The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-01-05
patriotic nor warlike. Their only idea was
to raise money to buy the Japanese Off
FEAR OF REVOLUTIONS.

"a curious thing is that Japan went into
this war o prevent a revolution at home,
and now the Chinese are afraid that their
defeat in war will cause revolution there.
To put the thing in another way, Japan
was on the edge of rebellion and civil war.
If she had been beaten in this war the Gov
eminent would have been overthrow. 1t
is too progressive to suit the people, who
have found that progress means high taxes.
Now that the Chinese are beaten, the peo-
pie are ready to overthrow their rulers.
who are foreigners, for the rulers of China
are Tartars. 1t will be blessed thing for
the world if they are overt brown, for their
highest achievement as rulers has been to
reduce corruption to a science. The worst
things a Republican orator has ever said
about Tammany Hall would be an angelic
compliment to the truth about Chinese cor
ruption. Every official has both hands in
the treasury. Every of1cial is robbing the
Emperor, and he knows it SO we'll that if
the japanese should demand an indemnity
of $3.50, 00o, 900 the Emperor will simply tell
the officials to fork over that sum. and they
will nave to do it.
THE WAR REALLY OVER.
81 think the war is over 1t as been a
war on one side. The Japanese have done
all the fighting. and the Chinese seem to
have awakened only at the last minute,
when they made u pretty manly stand at
Port Arthur. The Japs may go on TO Pekin
for the sake of getting all the glory which
may come from such move, but if have
correctly read the statements of the Japa-
nese people, they will be satisfied with a
good, large war indemnity and quick re-
turn of peace. From the Lords down to
the peasants, everybody in Japan has
Clipped in money for the war fund. They
have been expecting to suffer hard times
for the next ten or fifteen years, and, now
that there is pr respect of closing the war
and making money out of it, l think they
will prefer that plan. The are very like
children with a new toy, and that toy is
progress. The wanted to show the world
how thoroughly modern they were in war
as well as in peace. and their conceit will
probably be satisfied with the brilliant sue
cesses they have achieved. Europeans who
are living in japan all say that they have
got to make their piles in the next five
or ten years and get out, because the
people are becoming insutferable.
lone OF the reasons why they feared a
revolution WAS because, since Japan was
opened to Christendom, great deal of the
banking and commercial business has been
done by Chinese and English, and the con-
ceit of the Japanese is such that they can
not bear to see foreigners making money in
their country. They not only want to do
all their own business. but to go abroad
and monopolize the Japanese trade all over
the world. They can't hold candle to
in Japan employ Chinese in preference to
Japanese, and nearly all the big businesses
in Japan are manipulated BY Chinamsn.
The English and Americans find the CHI.
nese mind better trained by centuries of
development in that direction, and this is
what gals the Japanese