The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-07-11

manners, as General Grant.
Under these circumstances the evidence
Of man like Judge Hoar, of Massachu,
sets, should receive consideration. Prac.
tlcally outside of political struggles and
above all suspicion OF distort
ing or suppressing the truth to suit the
exigencies Of political canvass, and fully
qualified by' personal knowledge of the
President to speak with authority, Judge
Hoar declares the description of Senator
Sumner to be ridiculously wide Of accu
racy. He says:
u desire to testify that during the whole
period sat at the Cabinet Councils,
never heard any measure of administra-
ton discussed or considered except with
the single reference to the public good
and when remember the simple, direct,
aRd modest man who sat at the head of
the table there, aud take up Mr.. Summers
speech, can bit think he is talking about
some one else"
Even without this conclusive contra
uiction, the stories of General Grants en-.
emles refute one another 1t is impossi-
bic that he should be at once the dull
ignorant, Indifferent man they represent
and deep, ambitious schemer, determin.
ed to overthrow the liberties of his coun
try and subject us to military despotism
AMERICA AND JAPAN.
From the New York Tribune
1t was an American Minister in China,
succeeding Mr.. Burlingame, who held
that equal treaty relations could not be
sustained by the United States with a pa
gan nation. He argued we believe, that
no trustworthy basis of intercourse could
be established between our Republic and
the Empire Of China SO long as the latter
did not have Christian morality wrought
lntolt whole foreign and domestic policy
coloring all its formal and domestic acts
and relations This was paying higher
compliment to our own Government than
it deserves, perhaps; certainly it was es.
tablishlng harsh rule III the regulation
Of diplomatic intercourse with China and
Japan. 1t is easy to sec that such a theo-
ry as the one suggested must lead to the
adoption of a "gunboat policy" with
these nations instead Of the peaceful and
eflicacious co operation which was so ad-
mrably sustained in China by the late
British ana American Ministers-Sir Fred
erick n-nee and Mr.. Burlingame. To
hoI-ai plsCol az the mead or tho terrified
Oriental and tell him tiIa6 a--.,,,,t4 49,
railroads, steamboats,. and foreign trade,
would be to treat dim as pagan who did
not possibly understand Christian cIviliza-
ton. but it would not commend that kind
of civilization to the beathen. We tried
that style of missionary labor in Co1ea,
where Secretary Fish's representative at
tempted to force the New Testament and
California breadstufs upon the astonished
natives by the mild persuasives of Paix-
hans and howitzers To treat the pagan
party to our contracts as if he were honest
and really meant to keep his word, is
really more Christian like; in the case of
Japan it has been more successful. The
mortar boats and rude bombshells failed
to accomplish anything in Corea. An
honest, straightforward policy in Japan
has given the United States the dominant
foreign influence in that Empire.
A correspondent of the Tribune has en-
aeav0red to throw some light on the cause
of the growth of American influence IN
Japan but probably none can truly ex-
plain it, any more than any can tell us
why Japan deliberately chose to forsake
an ancient feudal isolation for liberal
with oil nations and a reor.
ganized government. But we must call
attention to this subject of our close rela
lions with Japan, because so much de-
ponds on our management of these rela-
tions. We have peacefully acquired an
in the foreign and domestic
polity of the Empire which entails great
on our Government. There
is something touching in the confidence
and trust with which the new nation of
Japan comes to the United States for aid
IN every developing interest and novel
Diplomacy, trade, education,
law, and manufactures have
each in turn sought in our country for ex-
perts who should carry the arts aud sci.
erces of our civilization to the newly
awakened people of Japan. We cannot
lfford to send thither any but the very
pest representatives of the interest which
g desired for the benefit of our new allies
We have place-hunters and incapables
enough hanging about our public service
We have no right to send any of them to
,ur friends across the Pacific
So far as we know, the experts in in.
ernatienal law, teaching, customs, coin
ge, excise, and other professions and
rades, who have been sent to Japan on
of our Government, have
,een creditable and fair representatives
But we must remember that we are prac
ically Americanizing this "pagan en-
ire" and that the henor Of our own
ountry, as we'll as much Of the prosperity
f that, depend upon our management.
apan comes to MS for instruction in the
ew civilization which we consider so
luch superior to the ancient form that
he is now forsaking. We are Offering