Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-22
SIMPLE, BUT STUNNING,
IS THE METHOD OF BISHOP GALLOWAY
In Treating the Silver Questionable Pulls His Bills of Exchange and They
 Do the Rest.

Bishop Galloway said to an Age-Herald representative yesterday that he made inquiries as to industrial and commer- ciai conditions while in Japan and China. He found that Japan bought a great deal of our cotton for it's cotton mills. and preferred American cotton to that of any other country. He thinks the de- mand will increase very rapidly. Japan now has S0O,OOO spindles, and ten years ago only had about 25, ,000. Japan also depends on this country for cotton mill machinery, as well as various other Kinds of machinery. One of the Ameri- can consuls there informed him that he had cases brought before him involvjne. from $10O,000 to $300000 This shows the large transactions conducted between the Japanese buyers and American sell CTS. These cases will hereafter be tried Tn the Japanese courts under the terms of the new treaty.
 '"The Age-Herald is a sound money pa- per, and l want to tell you something about my experience with debased cur rency,' said the bishop, nudging the re- porter with his elbow He then pulled rom his purse exchange on Hong Kong ana shanghai banks, on Japanese banks and on India banks. It was sterling ex- change, and in each instance the amount called for in English pounds sterling was paid three and four times over in silver
 Livery one or lneSe countries 1 visited was a silver country, and suffers from a depreciated currency" said the bishop T keep these bills of exchange to show my free silver friends in order to con- vince them that they are reducing this country to the same level"
 Speaking of China the bishop said that her conquest by Japan will prove bless ing in disguise. It will open her ports the commerce of the world. and give her a touch of western civilization This will prove great boon to American man. ufacturers, for it opens up large market for their wares. The superiority of Ja- pan is due to the influence of western civilization, and to the influence of Chris tianity, which is the cause of that civili- zation. The action of the so-called Chris tian nations in robbing Japan of a DOT tion of the fruits of her victory will not permanently prejudice the Japanese against Christian methods. There are now 100000 native Christians in Japan and twenty years ago there were scarcely 100. At the late conference of the Meth odist church at Foo Chow they reported 2000 additions in one year. The converts are very reverent and very courageous
 The profession of Christianity may mean the loss of family and position. All over Japan and China and India are de- caying temples. In Japan but one new temple is being erected. Shintoism is becoming shadowy. Japan is progress ing. The Mikado once punished with death any Japanese who left his country and then returned No such law is known now. Japan is not a clock run down, but is keeping time to the march of civilization. Her colleges and libra ries are intoxicating western methods. The Anglo-Saxon influence is seen ev- anywhere in the east. Sir Robert Hart, an Englishman, is at the head of the commercial department of China. Hon. John w. Foster, an American, is Ii Hung Chang's trusted adviser The bells of Japan are tongueless and are rung by being struck from without so the inner life of Japan when struck by the hammer of modern civilization, gives forth ringing sound.