The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-13

an everyday affair. Nothing in the
shrewd face showed that he had been
under continuous strain for weeks.
I spoke to him Of the two things
which made me marvel most. The 6rst
was the organization into a united,
I thoroughly disciplined army OF classes
which formerly had never ASSOCIATED;
of clans that had always been ~
swords point: of the groups Of
friends ever ready to become factions.
One might as well have expected to
make Scot a good Englishman with
| in forty years after the border wars
as to make a unit out of the Japanese
Of 1880. The army. Absorbing all elan
rights, seems today one man and one
mind, keeping its secrets as one. How
was this brought abOut2 I wanted to
/ hear the explanation from the field
marshal who had eeen the army rise
! from the first companies that threw
away their bows and arrows for rifles.
/ There was the Oriental depreciation OF
self in his answer, which left me know
/ ing little more than before. He seemed
a little surprised that the success had
| been so manifest to foreigners. II had
been very difficult and it was still very
! difficult. according to a field marshals
/ high ideas of discipline. 10 make Jap
aneSe officers and men realize the
spirit OF. military unity as they should.
The Un-American Press.
The spirit of corps that keeps mill
! tary secrets seems perfect" / sug-
! gested.
Not entirely he said gently. Some
viii talk when they ought not to- Our
I newspapers. too, are far from being as
careful as they should be. Rather than
know everything in due time. they
want to publish something before any
one else They are not yet enough ad
vanced to be discreet"
This morning, the greatest OF news
paper mornings, all that appeared was
the official statement of the negotia-
/ tons, with Japan'S reasons for break
I ing them of. There was nothing about
/ the mobilization. or what troops were
here or being moved there. because the
government had given strong hints Of
what it would and would not permit
to be published The great reason for
the rise of a united army lies in the
inherent respect of the. japanese for
law. for the mikado. for the nobility.
and for the mikadO's cOunselOrs
To my second question, the answer
was more enligbtening 70 the foreigner
who comes TO Japan as the Japanese
go abroad, bristlins with question
marks.
Japans Policy.
IF YOU will look at the geographical
position of Korea YOU will see that il
IS like pOinard pointing at the heart
Of Japan said the marquis. IF KO-
rea is occupied by a foreign power. the
/ Japan sea ceases 10 be Japanese, and
/ the Korean straits are no longer in our
! control. Our public men are of many
/ parties. not of two only. as are yours
in America. Our cabinets are the prod
uct of coalitions. which. for the time
/ being, seem TO his majesty and the leg
kislatiVe power best to serve the inter
ests OF the country. Foreign policy is
| a thing entirely apart. IT. the consid-
GRAFTON of Korea and Manchvria, all
men Of all parties needed only patriot
ism to realize the singleness of our
interests. Whatever cabinet was in
power continued the policy of its pre-
decessor. and the policy of all on a
questions which put the very life of our
nation at stake. So cur unchanging at
titude from the outset of our disagree
ment with Russia has been natural and
inevitable. In it's negotiations. the gov
eminent has patiently kept the hope
OF peace in view. No agitation preju-
dieiaI TO calm deliberation has been
permitted, 4 society organized against
Russia was suppressed Our demands
We're clear and unfaltering. We had
10 deal with an enemy whose methods
We're those Of evasion and hypocrisy.
to whom DELAY meant advantage"
Japan's Advance.
This war completes the chain of ia
pans calculations. IL represents the
third period in the forwarding of her
high ambitions. First. when foreign
fleets opened her ports by force, she
set out TO make those internal reforms
and 20 organize an army on modern
principles which should guarantee her
safety As a monument of the initial
step. the old forts built after Perry's
coming still stand in Toxic bay. The
diplomacy of such men as Yamagata.
with the constructive home policy OF
Ito. went hand in hand with military
organization, in which the fear Of In
dia's fate was the battle cry of clans
10 sink their differences. But SIN the
foreigners in the treaty ports lived nm
. der their own laws. The second step