The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-05

first opportunity. What the Chinese have
done to Europeans, the awful tortures In
ficted upon them. and the pure fiendsh
spirit evinced. is exactly the course pur-
sued by the Japanese sold:ery toward the
Chinese. The chapters of horrors re-
Gently enacted is history repeating Itself
the yellow racial instincts which differ not
as between the Chinese and the japanese
NO RELIGIOUS BELIEF.
To us civilization has essentials. or
bases, without which the term would
seem misnomer. OF these religion, COM
mercial honor, and the recognition of the
equality of the sexes, constitute a tr:un-
virate of principles which from our stand
point must be Acknowledged as indispen-
sable. From the japanese point Of view,
however, none of them is requisite for
modern development No country in the
world has less religion than Japan, and
certainly no nation presents an analo-
gous spectacle of absolute Indifference TO
any and every form Of religious belief
From the highest to the lowest it is the
rule, and Japan is the profound despair
of the missionary. no matter what his
faith Sl!ntoSm IS the so-Cnlled religion
of the land. but it is ancestor worship
borrowed from the Chinese. and so lax
and inexacting in its japanese adaptation
as TO entail no especial eXerton in any or
its observances. Buddhism, some centu-
res ngo. obtained a pretty general hold,
but the Japs easy as it was made for
them, tired of it, and it as good as died
from inaction Not long since it revived
bit. but so spasmodically and titfully that
it may be said to be necessarily dying III
the borning.
There appears to be positively no re
ugious feeling, no sense OF mora! fespoll7l-
bility or disposition to acknowledge any
higher law or agency. The Jap has no su-
perabundance OF evil or avensing spirit, so
common with the Chnaman, no 1ear Oh
having punishment visited upon him py
forces he cannot see, or no apprehension
whatsoever of suffering in a futurs STATE
for what he may do in this. 10 nm ali IS
well that ends well here. However he may
accomplish a thing, so long as he achieves
il without immediate adverse effects upon
him. is ali right The mercantile, as every
other class, is thoroughly impregnateG with
this aspect of the fitness of things. the
japanese merchants word is not as his
bond. To the contrary, where he is known
and appreciated. spot cash is his only
means of concluding purchase. Inc
average manufacturer is in the same cate
CORY and VIII fool you every time with
his fac SMILES Of somebody else,s wrap
perS enclosures or trade marks. Ii he
may be in any danger of getting within
restrictions by {. literal reproduction, he
viii purposely introduce wrong letter in
the smallest line, perhaps nvert it. that
the purchaser will think ii a Typographical
error, while al the same time sufiicing to
| prove, in an emergency through the OBJ
lection of a rival TO the appropriation, that
i: is not an exact copy.
Women. for brief time after the new
era started in. had some little show in
Japan, but soon fell back into their tradi-
tional pace OF complete serVitude 10 man.
\ woman now is as wholly nonenttty as
she ever was, and, from every indication,
is destined to so remain. The Geisha girl,
or her prototype, is the queen Of the man s
heart; his wife is the chld-raiser, the
household care-taker, neither to be seen
or heard OF in the world.
Japan may be civilized to the extent of q
modern navy and a big army, on neither OF
which England mas lost anything in fitting
| out. On the throne Japan may have, and
undoubtedly has, the most enlightened and
| progressive man the yellow race has ever
! produced, but she is still lons way from
! having reached the standard. justifying her
! being made the exponent Of the Christian
! nations of the earth in establishing the
| future OF China.
MAJOR paNCrPaRN