The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-09-17

W1Cn the progress OF the campaign
in Manchuria there is evident a mark.
ed change Of feeling toward the re.
spective combatants not only among
the general public but in official cir.
cles, both civil and military. Japan.
ese victories are no longer viewed
with satisfaction or Japanese charac-
teristics regarded as matters for
eulogy, says the New York Herald.
At the beginning Of the war SYM
pathy here was almost universally
with the japanese. There had been
great irritation over the failure of the
Russians to evacuate Manchuria not
80 much on account Of any special in
terest Of the United States in Man.
churia itself but because it was felt
that the Russians had deceived and
tricked us and had failed to carry out
promises freely made.
Japan, too, was regarded as an un-
der dog, as small nation which had
been deliberately goaded into a fight
against tremendous odds and without
any reasonable hope of ultimate VIC
tory. Besides, Japan had been in a
way protege Of America, which had
introduced it to the fellowship Of ma
tions, and many Japanese officers had
been educated in our schools and COL
leges. Under these circumstances,
even the decidedly Oriental trick by
which the Russian navy was crippled
before the regular declaration of war
was only mildly deprecated.
Army and navy officers who have
recently returned from the Philippines
and the China station report that at
present the Japanese have not friend
in the East among mercantile, mill
tary or naval men Of white extrac-
tion. Their success has made them
insufferably overbearing and insolent.
They implicitly believe that their army
and navy are invincible and give their
views publicity in manner which is
calling. Their total disregard of the
truth, their apparent inability to con-
ceive that there is anything sacred
about promise or agreement, and
their barbarism which is so clearly ap-
parent through their veneer of polite
ness and civilization has irritated and
alfenated all who have come in con-
tact with them. The disillusion of the
pro-Japanese correspondents who
docked to Toxic early in the year is an
old story.
In Manila and the Philippines gen.
orally the steady successes Of the Jap
anese are viewed with disfavor and
some concern. It was we'll understood
that the Japanese supplied munitions
of war to the insurgents on very favor
able terms, and that there was more
than mere commercialism behind the
aid given the Filipinos. 1t is believed
that a number of Japanese officers un-
der leaves of absence served with
Aguinaldo's forces.
That Japan resents our occupation
of the Philippines is we'll known. A
naval officer tells story which shows
the attitude Of the Japanese on this
matter in a strong light. While sew
eral Japanese ships were in the har-
Dor Of Manila before the outbreak of
the present war a number of our off,
GERS were invited to dinner on board
the Japanese flagship. To the aston
ishment of the American officers the
younger Japanese officers discussed
quite freely our position at Manila.
They showed remarkable knowledge
of the Notifications, and the disposi-
tion of our troops; they had exact
data as to the length of time it would
take a feet of ours to reach those
waters and gleefully declared that
there was not a gun on the island
that they could not silence in fifteen
minutes, and that we could not as
semble feet large enough to prevent
them from landing 100000 men on
Luzon within two weeks after the or.
der to mobilize was given. They also
announced that Japan would never
wait for formal declaration Of war