The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-07
Especial to The Herald.)

Especial to The Herald.)
OGDEN, Utah, April 6.-Marquis va
magata, marshal of Japan and his suite
arrived in Ogden this evening and
stopped over night. as two of the party
are indisposed. The marshal himself is
somewhat i'll, though his physician says
his illness is nothing more than a weak
ness due to an attack Of influenza be-
fore he left Japan.
The Herald representative secured an
interview through the aid of Union Pa
cihc Passenger Agent D. S. Taggart.
K Tsudzuki, whose card explains in
French that he is "chief secretary Of the
ambassador extraordinary for the spec
ial mission of his majesty. the emperor
of Japan" did the interpreting.
The marshal is a demonstrating man
with keen, black eyes and slightly gray
Ssh hair and moustache. He speaks no
language except Japanese.
How do you like American" asked
the reporter.
Splendid" translated the secretary.
''This is my third visit. 1 was here in
1871 You were great then Again. was
1 here in 1891; you were then much
greater and now you are greater still.
Particularly do 1 find you have advanced
in railroad building and in the develop
ment of your manufactures"
You saw the battleship Oregon-what
did you think of it?"
1T is a magnificent ship. but we have
some much like it in Japan. You pro-
duced that here.
YOU ARE A GREAT NATION.
We in Japan have hired other nations
TO build our big ships"
Shall you return from Russia this
way?'
Il hope TO return through America.
Perhaps l shall return over the north
part Of the continent over the Canadian
Pacific. am gratified at the attention
shown me in America and the kindly feel
ing shown toward Japan; but do not
deserve such attention for myself. 1t is
true 1 planned the campaign against the
Chinese in the last war, the operations
about Port Arthur and the other battles
that preceded it, but the victory was
due 30 Japan, not to any one man of
Japan"
The marshal is to officially represent
the emperor at the forthcoming cor
onation of the car of Russia. K. Tsud-
zuli, his secretary. speaks English flu
entity though educated in France and
Germany. With him The Herald repre-
sentative conversed for an hour and got
his views on a wide range of subjects
including silver and bicycles.
I'VE use silver money to a great ex-
tent" he said.
Tt tends to encourage manufacturers
TO import goods. Silver is depreciating in
value as compared with gold and our
IA
and then changes his gold for silver. He
finds he can get more yens Of silver for
his gold than he could when he sold his
goods; but he can get
JUST AS MUCH LABOR
or raw material for yen as before.
Iii Hung Chang is the only statesman
in China VINO really understands west
crn civilization. He is a great man.
You need not be afraid of Japanese
competition Our manufactures are so
small as compared with yours They are
what 1 vJuld call pigDlies. We have very
little iron in our country. If you have
good iron ore and could ship it back
cheap to our country it would be great
for both of us.
when was last here your politicians
talked about America for the Americans.
Are these politicians gone into what you
call the A. p. A society?
Il have read of that. The pope can
never rule America
1.-The marshal admires your govern
nent, but we know 1t could never -four
ish in an oriental nation. So many things
are in the orient-caste, climate, products,
traditions. all these things determine the
kind of government.
Il have been reading in your magazine
about the wonderful
RoENTGEN PHOTOGRAPH.
You Americans are adopting it; you
adopt everything. The Germans discover
the principle and you forwith apply the
science. You spread your knowledge to
the common people at once by your news
papers. In Japan it is not so. 1t is a
long time before our common people I'M
derstand new things.
1T is almost wonder that you have
not more anarchy. You have so many
Immigrants. II is he hating portion of
the population of other governments that
come 10 you.
You have bicycles here, everywhere |
bicycles. For myself 1 like horses, but |
bicycles ] have never ridden. So many
ladies use bicycles. We would think that
very indecorous in Japan. I do not ad-
mire the lady bicyclists."
The physician of the party wrote out |
prescription and stood by while it was
being compounded. His prescription was
in the metric system and he had TO have |
the various English proportions explained |
10 him.
The party leaves for the east in the
morning over the Union Pacific