The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-20
JAPS WILL. WIN,
SAYS CARPENTER
WILL DEFEAT CzAR'S ARMY.
WAR CORRESPONDENT TALKS OF
CONDITIONS IN FAR EAST.

uarshaI Ito, He Declares, One of
worlds Greatest Statesmen--Ja-
mans Progress Has no Parallel in
History-sOIdiers of MikadO Are
IovaI to Country and Know no
Fcnr-Russian victory Would Shut
on One of sOuth's Richest Cotton
Markets.
II is the opinion of Mr. Frank G..
carpenter, war correspondent. who is
= guest at the De Soto. that the war
IN the East will terminate in the Japa-
nese securing every concession that
they are demanding.
He declares that they are better
lighters than the Russians and that
at least rs per cent. of the Japanese
army would at any time be willing to
give UP their lives in a forlorn hope
for their country and the Mikado.
Mr.. Carpenter has visited Japan four
times. and says the Japanese people
have made greater progress in the last
quarter of century than any other ma
ZION in the world. Twenty-Five years
ago. Mr.. Carpenter says, the Japa-
rese knew little more about modern
warfare than did the American In
dams when Columbus landed in this
country. To-day they are manufac-
turing their own guns and have some
Of the greatest shipbuilding yards in
the world, and are constructing mod
ern war vessels.
Marshal Ito Intellectual Giant.
Marshal Ito is one of the worlds
greatest men, declares Mr.. Carpenter.
He has on several occasions interview
ed the great diplomat and does not
believe that he has a superior as a
statesman in the world. To Ito, more
than any other living Japanese, Mr..
Carpenter thinks, is due the fact that
Japan has broadened out and become
one of the world powers.
He tells an interesting story of how,
after Commodore Perry opened up
Japan to the outside world in the lat
er fifties, Ito, together with another
young student of royal blood, Count
Inoua, started out to master the Sc
crets of the foreign nations with the
determination of putting their own
country on like footing, and how well
they succeeded in accomplishing their
purpose.
Marshal Ito, he says, speaks English
almost as fluently as any American,
and is a broad-minded and liberal
man, who never fails to say just what
he thinks. He has been the Mikado's
right hand man for nearly a half cen
fury, and has done more than all 9TH
er men in Japan to organize the pres
sent system of government.
He came to America and studied our
ways and customs and went back TO
Japan and wrote a constitution which
is modelled after that of the United
States. He is also the father of the
financial system of his country, and
which is, too, largely patterned from
that in the United States.
Russian Victory Would Hurt South.
If the Russians are successful in
the present conflict Mr.. Carpenter
thinks it will have the effect of plac-
ing Manchuria and Northern China on
the same footing with Persia as a
market for Southern cotton goods. He
says the bounty system which the
Russian government enforces in Per-
STA shuts off that country as a mar
ket for the products of Southern cot
ton mills, and the same policy he be-
lieVes will be enforced in Manchuria
if the Cars country should conquer
the Japanese.
The greatest mistake made by Amer
lean manufacturers, he believes, is the
fact that in preparing cotton goods
Tor the Eastern market we do not
study the wants of the people in that
section. He believes that a fortune
awaits the enterprising manufacturer
who will employ bright young Ameri-
cans to go to the Far East and study
the patterns that would demand a
ready sale among the Oriental people.
Effect of Standardization War.
Mr.. Carpenter spent the greater part
OF last year in Europe writing a series
Of letters for a number of papers, on
the American Commercial Invasion of
Europe" and he declares that the
Spanish-American War did more to
raise America in the estimation of the
world than anything that has happened
within half century.
The construction of the Panama ca
nal, he believes, will make the South
the richest section of the country and
VIII more than double the trade of this
section. He believes that Savannah
VIII then have steamship lines running
greet to China and Japan, to the
rhlllpplnes and to Australia, and that
the amount of business from this port
VIII be more than doubled.