth which .visions, sixteen brlnndes and thrco
f Kn rnthprjorlglnal Idcn'.for us, who regiments, based on tho Jnpaneso-
" ,,,llll Bo"niuch'or tlio preservation Oerman brlgndo nnil regimental sys-
or Btate. t , Item, nnd nuniborod Hfl.sns olllcers
, ''i'l'JlUW.1 .JXU011 .The unswof nnd men. Tills wus, nn, nil tho world
Is, Chliui. 'know, n bnro beginning of tho now
China li thoroughly nwnkoneil urmy nf China thnt Is to bo. still.
Cljlnii tjio nowt'Chlna under ono nno must udmlt that It Is about thrco,
?fi trptig H'ciitrnI govcrnhicnt, urmed times ns big as tho regular standing'
eil. Jor bomo reason they bco a til- men. Sho has already mapped out 11
niuliiljiui) vision of ' tin pan's and definite schema for tho education, ot
hideous luiAks hnd thundering drums; tho futurn Botdlers or tho emplro. To
CIiIiiomioii, jis, fighters, hoem to spoil day nil oor tho empire tho youlli or
bo with tho rapidity and momentum r
mi naIant'ho."
"And today," said Wit Ting-fang n
wurncgio nan to n Now York audi
n god Joke or tiitf American undor- the country nro nctunlly ntlendlng tho rnco m-May tt, 1908 "nnd today 'we
.....,,, ,,ii,,i uuui uiikb 01 mo iiuiui:iiii irniniug bciioois ror
Chlnoso arniyasa serious menace, youlli." China has opened four dir-
J'lV, Am'erlcluu bl-ouib to bo strongly forent grudea of schools for tlio mill-
tempted to cry "Pshaw!" at us; ho 'ary education of her pcoplo, Ilegln-
is kind biiongHuo say to us In thn nlng with thn provincial schoolx fur
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cheerful 1
most
possible: youth, Bho hat) tho central military
nnd uhovo that,
' Why, a handful if.ypu Jnps can go propitiatory Bchool
, and $y) il(i thlb, Chinutnen borora' the military ueademy nnd tho military , "ecled with telephone servleo of the
nro witnessing tho realization of hhi
words." Tiio fact Is thnt iil-fo-diito
Americans havo not tho slightest Idea
pf how rus China Is.wuklng up. Does
it- occttcv tn America that mnry gov'
ornmenlal department, oory olllclalj
yuiiieii 111 1110 cuy 01 rcKing is con-
interests
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this kindly soothing syrup and this is
" thnt It fs nil wfong.
The; Chinaman, Is n "pood fighter
jvlifcn ,io Is.fnrccd'to fight.
.1 Do you retail the? days or tho Iloxer
trouhlo? Yn.4 remember tho most
trying nt thqso trying days when the
Allied nrmles or America, or Kngland,
(lormnny, franco, and nf Japan, al
most Bnt down before iho south guto
unUcrslty - I most recent typo? Thnt every pro
Now tho grndunto from these mill, vlnclnl yaiuen nil over tho emplro Is
Inry schools may como out rovoied ,lr,w rouiieutid with the ventral gov
wlth horror-Inspiring masks mid try , eminent ortlco by lelegniph? That
lo frighten us nwny from a battlefield ' E'rls' schools, common schools and
with soul-curdling shrieks, but I "" 8()rls t technical schools nro nil
rutlicr doubt It, jocr tho Chinese emplro? That tho
And yet wo hear from tlio wostorn China which was wont to tear up tho
wise men that Japan Is about to nlly rnllH ccnuso the fiendish snorts! nnd
herself with China, that the world Is shrieks of tho "flro wugon" disturbed
on tho vorgo of seeing n stupendous lll pence of the ghosts or their ill-pan-Asian
federation which, under I'arteil ancestors, 3 now hultdiug
or Tientsin? Why did (ho allied , tho hegemony of Japan, will drlvo tho ''as, Indeed, built many' n railway
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nrmlus or nil tho lending pnu'irs or
Iho world kit down thoro und did not
move. It wus not bocnuso tlio lega
tions ut Peking did lint fend nut al
most euiry hour bulletins such ns
would delight tho heart of the most
Ken,$atp,n:il pfi.Uia i.olvlllned pivss.
There was only gno rcttspn for (hti
Tartar hordes; down thn Danube as "no by jiior own ciiKlniern, With her
nicy wcrn urlen lu tlio classic days "w" cuniini, npu mis iiiiiio.iih welt as
of Kublal Kahn' That federation Is tno ''est nnil much moro cheaply than
a union of cuts nnd dogs, of (lio und t""" "r tin l.'uropenn euglneeis could
wntor, of A und Z, compared with '"V ml"1 them?
which the consummation ot n pan-' " ls inii such things ns this that
Knrapcan federation la n baby's' inup, ro1' Japan nf her sltep und penvo of
The ory first tlilnu which Junati Is "Uni, And la It struti(;o?
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