Arizona silver belt., 1895-08-03
THE ORIENTAL WAR.
It's Results May Prove a Mep ace
 to American Trade.
So Says Sir Edwin Arnold, Good Authority--Japnn May Make In- roads Upon English and Ameri-
 can Industries.


 Authorlty--JapRn May Make Inc
 roads Upon English and Ameri-
 can Industries.
 Japan has prophet in England who can scarcely contain himself for joy CT ov her victory; who predicts vast things for her, and who is happy at her prospect despite the fact that a part of his prediction is that through her gain England will lose heavily and the United States will be severely stricken. Yet, says the New York Advertiser, he is an Englishman born, and has been lnighted by the queen; an Englishman of ever-bubbling patriotism. Yet he loves America, took an American wife, aud is loved and respected by Ameri- cans. He is Sir Edwin Arnold, cele- brated as the author of "The Light of Asia" and many other wonderful books. and, lately, by his-shall we call it Japomana?-S Sir Edwin Arnold w ho is DO less a politician than poet, knows more about the Japan-China war than any other Englishman. Here is part of what he said;
 Japan is one of my most enthusias- tic loves. have been there twice and both visits were long and pleasant. If ] live 1 shall go again. Japan's victory is the greatest progress that the world has seen since the American colonies won their independence For un- counted centuries an impossible boundary existed between the west and the east England broke it down so that India was open; America, through l Perry, broke it down so that Japan was open Now Japan has broken it down so that China greatest conquest of them aH-is open,
 "I do not mean by that that China will now or, perhaps, ever enter into the column of progressive nations. Japan will not go far enough in her victory to uproot the present Chinese government "a government that has been handed down with few cha. ges since before the time of Christ. Japan knows too much for that She under { stands the people with whom she has ! to deal. She realizes that they have ! been infected with B virus of stupidity and barbaric conservatism from which . it ig scarcely reasonable Co hope to ever ' free them Confucius was the man ] who killed China. His philosophy of i fatalism is the sleeping draught from whose effects she may never wake. ] China is like the grub chosen by the iguna bird for her young. This bird iuircts subtle poison into the worm 1 she selects for her fauily's food. which ! paralyzes it, and without killing it 1 makes it like dead thing. Confucius was China5 igund bird. He introduced l into her veins 8 poison which has made ! her comutose foriuany, many centuries. ! lt is. in one sense, dead thing which ] Japan has conquered, aad 1t is doubtful ! if t will ever come to normal life But ! itls lsuvaluahlc corpse.
 "But Japan will be from now on the ! great civilizing, regulating, dominating power of Asia Without disrupting ! China, she will let the whole world reap the result of her resources. She will throw down the barriers which | have closed her vast possessions to trudc and commerce. She will intro ' ducc such modern methods as are pos. ! siblc iuta She interior, which has been ! absolutely stationary for centuries, i The day when Iuciier matches and mills and railroads and other results of civil l izution can be shut out of one of the richest and broadcst countrie in the world ended with the decisive battle of the japan-China war.
 "The victory of Japan over China 1 may wcll make certain English and American industries tremble for their future IL means that from now on cheap labor labor which is incredibly cheap to us-zvii be thrown into com. petition with high-prictl labor TariH duties will not protect us or you. Nc nation could protect itself by tarif against the attack which Japan car and win make in the near future, any more than 1t could protect itself by guns and forts against an invasion oi She influenza epidemic,
 Let your cotton growers look tC their positions. Even England's Indian cotton will be hard pressed, and if tn, ! growers arc in danger then the manu facturars are in greater danger, The capacity of the Japanese and the Chi ncse for incredible detail in their worl makes for them the most perfect work men in the world, as they are the mos rapid And when one realizes that thi: ability and capacity can be obtained there for an average of eight cents |; day, against from dollar and hal upwards in America and four shilling' upward in England, it is not hard [, see there is reason in what l say. I be licve that Japan will ere long play verl hot with Manchester, our great Eng fish cotton manufacturing center, anC ! there are American cities which, whil, they may not feel the evil effects O this modern progression quickly, vii not feel them less seriously in the end
 And cotton is only one of the indus trial branches of which Japan is des tined to become the queen. In sill growing and silk making and the labo and resources of China which she vii develop she will be supreme, and in al infinitely varied and infinitely numer ous list of other industries in whicl cheap labor must be the chief elemen such as matchmaking she will rul the world"