The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-21

men n the world. as they are the rso<s
rapid. Ard whea ore realizes that this
aGlity and capacity car be obtained
there for al average Of cents day
against from 40 upward IN America ard
sHtlfnss upward IN England. IL Is lot
lard 20 see that there IL reason n what
l say believe that Japan wtfl. ere
long, Play very hos with Manchester. czsr
great English manufacturing center. and
there are American rstfes which. while
they may rot feel the syiI Effects os this
modern progression quickly. viii not feel
them less seriously sa the end.
And cotton IS only ore % the indus
trial branches % whscn Japan is des-
tfned 10 become the queen In silk grow
ing and silk making and the labor and
resources Of China which she viii deyei-
cp she Will be supreme, and In an inn
niteiy varied and infinitely numerous ,isr
Of other industries Ia which cheap labor
must se the chief element-such as match
maktng-she will rule the world
After the knight bad made these i'm
poTfsrt pre1ictioDs-anA IL tn right 70 say
mat nearly the entire English press and
most Of the important English statesmen
agree wtrh hiFYa--he went into an Analysis
or the japanese, their religion. their Gus
toms, their women. their morals their
manners. that was fascinating in the ex-
frene. IL should be stated that because
OF Sir Edwin arnoId's statement that
what we consider immortality does not sx-
fst IN japan. although In almost every
japanese city a portion OF the town Is
given over 70 the occupants 81 what .se
would call abandoned women. ne kas
been intensely criticized Of late. He ex-
planned 20 me clearly what he MEANT.
"A people must be judged" said he
by the same standards Of right ard
wrong or which they act. Judged from
the japanese point of view, and from the
point OF view OF the Japanese religion
Buddhism-Japan Is without vice. | can
perhaps make my meaning clearer when
y say that 10 me, a European, who has
studied her. Japan seems 10 be the least
immoral and the most unEuorai country
In the world 40 me her women are
pure. even though they be members OF
the class which Europeans condemn: 10
me her men are high-mindei and unset
fish"
The japanese are a noble people That
Is ever true OF nation in which the wo-
men lead. The women Of Japan are bet
ter than the men. and they are the
lions power. Like your little North
american animal. the ermine, they are
ever white. no matter how life places
them. They will not soil They are
model. modest and upright
1T Is the women who govern IN Japan,
despite the Internal laws by which they
are surrounded. They are the masters.
and they will make Japan into magnifi-
cent nation. One of the finest women in
Japan is the empress. The religion OF
the nation lives in the women. They
preserve It's piety. / shall never forget
the mornings when ! have delightedly
seen them going TO the temple laughing;
then seen them laughing. put their ba-
bies down, and then. still laughing. as
happy and innocent as the birds of hea-
ven. clap their little hands together In
order 10 let Almighty God know that
they have something TO say to Him. JGp-
anese religion Is nine-tenths mirth and
one-tenth fear. IL is the women who
keep up the marvellous family love OF
the Japanese. They care for the aged with
a tenderness Of which We can have hut
slight conception. They mourn for the
dead with a sympathetic grief and lofty
sentiment OF loss which mean the very
highest hart development. Tell me that
a Japanese women Is vile because she
does not conform TO our ideas OF moral
ity and / will laugh at you.
Are they capable of intellectual devel-
opment7' I asked.
'Of the highest" he promptly an
swered.
..Rut II Is not their brains which will
make the japanese one of the most yalu-
able of the future peoples-valuable he
cause of the elevating. humanizlng In
suence which they VIII have upon the
others II Is their omnipreScent selI-re-
spect and their homog Take
a handful OF JAPANESE from south VII
lage and another handful from a north
village and place them side by side, and
you Will not see them separated by differ
ing customs. differing Views or sectional
preiudiees Japanese are Japanese. no
matter where they are or how situated.
Their patriotism Is sublime and invaria-
bic. This is because or the universal in
stinct Of self-respect Of which have spo-
ken. This Is as lnvariahle in the meanest
eoofie as Il Is in the highest noble. what
a japanese SAYS he viii do VIII be done
according to his code OF honor as GER
tainIy as the sun VIII rise