Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-06-25
BUsTSEsss1'l THE NEW TREArIls x. ! THE WHOLE CO., oPsA|
 S0uA1eV |
Courtesy of shOpkeepers-.x.. ods Not Expeditions En,s,, ,'''' peans or Amerlcans-rbs ~ V ia
 Exchange g Queer Place, ''''

When the new treaties ,0 \.
 aext July opening the wbol. sg aa
 to trade with foreigDsS,l nlvls { 2
 bring about sweeping 'a s,a 'a'I
 changes in the life of the '1s Ds,.I 2
 have been called "the Ya01,'a s''p4
 east" says the New fosE srEss slI
 Except in the six ports now ,.. aal
 to trade with foreign nstlol' ntS ps's
 hama. Kobe, tor Hiogo), cssl.
 gasaki. Hakodate and Niips,s assAl
 thirteen other less imDortss,
 where foreign commerce .s'' ,s <
 under severe restrictions, ths As.' ~,
 Japan Is at present closed to a.l'1
 so far as traffic with then
 eerned. Practically the wbol. :,
 interior is debarred from bps,s..
 tereourse with people of other s,s| and the result of this is. of eos total unfamiliarity on the nari <
 majority of Japanese with tbs
 customs of the rest of the world
 Now that the whole country i,,,a thrown open, however, there k den curiosity and eagerness T, part of it's inhabitants to knov
 these strangers propose to ear,, their commercial relations. snd sI 1t will be necessary, naturally IA, ! eigners to conform in some ms,1 to Japanese ways, it is more ueees| still that the Japanese be inst,n| in the more practical and less q monious business methods and nl ners of Europeans and Ane1o3 For this purpose treaty operationcI mittees are being formed in all a] of the empire to explain to the IJ nese merchants and the people gIl ally the most important points ol ference between their own and ior] ideas. For the guidance of the eigners translations of the more u| mon Japanese laws are also being pared. Many a tourist in fornaya would have been grateful ior ! piece of work if 1t had been peria3 sooner, for it would have kept ! from various unintentional oae against Japanese ideas of coFrec. havior.
 Above all things, the subjects q mikado are a polite people, polite ! a patience and persistence which q DO limit, and the best efforts Of q eigner to equal them cannot faH seem almost like rudeness in comp son. No European-and certainly American-could bow, for exampls does the Japanese gentleman meets a business friend in the sit His inclination Is a veritabla saa salaam. and it Is to be feared tdal will stare with gentle reproach sl jerky little nod which his AafTi foreign acquaintance is likely to him in return. His ceremonies quiries regarding the 'non0a health of the exalted friend ana illustrious family" are often deil It is to be feared, to be disposed 2 too briefly for Japanese notloh such things. The idea of haste a' business pure and simple, shofn 2 cial ceremonies, will come as barism to the native mind. bul bound to be manifested whereva foreigners obtain a Considerable hold in trade. Many of the Japa cities, too, will probably see sun ehanges in their appearance allsl foreign traders have become Wel tablished in them. At present mo the towns of the empire are suii wildernesses of fiimsy little Ouila scarcely better than wooden sD' picturesque, 1t Is true, but ifalL business portion is small and e0a ls in one place. but even here 'as' u hardly anything to distinguish Y, ', the rest of the city. There are v warehouses, no busy factories their whirling machinery no <, 7 traffic in the streets, no busls noise. Even in Tokyo tnis s'a. affairs is to be found. There are horse cars, which charge tue :. n' sum of 1 sen (half a cent 9 Flu1' s,, there is one electric street ,aI Other electric lines are either U l,a ess of building or in conssus'I ,. but there is much opposition v among the Japanese. ....n.,
 Our cities are very pre'.s Ia, well-educated, Americanized ...ad ,ss, in this city the other day = =, people in them think the es,s n.ts agurement. I can't help sylnps .,sat with that feeling to some ea ,,d course, the electric cars Nvs,g r.rs great convenience in many wei a,It they do seem out of harmou. ,es,l, Japanese surroundings, ana, .,.ss. iinrikisha, which everybody . as, sI, eigners as much as any 0p' '. ls ' not at all a bad vehicle U : 70, e1-It- or5 fhn pO0lleS NhS |.