The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-05-13
JAPAN PREPARED
FOR A LONG war
Foreign Trade Will Soon Be
Resumed and Large Funds
Are ON Hand.
CAMPAIGN WE'LL PLANNED
Very Difficult to Obtain Any Facts
Concerning a Future Move as
Mot Five Men Know Its
General Policy.

MOT rive wen KNOW Its
"+ General Policy.
TOXIC Special: One convection here
rs universal: Unless Russia. wishes to
give up in the midst Of humiliation,
the war will be long. To the general
staff, planning campaigns to extend
over years, the impatience of the COR
respondents to be at the front comes as
the patter of rain on the window pane
These master tacticians and strate-
,gists are like so many machinists di-
srecting Il plant under cover. Now
and then one comes out and chats DO
Aitely with the inquirer. and slips
back to the inner mysteries.
Once the whole powerful machine
is in action, the engineers, with a
Japanese smile, will pull aside the
curtain.
The first tableau was the dipio-
matte coup that caught Russia UNI
awares. The second was the occupa-
ticn of Seoul and the victory of Port
Arthur. The third will be the APP
pearance of q. big army at some
strategic point.
Even in peace times the japanese
never say what they are doing, they
announce i'm due time what they have
~. Five men in the whole coun-
try, not more. know the plan of cam-
paign, ever in its general policy. A
cabinet officer put a question tie one
OF the FIVE, whose answer was:
1T is better that you should not
know. IL will help us zone if you
do knoN. and you might, in am UNI
guarded moment. let u hint pass your
lips"
The correspondent who complains
must recall that Stonewall jackson
never took his own staff into his cor
tidence.
Alttho rity From Emperor.
In this land. where authority comes
indirectly from the emperor, one man,
or a set of men, bears all the response
bility. The business of The rest is
to obey.
The major general himself may not
know what is the objective of his
divisicaa. He is as essentially one Of
the chessmen as his OWN ~privates.
moved by the great players in Toxic.
When a local paper says that an Off
Ger of the imperial guard has departed,
"~destination unknown" ii is telling as
much as the officer himself knows.
Ten day ago trooper packed trains
were innning out of Toxic; the nearby
villages We're alive with flags. Little
crowds gathered to cheer the glimpse
of q uniform.
Now the regular train schedule is be-
ing re-established, and a newcomer.
II tJDhS u u ne WslllttfH at llc
figures, might We'll ask if the country
was really at war.
1t is this state of peace which partly
answers the question whether or not
Japan can afford a long war. 1t is now
clear THAT the funds will he forthcom-
Ing To keep a great army i'll the field
for two or three years, if necessary.
Foreign Trade Resumed.
with. the Russian navy off the seas,
Japan can put back into commission
all he merchant ships net actually
needed as actual Transports.
She is conducting operations away
from home. No subject of the emperor
not actually with the army need ever
hear 81 shot fired. This peeple is as
widely separated from the devastation
OF way as OUT own was from that in
I the Philippines.
Three or four or five hundred thou
sand of her producers are absent. OF
these, 100000 are regularly in the army.
To take the places of the Athars is an
Increasing population of 100000 a year.
The loss from interrupted human in
dustry, then, is inconsiderable.
AS Eauch land will be titled this
year aS last. Japan can go on rails
ing hey silk, rice, and tea. and buying
and selling i'm the summer of 1904 as
she die In the summer Of 1903. The
excess OF consumption due ia the army
Will give an impetus to production.
Most of what the army uses, out
side of ftlir, meats, and soma nmsluni-
ton, Wiz be produced entirely at home.
The old saying that no nation that
ever wanted TO make War WAS kept
from 1T by q of funds has u sound
economic basis.
lh1s nation wants to masise war.
Every man. woman and chila is Cor
bloodshed without end til victory
comes. I'm national nance at such
Il time, belief As the most valuable
asset next to .productiveness.
IL the Faaple distrusted the govern
'ment; If they boarded their gald and
refused to subscribe to the war bonds,
then We should already be in the
midst of a crisis. The coatne:ry IL
lnlagnifcentlg true.
When a people stand ready to give
ITO the government their daily earnings
and the sale Of their products, the ma
ti9n need borsaw 'o1ly of itself
There are literally no "antis'' ia lap
AN; The 100000 900 yen loan is
subscribed again and again. The
by the money OF all classes.
The coolie stakes his wages on the
noumsg of Japanese troops; his en-
ployer stakes hts business. Patriot
Ism gives the whale land the oom-
Eunity of interests Of a club. The
mobiles send In their gold cups fper-
haps given by the EMPEROR; their
wives send in their jewelry, to be
me!ded down.
A certain marquis gay all his
horses to the goveaMmene. When
1t came to the carriage ipasrc, madam
protected g little. /,
NJ husband was aaver so angry
with me in all his life as with that
piece os unselfshness," sac said after
ward.
Even as fe- nine years this people
have looked forward to war with Rus
STA as q set eventually OF the same
Aind as final examinations TO the stu
dent, they now look Forward to a long
campaign which shall test their re-
sources and patience. So they settle
doEwn to the sinister program. In a
month the news of conflict has become
n set part of national life.
Plan for Lons Campaign.
The treasury plans for a W or
three years campaign with the same
tnclusiveness of all possibilities as the
general staff. Heavy shipments Of gold
may affect the confidence of foreigners,
q course; it was foreign exchange that
sent the gold abroad. Sluare-jawed
japanese eomposure in this. as in its
naval strategy, knows its work and the
WhereWithai for doing II.