The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-05-10


civilized nations is the result OF this
reform movement said the speaker
Speaking Of the agricultural develop
ment of Japan. Or. Russell said that,
like Great Britain, Japan cannot be-
come self sufficient. but must depend
upon her food supply from China, Ko-
rea and the Pacific Aslatic states.
which are her granaries. She has no
colonies to depend upon and her prefer
entail rights upon territorial extension
cannot be ignored. But where have
they to go, where have they to direct
the surplus of their population? There
are but two ways: to get a footing In
the neighboring contine Mt or to go into
colonizing beyond the seas Striking
an analogy in Englands attempt TO
gain a footing upon European shores
nearest her in France, which proved
bloody failure, DR.. Russell said the
Japanese statesman should never lose
sight of this and OF Great Britain's
amazing success IN distant colonization.
The Japanese people favored the war
and were enthusiastically for it, the
masses of the people both north and
In the central section Loyalty support
ing the government About Nagasak,
where the Russian squadron has been
stationed for years, there are Russian
sympathizers, with the Russians not
Russia
Russia is not a monarchy" said the
speaker. but it is q pure bureaucracy
like Korea and China. Between the
Russian government, as it is now, and
the Russian people there is an abyss
never to be filled Their mutual rela
tons are those OF conqueror and con-
quered. The mass of Russian peasan-
try is a conquered nation. The gov
eminent claims to represent God Al
mighty, but failing to produce its Gre
dentiaIs it must be considered as repre-
senting nothing except the Imperial
Guard and---the ignorance of the
people. These are the only two but
tresses that prop the huge body of that
giant like the two legs of clay. Still
the world moves on and on, and the
situation of the government becomes
more critical every day
RUssIA's AsIATTC INTERESTS.
Speaking of Russia's Asiatic inter-
ests, the speaker said that the peas
ants, despite the vast uncultivated
tracts of land at home, have been anx-
ious to emigrate. This is because they
Russia and because of the lack of edu-
cational facilities. For this reason the
peasant class has been compelled to
move eastward to Asia, where the con-
ditions for primitive methods Of ex- E
Eensive agriculture are more favorable.
BY allowing more land to the people
in Russia, this emigration could be
stopped and bloody conquests of new
provinces would be totally unneces-
;ary. The obstinate persistency in the
present policy" said the speaker. con
stitutes a fragrant act of treachery to
the Russian people, an alliance with
western foreigners against them. If, {
Is an answer to such a course, the 1
Russian nation sees fit and proper to
inter passively or actively into an al
lance with the foreigners East or
Vest against the Russian government, l
his will be but a natural and perfectly .
ustihable measure of self defense" +,
THE HOME MARKET.
The condition of the Russian home
market was also pointed out as an ,
of Russian misgovernment. !.
he purchasing power of the mass of
'eople has been crippled, and conse-
uently an outlet for the rnanufa ctured
roduct is sought abroad. Still Russia
ould use all her own manufactured !.
roducts. were the purchasing power