The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-04
JAPAN ANGRY OVER
HAWAIIAN INCIDENT
Alleged Outrage by Custom Of
ficers Fiecely Resented.
NEW CHINESE CAPITAL
COURT AVOIDS PEKIN WHILE
THE FOREIGNERS REMAIN.

Yokohama, Aug. 21-(Via Victoria,
B. c, Sept 3)-To say that a hornets
nest has been stirred up in Japan
would but mildly express the news of
the alleged outrageous treatment of ia
panese ladies on the Nippon Maru by
the quarantine officers of Hawaii
Nothing in the course OF all the rela-
tionS between America and Japan has
aroused so much press indignation or
such strong popular feeling.
Whatever else this nation may be- It
is an eminently self-respecting nation.
and the encomiums recently passed
upon it by western peoples have accen-
( tuated the feeling to an extraordinary
degree The lately expressed contrasts
between the moral conditions of the
west and the east have also received a
strong dllip because of the occurrence
which viii make the task of western
missionaries and moralists harder than
ever. In fact. the influence of Occi-
dental morality has. because of it,
reached a very low ebb. That which
cuts the deepest is the discrimination
which was made between foreign ladies
and the Japanese, and the incident thus
shows clearly what difficulties are be-
fore the American government should
this people be Disseminated against in
the framing of immigration laws. Any
such measure would also destroy the
extraordinarily friendly relations which
governments.
One of the leading Toxic papers
points out how jealously the western
powers guard their flags and their ma
tional regulations against every indig-
nifty or injustice. 1t cites the action
of England in the affairs of the ''Lor-
cha Arrow" and of Don Pacifico, and
while not insisting that Lord Palmer
Ston's procedure should be taken by
Japan as model of foreign political
methods, it does hold that Japan lacks
self-assertiveness and that she might
win larger measure of respect if she
insisted on receiving it.
May Change Chinese Capital.
The postponement Of the return of
the Chinese court to Pelxin until OctO-
Der, on account Of the prevailing heat.
Is perfectly understood here and recog-
nized as part of the programme of
delay which will ultimate either in
the retention of the present stopping
place. or the choice of some other in
terror city as the capital of the en-
pire. That the court win ever return
to Pek1n while that city is completely
under the domination of foreign troops
is not reckOned as even among the pos
sibilities.
In the meantime the growing infiu-
ence of Japan over the Chinese govern
ment is evidenced by the appointment
or Japanese officer to organize the
police force of Pekin. and by the &C
ceptance of the recommendation OF
Yuan Shikai that the Chinese army be
modelled upon that of Japan.
Major General F'ukushirna has start
ed for Shanghai, and it is currently re-
ported that this is preliminary to the
dispatch to that place Of a battalion OF
japanese troops, so that the nation
may range itself alongside of England
and Germany in any Developments
which may occur in the valley of the
Yangtse.
The Doshisha college of Kyoto. in
which many Americans are interested.
has been in very serious trouble ever
since the foreign management was
Withdrawn, and recently disturbances
there have eliminated in the resigna-
ton of its president. It's affairs are
rapidly going from bad TO worse.