Bisbee daily review., 1904-04-12


 Responsible, Il Others obey-Whs'
 'sc Being Done pefies Penetration
 of the Most Astute Correspondents
 Tokio, April 11-One conviction hers ls universal; Unless Russia wants t<
 give up in the midst of humiliation the war will. be long. To the genera stan, planning campaigns to e1tent over years, the impatience of the cor respondents to be at the front comei
 as the batter of rain on the window
 pane. These master tacticians ant strategists are like so many machin
 ists directing a plant under cover Now and then one comes out and chats politely with the inquirer, and slips back to the inner mysteries.
 Once the whole powerful machine is in action, the engineers, with a Jap anese smile. will pull aside the curtain The first tableau was the diplomatic coup that caught Russia unawares The second was the occupation of Seoul and the victory at Port Arthur The third will be the appearance of a big army at some strategic point. Even in peace times the Japanese never say what they are doing; they announce in due time what they have cong Five men in the whole country, not, more. know the plan of cam paign, even in it's general policy. A cabinet officer put a question to one Of the five, whose answer was: It is better that you should not know. It will help us none if you do know, and you, might, in an unguarded moment, let "a hint pass your lips" The cor respondent who complains must recall that Stonewall Jackson never took his own Staff into his confidence
 one.is Responsible, All Others Obey.
 In this land where authority comes directly from the emperor, one man, or 8 set of men, bears all the respon- sibility. The business of the rest is to obey. The major general himself ma ynot know what is the objective of his division. He is as essentially one of the chessmen as his own privates, moved by the great players in Tokio. When local paper says that an off cer of the imperial guard has departed cestinaiion unknown it is telling as much as the officer himself knows. At the',ofice of the general stan, where Lieutenant General Baron Kodama, thei master of the army's work, its plans and its ambitions, still remains, the mill grinds with the same regu- larity and fineness as in time of peace
 The Imperial guard has gone. "desi- nation unknown" The next tableau wiljIshow them in action. The system that carries them from Tokio to Korea or Manchuria seems almost as ob- scure to a foreigner as that of Cae- sar's transports. Ten days ago trooper packed trains were running out Of Tokio; the nearby villages were alive with flags. By way of welcome the artistic ingenuity inborn in every Japanese gave the inspiration of it's full play in decorations Little crowds gathered to cheer the glimpse of a uniform. Now the regu- lar train schedule is being re-establisn- ed and new comer, who looks out of the. window at the figures, turning the groand for the sowing, might well ask if the country is really at war. This total absence of the confusion, here tofore considered inevitable to pre- pafaton, is the marvel that continues to impress one who waits upon the work of the general stafr to go so the frott.
 Rich Treasury Meet Demands Of War.
 It is this state of peace which partly answers the question whether or not Japan can afford long war. It is now clear that the funds will be fortheom- ing to keep a great army in the field for tive or three years, if necessary Wdth the Russian navy of the seas, Japan can put back into commission all her merchant ships not actually needed as transports. She is conduct- ing operations away from home No subject of the emperor not actually with the army, need ever hear a shot fred. This people is as widely sapar- ated from the devastation of war as our own was from that of the Philip pines. Three or four or five hundred thousand of her producers are absent Of these 15o,000 are regularly in the army. To take the places of the oth- FITS is an increasing population of 500,000 a year. The loss from inter- -upted human industry, then, is incon- siderable. As much land will be titled 1 his year as last. Japan can go on -aising her silk, rice and tea, and buy ng and selling in the summer of 1904 | IS she did in the summer of 1903 The l ,xcess of consumption due to the army | will give an impetus to production. Host of what the army uses, outside of Iour, meats and some ammunition, will be produced entirely at home. The i'd saying that no nation that ever