Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-08-10
pEAcE CONFERENCE PERSONNEL.

The personnel of The Portsmouth conference is re-
markable. says the Denver Times. If any set OF men
could succeed in bringing order out Of chaos and mar
mony out of discord these men should be able to do so.
Both the japanese delegates have been much IN
America and are thoroughly familiar with tie RUSSIAN
situation, having had much to do with the diplomacy pre-
vious to the war.
Baron Jutaro Komura came to the United States at
the time of our first Worlds Fair. the Centennial ana
entered Harvard, from which he was the first Japanese
TO take a degree. He was the predecessor ot Mr.. lak-
abira as minister at Washington. and also served as the
representative of Japan at st. Petersburg. AT the time
of the Boxer rebellion in 1900, he was minister to emma,
and it is probably due largely % his skiltul nlanagemenl
of affairs that Japan came out OF this dlltlcult crisis win
Increased prestige in the eyes of the world. Ia Septeni-
Der. 1901, Komura was made foreign minister, and IN
February. 1902, was given the rank of baron. In person
he is slight and short, even for a Japanese reserved III
speech and a deep thinker.
Korgora Takahira, the present minister to Washing
ton. is also an embodiment of the new Japan. He nd d
broad. modern education in Japan, becoming familiar
with Chinese literature and philosophy as wei as that OF
other nations. He entered the diplomatic service as a
student attache at % and has ever since been in dipio-
matte position. one after another, in all parts oil the
world.
Both he and his colleague are of humble birth, having
risen TO their present distinguished position by their own
ability.
Both the Russian plenipotentiaries were opposed 10
the war. and Baron Rosen, especially, is familiar with the
Japanese and as minister there prior to the war was as
fond of that people as he was popular with them. he mas
represented Russia as charge daffairs at Washington
once before QSS91S9D, and consul general in New YORK
for the same period. He is the only one OF the TOUR men
of aristocratic birth. Count White is from the people he
entered government service as a railway clerk, and first
attracted attention at the age of q by his efficiency IN
bringing order out of confusion in the transportation oil
troops and supplies to the front in the RussoTurkish war.
For this prompt and competent assumption of responsible
fifty he was placed in charge of the Russian Southwest
ern railway and soon afterward called to st. Petersburg
where he was made minister of commerce and later MN
lister of finance. He reformed the finances, placed the
country on a gold basis, restored its credit and accu-
mulated a large gold reserve. He brought almost all the
railroads of Russia under state management, and con-
structed the longest railroad in the world, the TRANSIT
berian. which connects st. Petersburg with Vadivostok.
He made liquor selling a government monopoly through
out the empire, thus securing a large revenue and pro-
noting temperance. The industrial development of Rus
STA is largely due to his encouragement of manufactures.
It is a significant fact that the two men who tried
to do most to avert the war should be the men upon
whom their country calls to lift her out of the evils they
sought to avert.