Omaha daily bee., 1899-03-11
OTHER LANDS THAN Ours.

mainly built in British and German yaIus'
but their owners are far too shrewd TO de-
pend entirely on foreigners. Last year a
japanese shipbuilding company at Maya
sati launched a 6 OOo-ton steamer. The
materials for this vessel were, 1t is true,
imported, but the labor was entirely per
formed by japanese. and from putting
together a steamer TO planning and build
ing one will be an easy step Tor these
q~uick-witted and Industrious people. Nor Is
II likely that Japan will continue many years
longer to depend as she now does on foreign
yards for her war ships. Heretofore all
the Japanese war ships have been built
abroad. Japan has been in a great hurry TO
build up a powerful navy, one superior IN
vessels and armament TO that with which
she defeated China. The fear OF being
caught mapping by Russia has stimulated
Japan to place her orders at once without
waiting to build up at home plants capable
OF constructing battleships and heavy crui-
sers. Now that she has got a good FIRST
line" in vessels built in England, Germany
and the United States. she may not un-
naturally try her hand at constructing at
least her auxiliaries and even more power
full vessels. Japan is growing rapidly both
as a naval and mercantile power and In a
few years It will be dangerous for other
powers to try to rob her OF her conquests
as she was robbed after the Chinese war.
The new viceroy OF India, Lord Curzon,
is gaining a good deal Of credit for the tact
courage and good sense displayed in his
public addresses. He furnished an ~illustra-
ton of these qualities in the reply which
he made to the Central Mohammedan as
ISOLATION, which complained OF the manner
in which Mussulmans had been crowded
out of official life and the learned profes-
sions. The creation of a system OF Indian
public instruction on a large scale In 1893
led TO the establishment OF new tests Tor
the public service and the learned PROBES
sions. Intellectual attainments took the
place OF p~rescriptive claims and WITHIN a
single generation the Bengal Mussulinans
found themselves ousted from their heredlt-
ary employments by the quick-witted Hin
dus whom their fathers had despised. A
widespread Mussulman unrest led TO a
inquiry. 1t was found that the
decay of the Bengal Mussulmans was due,
not TO a lack Of ability or to want of in
but to the fact that their religious
and domestic obligations rendered 1t eX-
tremely difficult for them to accept the
purely secular system OF education onered
by the state. The Hindus, with their re-
ligious training at home, found no dlmculty
in accepting the purely secular teachlhg OF
the government schools, and thereby Sc
cured an enormous advantage over their
compatriots. Lord Curzon, while
sympathizing with the Mussulman position
pointed out what had been done from the
days of Lord Mayo EDWARDS TO relleVe II
and urged that the duty OF the government
was not to create exemptions or privileges
in favor of any particular race, but to ADAPT
it's educational system to the needs ana
,aa.;,,o,+g pf oil classes of its SUBJECTS.
When the matter Of the three new Ger
man army corps came up for discussion the
other day before the budget committee or
the Reichstag the Prussian war minister
General Won Gossler, bad very little diflcuitY
in securing full approval OF his plans Ihe
information which he gave must
have been of an important character, mas
much as a leading clerical deputy-Herr
Muller-announced that If the facts had
been before them when the vote Tor tne
Increase of the artillery had been taken ne
would have given it his support. He could
now only exnress the hope that the demands
Tor the artillery would be voted in the
House itself by a large majority. General
yon Gossler said that the French army mao
made real progress and was quite on the
same level as the German" One OF Ihe
deputies directed attention to the imposing
strength OF the forces which Russia main
aimed on her western frontier. Ihere were
fifteen crack Russian regiments there anu
achievements were contemplated
reference was also made TO the reorsanlza-
ion of the troops in Finland. The organ
zstion Of the new army corps was put to
he vote and carried by 20 votes 10 8, the
whole OF the committee taking part in the
liyision. The majority consisted OF all the
Conservative, national liberal, moderate
adical and clerical members Of the COM ]
nittee.
Some figures read the other day at the an
lual congress of the German Agrarian
eague in Berlin give some idea OF the size 7
nd influence Of that organization. Accord
ny TO the annual report submitted by the
ecretary the membership now amounts TO
IS, 600. OF these 81, 900 have their homes to
he west of the Elbe and 81 900 east OF that !
liver. Among them are 1853, 600 small pro-
IS, 900 proprietors of estates OF
extent and 400 great landed pro-
.,rietors. About 1000, 900 leaflets were dis
ributed at the general election for the
seichstag last summer. Two thousand
light hundred and four meetings were held |
Germany during the last twelve
months. The league has twenty-one higher
ficials and siXty-nine clerks. Its income
vas BAL, 700 marks. Inc cooperative So
iety OF the league for supplying manure.
eed, etc, had a total turnover amounting \
o sop, $50 marks. Last year a new Sec
lon Of the cooperative society for the sale
I machinery had been instituted. After 4
ONE discussion on various matters a reso- }
ltion was adopted in which the league '
congratulated itself upon the alleged re-
urn OF the government to the commercial
olicy OF the late Prince Bismarck and its
doption Of the principles which the league
ad persistently maintained. The ~resolu-
ION further declared that the league not
My expected from the government the pro-
of national industries and interests
against foreign competition, but also de-
that the producing classes OF the pop
should be protected against the in
uence at home Of dear money speculation
nd those great enterprises OF capitalists
hich menaced the existence OF the artisan
nd shopkeeper class.
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A Kafir university, industrial and re-
gious, Is to be established at Queenstown,
Outh Africa, under the auspices Of the
frican Methodist Episcopal church. In
cad Of sending missionaries to the Kafirs
America, it is proposed to train native
Missionaries at the university, The mis-
onaries so trained would have the double
OF understanding the Kafir
beech and of being able to endure Kafhr