Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1895-04-21

she selects for her family's food which paralyzes it and without killing it makes it like dead thing. Confucius was China's Iguna bird. He introduced into her veins poison which has made her comatose for many, many centuries. 1t is, in one sense, a dead thing which Japan has conquered, and it is doubtful if it will ever come to normal life. But it is a valuable corpse.
 But Japan will be from now on the great civilizing, regulating, dominat- ing power of Asia. Without disrupting China, she will let the whole world reap the advantage of her resources. She will throw down the barriers which have closed her vast possessions to trade and commerce. She will introduce such modern methods as are possible into the interior which has been abso- lutely stationary for centuries. The day when lucifer matches and mills and railroads and other results of civi- 1ization can be shut out of one of the richest and broadest countries in the world, ended with the decisive battle of the Japan-China war.
 Japan is great morally and intel 1ectually. She has her faults, but is any nation without them? Not long before last left Japan Count Ito asked me what Iwould advise him to do in order to more rapidly and importantly develop his nation. I said I would, if were you, double my navy, increase my army, educate my women and ran sack my country for iron, coal and cop perl s 5
 4These things he has done and many others. What is the result2 Japan has become one of the great facts of the universe. When people say to me that she may come to grief some day I laugh. can see her future plainly, and am sure my prophetic vision is not false, is not even exaggerated. She will be one of the world greatest na- val powers. She can build her own ships. She is building five now. She lacks iron. but she does not lack brains. She can buy iron much easier than she could buy brains, and the margin of profit which she will have to pay will be smaller. l do not consider her ship yards to be competent to build battle ships of the first class, but they can build splendid first and ssecond-class cruisers of the type of your Chicago with immense success. That is one way in which Japan will make her in- Auence felt on the world in the future as a great naval power, as the great naval power of the Pacific ocean.
 ssThen comes her importance as a commercial nation. The victory of Japan over China may well make cer- tain English and American industries tremble for the future. It means that from now on cheap Iabor-1abor which is incredibly cheap to us-wil1 be thrown into competition with high=priced la bor. Tariff duties will not protect us or you. No nation could protect itself by tariff against the attack which Japan can and will make in the near future, any more than it could protect itself by guns and forts against an in- vasion of the influenza epidemic.
 "Let your cotton growers look to their positions, Even England's Indian cotton will be hard pressed, and if the growers are in danger then the manu- lecturers are in greater danger. The capacity of the Japanese and the Chi nese for incredible detail in their work makes them the most perfect workmen in the world, as they are the most rap i'd. And when one realizes that this ability and capacity can be obtained there for an average of eight cents day against from one dollar and half upward in America and four shillings upward in England, it is not hard to see that there is reason in what I say. I believe that Japan will, ere long, play very hot with Manchester, our great English cotton manufacturing center, and there are American cities which, while they may not feel the evil effects of this modern progression quickly, will not feel them less seriously in the end.
 And cotton is only one of the in- dustrial branches of which Japan is destined to become the queen. In silk growing and silk making and the labor and resources of China which she will develop she will be supreme, and in an infinitely varied and infinitely nu- merous list of other industries in which cheap labor must be the chief element
 
 the world"
 After the knight had made these im- portant predictions-and it is right to say that nearly the entire English press and most of the important Eng fish statesmen agree with him-he went into an analysis of the Japanese, their religion, their customs, their women, their morals, their manners, thatwa fascinating in the extreme. It should be stated that, because of Sir Edwin Arnold's statement that what we consider immortality does not exist in Japan, although in almost every Japanese city portion of the town is given over to the occupation of what we would call abandoned women, he has been intensely criticised of late. He explained to me clearly what he meant.
 "A people must be judged" said he, ..by the same standards of right and wrong on which they act. Judged from the JananeSe nOint of view and