River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1897-08-05
Japan and Hawaii.

Japan and Hawaii.
Government circles in England
are somewhat stirred up over ru-
NOR that the purpose of Japan was to
land in Hawaii large numbers of
japanese subjects as citizens instead
Of as soldiers, and after having land
ed to arm them by stealth, with
warlike object. While this would
be a very foolhardy thing for Japan
to dc, no one need be surprised in
the light of recent events, at any
course which that government may
decide to pursue. 1t is probable
that among the first things 10 be
done by the Senate upon the
assembling of Congress in regular
session in December will be the
ratification of the annexation treaty
now pending, in which case the
Japs would then have to account to
the United States authorities for
such a questionable proceeding as
the one outlined. If in the mean
time such a Course shall be followed
it seems likely that England will
resent it in some practical way that
will give her the Sandwich Islands
and thus complete for her a belt
line around the United States made
possible only by the aggressiveness
Of Japan and the perversity of a few
United States Senators who would
apparently rather give Great Britain
an advantage which this nation is
being importuned to accept.
The hard times which the farmers
of the country have had under the
Wilson tariff law have shown them
the importance of reducing their
Indebtedness as rapidly as possible.
Dispatches to the New York Sun
(Democratic) indicate that the
farmers are making prompt use of
the advance in the prices of wheat,
wool, and other products, and in
devoting the money thus received
to the clearing of their Indebtedness.
The Suns dispatches from all the
great farming regions of the West
and Northwest show that the farmers
there are reducing their indebted
ness very rapidly, and that the pros
poets are that they will still further
do so under the good prices which
they have reason to expect for their
splendid crops now being harvested.
Everything is going against the
silverites. They have been insisting
that the world could not get along
without large additions of the white
metal to the currency of the world,
and now here come the gold mines
of the world this year with their
largest production in history, while
on top of that comes the news of the
discovery of the richest gold mines
in existence in our own Alaska.
Add to this the fact that the whole
world is likely to send us gold in
exchange for our splendid crops this
year, especially because of the short
age of the crops in other countries,
and it is apparent that there is to be
no scarcity of gold and no ack of
prosperity in the United States
during the coming year.
Those prophets of evil who have
been croaking in lugubrious tones
about the mental failings of Secretary
Sherman are finding in his letter to
Ambassador Hay on the fur-seal
ques ion so vigorous a refutation OF
their absurd and indecent charges
that they should not under any
circumstances renew the falsehood
which they have been circulating
about him. Whether even such
convicting proof of the falsity OF
their assertions will be sufficient to
silence them is doubtful, since their
attacks were, of course, for a political
purpose and with view of discredit-
ing and annoying the Mckinley
administration and its Secretary OF
State.
Ex-candidate Bryan's lamentatior
that general prosperity has not yet
appearedn does not seem to apply &c