Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-13
lion men Is somewhat Of an army, In any
country and under any conditions.

lion men Is somewhat of an army, In any
country and under any conditions.
Japan Is man power nation. Her IN
dustrfes are man propelled. She looks not
to the ingenuity OF an inventive mind, and
her supremacy, whether II be commercial.
economical political, is due to human.
as contradistinguished from mechanical.
power. Go upon her streets and you find
every conceivable sort of vehicle. either
pushed or pulled by man. A dray goes by
laden with boxes and barrels on their way
to the warehouse. The motive power Is a
man, attired In cheap trunks and frayed
jacket. A handsomely appointed jinriksha
comes hurrying down another street carry
ing two fair daughters of Japan. The mo-
tive power is man in silken hose and be-
tasseled garments.
Go into her harbors and watch the great
trans-Pacifc liners being loaded with coal
for their trip to America or SueZ. How is
the coal lifted from the barges to the port
hole, forty feet above? By machinery?
MOI BY meE-men who stand side by side
upon an inclined gangway, each one pass
ing on to the one above him a small basket
of coal weighing from twenty to thirty
pounds. From the mine to the furnace
Japanese coal does not come in contact
with a single piece of machinery
Human Piledrivers.
Go over near the shore and watch the
progress of a piledrver, busy constructing
foundations for wharf. How is the heavy
weight lifted high in the air before 1t is
released to pound the unoffending pile fur
Their down into the earth? BY machinery
Mol This is a human piledriver. Men,
fifty of them, each Juggling away at tho
end of their individual rope-ths Is
the power. 1t is men, men every
where; men who are selfreliant and con-
hdent; men who are accustomed to
strenuous IL provincial life; men who can
well be trusted to guide to a successful
destiny the affairs of this tiny island en-
pire.
Another. and perhaps the greatest OF
Japans national assets Is the fact that
her people are Itching for war" Their
greatest pride is in their prowess. Ia
recent trip to the islands | was constant
ly reminded by the officials of the various
towns through which / passed that this
or that or the other thing had been cap
tured by the Japan soldier In the Japan
China war" l well remember one old liv
eryman who carried me eight miles out
Of my way on a ten-mile drive just to show
me an old iron and antiQuated cannon
which the Japan soldier had captured
in the Japan-China war" The story or
the part played by Japan in the taking
of Picking, when the troops of the world
were in open competition, has been told
and retold, and its chara cters are en-
shrined in each and every one of these
forty-two million hearts. The spirit of
war is dominant. Russia is looked upon
as a mighty wolf, proving. snarling and
encroaching, ever ready to spring upon It's
victim and stain its teeth with the life
blood OF Japan. The impending conflict Is
not to be thought lightly Of When The
forces of these two great powers clash
it will be battle of the giants, whose
cannonading will echo and re-echo TO the
remotest corners of the earth.
We look back upon those two trees
planted by General and Mrs. Grant in the
park at Nagasaki. Who shall say which
of these two trees is emblemauc of the
future of Japan?