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

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mainly built in British and German yards,
but their owners are far too shrewd to de-
pend entirely on foreigners. Last year a
Japanese shipbuilding company at Maya
saki launched a 6.000-ton steamer. The
for this vessel were, 1t is true,
but the labor was entirely per-
formed by japanese, and from putting
together a steamer to planning and Dullu-
ing one will be an easy step for these
and Industrious people. Nor Is
It 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 quit
abroad. Japan has been in a great hurry 10
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 q good 'hrst
line in vessels built in England, Germany
and the United States, she may not UNI
naturally try her hand at constructing at
least her auxiliaries and even more power
full vessels. Japan Is growing rapidly poth
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 when
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 PROBES
sions, The creation of a system or lnalan
public instruction on a large scale III 1919
led to the establishment OF new tests LOT
the public service and the learned proles-
clone intellectual attachments took the
Mace OF prescriptive claims and within a
single generation the Bengal Mussuimahs
found themselves ousted from their heredlt-
ary employments by the quick-wltteu fiIn-
dus whom their fathers had desplseu' "A
widespread Mussulman unrest ieu ""
searching inquiry. 1t was tound thal II
decay of the Bengal Mussulmans was due
not to a lack of ability or to want or IN
struction. but to the fact that their religious
.nd domestic obligations rendered IT eX-
trenelv difficult for them to accept lhe
nura,v secular system of education oHereu
NV the state. The Hindus, with thelr re-
lipious training at home, found no dllncui'y
in accepting the purely secular teaching u
| the government schools, and tnerepy y"
cured an enormous advantage over 'ne.'
/ Mussulman compatriots. Lord CurZon' Mhle
svmnathizing with the Mussulman POSITION
nointed out what had been done from NE
DAYS of Lord Mayo EDWARDS TO reiieVe !.
and urged that the duty OF the so'erniienI
was not to create exemptions OF pti'lleses
in favor of any particular race out ~ auap.
it's educational system to the heeus "nu
sentiments of all classes of its supJects'
When the matter of the three new uet
nan army corps came up for discussion the
otber dav before the budget committee Vi
| tho Reichstag the Prussian war minister
General Won Gossler, had very little oihlcultS
in securing full approval CT MS pans
, confidential information which ne gave mus
have been of IN important character' u"'
mucb as a leading clerical deputy-herr
Muller-announced that if the facts hau
hean before them when the vote LOT Ihe
increase of the artillery had been taken ne
would have given it his support. ne eou,u
now only express the hope that the oenah"s
for the artillery would be voteu ~ :.
House itself by a large majority. Genera.
Won cossler said that the French army had
n,ada real progress and was quite on the
some level as the German" One OF the
| SdIlt ltNCl 10 -.
d.nuties directed attention to the imposing
strength of the forces which Russia main
tanned on her western frontier. lhere were
fifteen crack Russian regiments there anu
further achievements were contemplate
Reference was also made to the reorganlza-
tion of the troops in Finland. Inc organ
;,etion of the new army corps was put to
the vote and carried by 20 votes to 8, the
whole of the committee taking part IN the
division. The majority consisted or all tht
conservative, national liberal, moaerate
radical and clerical members or the com
mittee.
Some figures read the other day at the an
nual congress of the German Agrarian
league in Berlin give some idea of the Size
and influence of that organization. Accord
ing to the annual report submitted by the
secretary the membership now amounts &c
1888. 900. OF these 81 900 have their homes &c
the west of the Elbe and 81 600 east OF ina
river. Among them are 1853, 600 small pro
p%rietors, 5000 proprietors OF estates OF
moderate extent and 400 great landed pro
%prietors. About 1000, 900 leaflets were dis
tributed at the general election for the
Reichstag last summer. TWO thousahc
eight hundred and four meetings were helc
throughout Germany during the last twelve
| months Ii 1tdsut u tNNhbJ WV ''pNN
officials and sixty-nine clerks. Its income
was Sal, 700 marks. The cooperative So
ciety of the league for supplying manure
seed, etc, had a total turnover amounting
to sop, $50 marks. Last year a new sec
ton of the cooperative society for the sale
Of machinery had been instituted. Aftei
some discussion on various matters a reso'
luton was adopted in which the league
congratulated itself upon the alleged re
turn OF the government to the commercial
policy of the late Prince Bismarck and its
adoption of the principles which the league
had perslstently maintained. The resoln'
ton further declared that the league moi
only expected from the government the pro-
lection of national industries and interests
as against foreign competition, but also de-
sired that the producing classes OF the pop
ulation should be protected against the in
fuence at home of dear money speculation
and those great enterprises of capitalists
which menaced the existence OF the artisan
and shopkeeper class.
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A Kafir university, industrial and re-
liglous, is to be established at Queenstown,
South Africa, under the auspices of the
African Methodist Episcopal church. In
stead of sending missionaries to the Kaffirs
from America, it Is proposed to train native
missionaries at the university. The mis-
sionaries so trained would have the double
advantage of understanding the Kafir
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