The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-07-02

roratkin as the leader of the war party
in Russia, and who consider that MS
| visit TO Eastern Asia portends no good
The Kokumin wants 10 entertain very
, | different opinion. and it expresses
hope that General Kuropatkin will seize
= this opportunity TO correct the mistake.
His observations at first hand will also
help him to dispeI the false impression
prevailing in his own country as to
Japan's beIIfcose mood. Having trav-
: eIled through Manchuria and arrived in
? Japan. he will be able to perceive the
Pacific and broad-minded sentiment OF
this nation. and to understand with
what strength of purpose, with what
resolution. and with what hope Japan
seeks TO preserve the status quo and
the peace of the Far East. Thus Gen
eraI Kuropatkin's visit and the observ-
atoms he makes can scarcely fail to
have radical bearing on the settle
ment of the Manchurian problem.
The Asahi Shimbun says that Rus
sian journalists may regard the visit
of General Kuropatkin at such an
enoch as likely to open a new chapter |
in Russo-Japanese relations, out the
truth is that in Manchuria and Korea
there are many points of almost IN
evitabIe friction between Japan ana
Prussia. The Japanese people would
gladly see a different state of affairs
but to bring it about is not simple
matter like the reconciliation OF Kat
sura Cabinet and a Marquis Ito what
MARQUIS Ito did in st. Petersburg is
known and how it succeeded. General
Kuropatkin must be well aware of the i
facts. We (the AsahD share the senti-
ments of American journals in wishing
that the Russian Minister'S visit may
have great results, but we regret to
think that the conditions of the time
do not warrant such hope. Still
among the circumstances that seem to
force the two countries into COLLISION
there are doubtless some due TO errors
of conception on one side or the other
These. at any rate. the coming Of Cen
araI Kuropatkin may help to correct.
The Yomiuri Shimbun formulates the
main errors that disturb the relations
between Japan and Russia. On the
Russian side, the peace party contend a.
hat Japan has no heart to fight; that n,
,er Liaotung experience crushed her
spirit, and that there is no occasion TO
make elaborate warlike preparations
against her. The war party. on the =,
,ther hand, contend that the japanese =,
ire essentially a fighting people; that ..
{ they silently suffered the Liaotung
the Kiaochow seizure, and
he Port Arthur occupation, it was =,
,ecause their military and naval or
.aniza ton was not complete, whereas
ow they are in a much stronger state,
nd their disposition to interfere was IN
roved by their recent action in the fe
natter of Russia's negotiations with n,
nina. Both of. these views are err q,
oneous, according to the Yomiuri. The O.
apanese are not a small-spirited peo- n
lie. If the action of any foreign Power n;
n the Far East impairs their rights IT
nd interests, they are ready to rise to hs
man. But if they receive just and be
onsiderate treatment, they will be dc
thoroughly pacific and amicable. 1t is ~
luch to be desired that General ku- CO
opatkin should form clear Judgment A
n this point, for many an international .
uarrel has been precipitated by mis- n
exceptions on either side, and by the l
rror of inferring the sentiments of the
eople at large from the views of
,ction of them, General Kuropatkin
as come a long way to visit Japan. n
ct him be assured that he finds here
nation united in it's attitude towards -
lie problems of Manchuria and Korea;
t him not commit the blunder of TAX
% the views of a few for the senti- IT
ent of the many, and let him carry q
ack to his country some elements of
utual appreciation Independent of
enic beauties and convivial inter- n
,urse.
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