The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-23
HOME AFTER THREE
MONTHS IN ORIENT
DR.. Rudolph Schiffmann Re-
turns From a Flying Trip to
Eastern Hemisphere.

Or. Rudolph Schiffmann, who re-
turned yesterday from a three months
visit to the Orient, said that every
American in Japan is now, a distin-
guished visitor.
when we entered our first Japanese
port, after leaving the Philippines, the
custom officers inquired, Americana a"
Yes" 1 answered.
The officer bowed, smiled and imme-
diately chalked all my bags and boxes
you see, l brought a few orchids
without opening single trunk. The
next passenger was a Frenchman; he
had to open all his trunks, and the yens
that he was forced to pay quite wreck
ed his amiability He said something
about the Japs being 'barbarians.'
1T was all on account of the war, of
course. The Japs consider us their
friends; and if anybody could get priv
ileges from the Japanese government,
it would be the Americans or the
English. But the extraordinary en-
barge that the mikado's government
has placed on news relating to the war
has embarrassed the American CORE
spOndents quite as much as those from
other countries.
cat Yokohama, for instance, I spent
a jolly two days with VIII Brill, the
|. st. Paul newspaper man. He was get
ting plenty of stuff he said, but al
most nothing about the war. When
ever he did pick up a good story from
an old gentleman at a tea houSe-hiS
tea house friends seemed to be all
elderly gentlemen, according to his ac-
count-the story never could get past
the censor.
Talk about editing, he said; If
these Jap fellows had their blue pen
ellis out at Rome some years ago the
killing of Mr.. Caesar would have been
reported simply as an exciting session
of the senate
and this same censorship extends
to all commercial and private messages
Before I could cable home 1 had to
show my code, explain my business
and convince the censor that my refer
ence to Mayor Smith had no interna-
tional bearing.
Say Russians Began HostiIities.
Though everybody is talking about
the war over there, you really learn
very little. I did hear it asserted, how
ever, that the Russians had sunk sew
eral merchantmen off Chemulpo before
the JapS made their first attack upon
is true, it was the Russians, and not
the Japs, who committed the first
overt act.
Business in the Philippines is dead
That's because of the present naviga-
ton laws, which fail to give any ad-
vantage to vessels owned by Americans
| and thus permit foreigners to take
| most of the coastwise trade. Chiefly
though, the trouble is the lack of reli-
able laboFers. The Filipino is a fail
Worker-when he works But if he
gets peso in his pocket, no more tot
for him until that pesos gone. What
the Philippines need is Chinese labor
which is now excluded. Under the
| present conditions it is impossible tt
cultivate hemp or sugar In the islands
or to begin any undertaking requiring
| much skilled labor
''The same difficulty is felt in the
| Hawaiian islands. But they have sue
| ceeded in attracting not only japanese
| laborers, but even Koreans. There
were more than 200 Koreans laborer.
on the Gaelic with us, bound for Hon.
| olulu. They may be better worker:
| than Fflipinos, but they certainly cam
| be compared personally to either the
| Chinese or the japanese John is {
| neat man; and your little Jap boil:
most Of his meat off in hot water; the
/ Korean never bathes at all. He think:
| that bathing opens the pores and let.
| in disease devils which is probably
| Korean nomenclature for microbes anC
/ baci11ip