The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-08
KOREA WILL
BE WATCHED
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riculture and the raising of cattle. There
is general atmosphere of plenty, though
there is no aff1uence. The Transsiberian
Railroad is a great enterprise. All along
the line there is an army of people who
are engaged in it's reconstruction. The
ties are being replaced by heavier ones,
and the wooden bridges give way to iron
ones all along the route. The roadbed is
the best 1 know. There Is no trouble,
in the slow train, in writing I'll the time.
The time made was about eighteen miles
and hour, and we took that train so that
we could see just what is in the country.
We were very favorably impressed with
the line, for though the rails are light,
they seemed to be heavy enough for the
traffic. The equipment is good and the
traffic is very heavy.
81 have no words to speak the full of
praises of the Japanese. The nation is
heavily in debt. There Is no Doubt but
the money which was borrowed has been
spent in the best possible way, for the
equipment of the country as to universe
ties, hospitals, and all kinds of perma-
nent improvements, is of the very high
est quality. This is an asset and needs
not to be renewed. The debt viii be paid
without serious trouble to the nation, for
the people are frugal, and though the
taxes come in copper there are many
people there and they take the burdens
of government with ease, because of
their intense loyalty.
THE Red Cross establishment of the
Japanese is the best in the world. There
could be no better establishment There
are 5000 members of the Red Cross, the
hospitals are of the very best, and the
attendance above the average in every
way. The Japanese professionally are
where they were, in the very front rank
of the people who investigate and keep
up in everything they undertake. They
have a great army and are very proud
of 1t, and they are doing what they can
to keep it up to the highest point. The
country cannot help but go ahead, and
with the energy of the people, there is
no telling what is possible for them. 1t
is a matter of congratulatlon to them
now that the United States opened their
country to the world. They feel that it
has been the making of the people, for
they have been kept before the world,
and have made their way with the oldest
civilizations. One of the speakers at
banquet in Toxic on the occasion of the
anniversary of the landing of Commodore
Perry in Japan, referred to him as the
George Washington of Japan. 1t is such
a person, though it is one of the race,
that is needed in China.
with the ADVENT OF some one VINO
could lead the Chinese through the trou-
blouS times that are ahead of them in
their efforts to reorganize their govern
ment, there would be an opening of op-
portunities before the people which We
can hardly comprehend. Ii Hung Chang
was too much devoted to his own pocket
and there seems to be no man with the
qualities of true leadership now so that
situation is a difficult one for the people
who are working for the reorganization
of the government"
In the party with DR.. Sem are Prof.
D. r. Brewer, DR.. Jacob Frank and Dr..
Mastin of Mobile, Ala. All the others
are of Chicago. The physicians are clos
ing up a tour of the world. They went
from Chicago to New York, to Bremen,
through Germany to Russia, and thence
across to the Pacific coast. Then from
Vladivostok they went about the East
missing only the Philippines. They ex-
pect to proceed direct to Chicago from
San Francisco.