New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-16


that underlying all the courtesy and superhci"i
amiability Of the natives there Is very "eep
aversion to the foreigner. 1t is part and parce'
Of that same dislike for the white races "n'','
Is to be found throughout the Orient among al
tho AsIatic races We are to-day just as nuch
"forejen deyis" in the eyes Of the near for'y
millions Of japanese we were twenty
five and thirty years ago when the great re'o-
luton which restored temporal supremacy "
the Mikado was fought to the war cry Ok Dea'h
TO the foreigners"
The white man cannot conceal MS leeH"6 Vi
superiority over his yellow brother ana hone
Of the yellow races resent this more pit'e''
than the japanese. who are more VAIN anu o
ceited than any other people in the orient n'S
insurmountable hatred Of the masses Vi INC
Japanese people for the foreigner IS lhe'itap''
bound in course OF time to take the forfh Vi '"e
modification of the new code of laws ID sehSe
Instantaneous to the white man, VINO mas
been left by his Government without any SAFE
guard or protection in the matter.
WHY Japan ADOPTED WESTERN WAYS
Popular sentiment has become an oVer"helm-
ingly powerful force in japan, to when even
the Mikado has on numerous occasions peeh
forced to yield and popular sentiment remains
as il always has been, averse to the foreigner
It must be thoroughly understood that 1t IS no
genuine voluntary movement. based on high
moral motives. that has prompted japan u,
ADOPT so many Western ways. Modern japan
may be said to have been produced py 'hiee
great causes, the first Of which has Deeh ou's'ue
pressure supported by naval power capaDie VI
enforcing compliance with reasonable susBeS-
tons" The second cause has been the tact tha'
Japanese statesmen from the beginning were
shrewd enough to perceive that the only posi-
BILE course for them TO pursue in order 10 eiildh-
cinate the country from the sem-thraldom i'm
posed upon ii by Commodore Perry ana MS
fellow pioneers in the treaties concluded forty
years ago was to adopt the weapons or the Tor
eigner and to make themselves thoroughly IA
miliar with his methods, not from choice put
from sheer necessity. The third motive when
has actuated the governing classes In Japan
has been to endow the country with a coating
| of Western civilization sufficient to constitute
an excuse for exacting supremacy over resident
aliens and to reyindicate those sovereign rights
that had been encroached upon by the early
treaties thrust upon Japan twoscore years ago
by the foreign Powers.
It is no exaggeraton to urge that if the
japanese have adopted so many Western ways It
is not because they like or admire Europeans and
I
animosity which they entertain toward them.
The Occidentalism of Japan. superficial at
the best has proved wholly inadequate to
/ counteract the hereditary characteristics and
| the racial prejudices of this most essentially
and aggressiyely Asatic OF all Oriental nations.
The japanese mind in spite OF all its Western
veneer works in an entirely different intellect
uaI groove from that of the white man, and
/ cannot see things in the same light as the lat
ter II is to this that must be ascribed in
large measure the irreconciable differences be-
tween the japanese and the foreigners, and
which are bound. time goes on, TO Intensity.
rather than to diminish the opposition and hos
tiIity existing between the two races.
observe that the Emperor of Japan has just
issued a proclamation in view of the new be-
ginning tomorrow, calling upon his people TO
act with courtesy and tact in their intercourse
with foreigners. But the recommendation con-
tanned in this ediCt is certain to be largely neu-
traliZed by the almost simultaneous public alton
| throughout the dominiOns OF the Mikado OF news
to the effect that Canada is following the exam
pie Of Australia in placing the japanese on the
same level as the Chinese ana Malays, and is
closing the country not merely to emigrants, but
even to travellers from the Land Of the Rising
Sun. Moreover the japanese have been made
thoroughly aware that in the Western States Of
this country there is a strong feeling in favor OF
analogous legislation against their admission.
| 1t is just because foreigners in Japan realize
/ that they can no longer look to their respective
governments for the protection and redress
which they formerly enjoyed that they so Bit
terly deplore the loss of their ex;ra-territoral
privileges. They built ny a trade with Japan
at the cost of much labor and money. on the
understanding that they could count upon the