The age-herald., 1899-09-02
JAPAN IS NcT TO HELP CHINA


 there existed understanding between Japan and CzEzdnz. which tine nature or aa alliance. the reports that Japan pledged to the defense of China rather pressed what Japan would like to do than what she could actually perform The Japanese ardeutly desire to assume the headship Of the Mongolian race. to re- inxLzorate the vast carcass of the Chinese empire to develop, the latent power latter into material strength and then set limit to Russian ambition. if to force ehe czar sxtthdraw behind the sl- berian mountains That is Japans dream Will she come near to making it reality? President Schuna admires Japanese He talked SS1i tn two of their foremost statesuaen. the Marquis Count Oixuma- Their acE1ieVements within last history The people unit animated by a magnificent national consciousness and inspired with consummate national ambition Their Leaders tricksters clever politicians but grave men, fore seeing men. who arc armed with ing western cIV7IHza tion Japan has selected wit7a critical 51dErnent the perfect models in every department-her army modSIed on the German system her navy Is fashioned after England's while her edu cation is largely practical and American
 Not OtvxithS landing this success and this
 
 pam He thinks she may be tepted be- yond her resources and may put her shoulders great a financial burden in the effort to support colossal army and build up Invi ncibie Like Italy today. who under Crispi joined the triple aIlia and n1aint aimed the armament of awake to the fact that she has overreached herse1f. and in her endeavor to grasp pire has succeeded only in mpoverishing her people
 There are facts which go far toward jusi- flying this fear Japan is by nature poor islands are noun fI1ous. and there are , stretches of fertility such found in the river basins of China. Japan has great store of wealth capital and thir- ent upon agriculture Today of course she has ships upon the seas her manufactures increasing by leaps and bounds her popu1at ton has doubled. and she is sending out her coo4ies and trading all around the fringes of the Pacific. But. the other hand, she possesses mineral resources worth speaking of. her agricultural possi- blitieS are about reached. and to support her increase OF pop Pulation and her in- mense ma tionaI expenditures she trade and build up such manufactures possible to skill and not dependent vast beds of fuel and ores In other words she must seek to make her ports the ter Of ez<chanEe for the far east, must engage in ma nufacturing in which cheap labor and irnmense manual skill L. whether she can afford to pose great power and such to stand in the way of Rus sia? '" the problem is apparent They are seekisg to promote ma anufacturing and foreign commerce. The City Nagasaki Is a- ready the central port of call in the North Pacific Imports are not keeping pace with exports Besides. in her progress hitherto Japar. has never once gotten beyond ba critical examfr1a ton of fact. Is it likely that the Japa nese have lplied scientifG method to the military and questions as they have to other? Proba bIy they have exact idea of what their resources will a How them to do and also an exact estimate of just what of force will allow them to accomplish their aims in China
 In the first place they resolved to become t21e military power of the far east but to be that they must compete not against the power of Russia of Germany in Europe, but against the power of European state 1t is in China The strength of a European power in the Orient measured by the standing army home. but by the actual force it can exert the Pacific waters and on the Chinese borders That truth immensely smpIides the Japanese problem.
 Japan-s present army of 100000 men would not avail on the Rhine in the Crimea, outnunbers greatly any force that any western power could convey to tie Besides. Japan furnishes her own base. Nor will the completion of the s- berian road alter the military situation A 7.O0O- mile single -traci< uncoon- will not suffice to transport a modern At Japan Her present navy equal squadron That any combination of tine continents al Oyvers dispatch the east Besides. nsiand is her friend is by permission of England who controls the cOa1fnE stations that European men-Of-VSar float in oriental waters Nor do Sentin ental motives inspire Japan with the deteru1 inatiOn to reform China. The resen eration of China will be a thing prof f. Just ti1e care of large estate rewards the execUtOr-
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