The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-11

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The Japanese.
The Japanese arc bracirg the world.
Already street, conversation Is producing
wisdom to this effect: he APPS are
wonders ;Hits up to us. y yli5. ,t5s
"A feeling OF superiority does not brace.
Comic opera japanese. tSo Io. Pish3 1 y
and Poor Ba left the world CONT orta bic.
Real Japanese, Ito. Togo and Oyama,
bring the world up on Its toes
The first Japanese quality to be recog-
8nlzed by the Western world was taste
and with rough hands and muddy boots
Srecoilng before the Japanese merchant.
lapostrophized that merchant ~ us:
You are much too clean and refined
for this life below, and your house 8is
$unnts for. a man 70 live in TIL he has
never been taught. hate you because yta = d
feel inferior to you. "A M
The j apanese has a. way OF manicuring
hts nails before he goes into pa He
also has a way OF writing poems like al, ! an
5Athenian while he toug neniEng hls
fiber BY exposure to the weather like g 81
spartan. His gardens. his vases. Y all tho /.
things that make life an art and a ple cas-
5ure I'm itself. have cans ed Il the w estern
world to look with d Abious but enllgh E
fened eyes at5its damned mined me con.
Sservatories, and at its profuse. tangled I
mantelpieces. SS gsj x; Z. gs5
u Is It abetterfffor is that ] apan should be
a bic II 10 tea CHI .isS some Thing, or that We y
should have the glory OF having no 81 e-
5rlors in anything
STUDY $AEDSDEsIRB FOR IMPROVE -
AiENT! II
have seen scores Of persons Wit y
spectacles.'' said Kipling. whom II we're 4
base flattery to call soldiers. Their ON &
GERS were as miserable a set Of men az
Japan could furnish, specialized under-gis
Esize,l, hollow backed and hump shoul-
dered They WoTo5 o. tsa,,
"a and and had to trot by the side OF he A
men 10 keep up with them. jaS
here did those officers get tn cir spec
Etacles? Reading books whic n the bfts oora
who fought tho Beers had n ever see 1870
lciency whlchsts cong ny man
edge.9 Did Germany have a Ia boratory'sin
which ctiemicaIs for commerce and for
war were handled In wa " not yet
known y in Japan? ? a Japnnese enro led !:
himself among the students IN mat l a. 10
ratory. DID Chicago have a u ew4 m noo s
Of canning beef? A apaneso With spec
Stacles arrived On a sig htseeing tour
x noWledge as a preliminary TO action
tire whole recent history OF the y japanese
shows their profound belief In this pria-
Sc1ple. "a ]. d . !. II.
COURAGE, PHYSICAL AND MORAL
KS when the West ~ world had granted
the Japanese taste and knowlcd Ice, ~ st..i
.hesttated TO grant them coura ge, . E;
fHSS.I would give b good DEAL Naid air.8
Ktpling, to see them. b!oooed on "a, IA. n
equa number OF our ma i've East lndianl
Infantry. IL they have pluck. and there +
Is not much In their past record 70 snow n!os
\ that they have not, they ught 70 pc nrss-&
class enemies. Under British officers, M
stead OF tho little anatomies at preseh. =.
provided they SHOULD ne s az soou = -
Criticism now runs the other wa Ne
Japanese are rcproached for wan ting Il. 70 n
die. They don't care a bout their wives ,. N
and children. They set no more value q
on life than savages. frh ey charge ma ma n
chine guns like fanatics. and when they &
are captured, they beat out their praiIls 4
against stone walls Ike cfliidrren. Ihey3 e
do. And they probab bly, construct no no F,
nhi,osonhical defense OF suicide ter cap-5
turc, They simply feel multuously that
they Wish they were dead Wlth their 4
brothers In ! arms rather than alive among
their enemies with food In thetr& stonn- IS
achs. II Is a feeling worth g few sui sui. NJ
fctdes TO any alton. n . e Z. y,
SURRENDER OF SELF TO COUNTRY
This is after MI the supreme ia paanessee
CHARACTERISTIC, Il t Eli 81 v q y,
E There are Japanese who went to Europe,
studied in the European "a boratorles, !a. l1 Y
the foundations Of extensive persona
regulations, and are now working IN Inc
Japanese government laboratories with
no moro glory than II they were labeled
No. 1875 or Mo- 2oS. 4. *
Love, as well as anlhitio YIELDS stlo
patriotism. The Japanes ii vi yes q IloSYa
their husbands; But they love !. Japansb
more. So when their husbands sare cons y
scrlpted they put out flag IS ana re- e. =
Wed by their .neighbors. "a. "a !. X 4
1t is a law Of the blologiea W g -
that disconnected Gel is e are & lower than
or ganis1ns In which multitude OF cells 4
are gubordlnated6 to an inclusive Wfol
The empire ofsJapan Is such an ORE NJ
ism. The a anese Is a. mere cei!,s5 ana n
in being a mere cell he attains higher
than II he lived to,ihimself
THE&LEss oNitiTO THE World.
THE Japnnese have their faults Only
3their%yirttues have been mentioned here,
because II Is their virtues that VIII rails
them and ra ise N he 4wo rid. Y is5 J5S5
Z III the ,Jnpanese we're uncouth lgllnr.35
ant, coWa rdly a nd uMpat ri otlc here would
he no talk about the vel lowi3pe and
5repose on the lotus bed Of superiority,
AS things are, the western world ls in.,
yited to resent the proved fact that The s
Japanese have taste, knowledge, courage
and love of country to so preenlnents a
degree as to make us feel uncomfor tahls,
We ought, to be grateful to the Japa,
,.ese for nal king us feel Jun com forta pig,
The manlfest destinYlof the yellow peril
Is not to sublue x he western world, but
to Improve 1t. Thank heaven there n
one more ma lon worthy to share ! he Z
liz nd an sOf this MIA NETS fu are
The Japasese have learned from us i
is. a re as wise sns they as,re. 8 we cam learn
some things from ,snl. y 7 ste, knoWl-4
edge. courage, patti ism rel. not ne
through the nerves that nourlsh these
things In the bosom Of every man In
Europe ana In America e chlca 50 Y Tstt.
ppne. rs 4, Y e e