The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-09-07

conquered by a foreign enemy. Japan is prepared in her spirit as well as by her location to propagate these princi- pies among three hundred million who lie at her back.
 She has always been master of her own territory and the ruler of her own people. Since the signing of the trea- ties, putting her upon an equal footing with the leading Christian nations, she has shown herself to be quite capable of conducting her affairs in accordance with the laws that control civilized na- tions, both in her internal and external questions. At the same time she has caught the spirit of western trade, learning and religious tolerance. and whenever and wherever she has touched Korea. Manchuria and China. it has always been in the interest of the open door, general education and reli- gious liberty.
 Moreover, the Japanese are them selves a part of the civilization of the Koreans and Chinese. These are the only people who use chopsticks. Fish, rice and beans are the staple of their diet They all have drawn for genera tions their intellectual inspiration from the same classics, while Confucianism and Buddhism have furnished all class es with moral and religious instruction. The countries at the north and west possess little that Is outlandish to the Japanese, while the merchant, engi- neer, teacher or preacher from Japan finds Japan little in Korea or China that stands in the way of his progress. The Chinese language that presents al- most an insurmountable barrier to the European and American Is little more than another dialect to the Japanese. lThe European to the Chinese is "a for leign deyil;' the Japanese is only a lit- | tie devil from near by islands. Expe- rience has already proved that he can win his way among them far more readily than the pale-faced stranger from the far west.
 We have then the facts proving that, by situation, Japan as first-class mill Iitary and naval power can command lthe political policy of one-fifth of the human race. By her history, language customs and religion, she is in a posi- tion to exercise dominating influence over the intellectual, moral and reli- gious life of those peoples. By her re- ception of western learning, science ant religious liberty, and by her own ma.
 tive endowments, she can do more fol
 the intellectual and religious awaken ldng of China than any other race.
 We have every reason to believe
 that it is the purpose of Japan to carry to her neighbors of the west the best that she has obtained from the east Her physical position makesit possible for her to block progress, but her spiri as hitherto manifested g1ves us reason
 to believe that this position will be useC lin the interests of true progress ant Christian civilization.
 Our Christian duty is clear to hell Japan now, intellectually, morally anG
 religiously, that she in turn may us, the advantages she now possesses t make China and Korea christian. St
 long as Japan is Japan and occupie, the place she does upon the map o
 Asia. She cannot fail to increase politi lcally, commercially. intellectually ant Ireligiously in power and influence ovel
 all China as well as over the lesser peo ples upon her borders.''