The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-09-07
JAPS REALLY GOT
ALL they WANTED
Analysis Of The Terms Of the
Peace Treaty Shows That
They Got the Long End.
FEDERAL LAWS REVISED
Special Commission After Eight Years
Of Labor Is Preparing to Deliver
togthe Next Congress New
Federal Code.

Federal Code.
first shock incident to the realization of
Japan's defeat in the diplomatic game
that ended her victorious war has
passed away, the impression is gaining
ground that after ali Japan had gained
much more than at first appeared. Com
pairing the peace terms and the condi-
tons surrounding h Toxic govern
ment with those which obtaiped when
the war opened, and it is plaia enough
that Japan has secured, and firmly Sc
cured, all for which she went to war,
and much more.
Japan Went to war for national secur-
1ty and honor, and has gained both. She
was prepared to sacrifice every national
resource, and she has added to her ma
tional resources. She has made Korea.
her own; n she has made Manchuriai
a Japanese sphere of influence in about
the same relation to the empire that
Korea formerly occupied.
1t is true that the terms of peace do.
not admit this. On the other hand they
returned to China. But Japan will
retain Dalny, Port Arthur and the.
Lao Tung pe%ninsula; it will retain the,
southern parts of the railroad, which is
the commercial backbone of Man
churia; she will say to China the re-
mainder of the line to Hardin, and the
joint operation of these sections is Ger
ain to be dominated by Japan.
Thus, with the seacoast and ports in
Japan's hands, with the railroad lines
In her control. and future railroad de-
Yelopment certain to be given itstdirec-
ton by her, it is plain enough that
whatever the peace pact may prescribe,
whatever the nations may assume,
whatever protestations ma be made
about maintaining the open door,
Japan is in possession Of the CONNER
cial opportunities of Manchuria.
To Be Commercially Absorbed.
1t would be as reasonable to say that
because England is a free trade coul-
try-keepS the commercial open door
to the world-lIngland is in danger of
being absorbed commercially by other
nations, as to assume hat because the
nominal open door of trade is MAIN
tanned in Manchuria, Japan will lose
control there. In the first place Japan
wants Manchuria. She needs it. She
is closer to it thai any other power
that has the wish and the ability to
develop It's possibilities. She has made
Il tremendous advance already toward
putting herself into control of the
strategic. points in anticipation of her
era Of commercial expansion. The
L ~ Wi ~ y l Iii
wise involve losing her grip on these.
Japan in 1894 was in no such power
full posture as to dominating Korea as
she now occupies in relation to Man
churia. She had to fight China and
then Russia, to establish herself In
Korea. She has her hand on Man
churia and her plans made for exploit
ing it. In another decade it will be in
yaded and absorbed exactly as west
ern Canada is now being invaded and
absorbed by citizens of the United
States. 1t may never be japanese in
name, but it will be in everything else.
New Federal Code Ready.
After eight years Of continuous work,
during which it's very existence has
been almost forgotten, the commission
to revise the laws is preparing to de-
liver to congress Il new code of federal
statutes. 1t will probably be turned
over to congress, through the depart
and will be II of the most interesting
white elephants that body has under
taken to talne in n generation.
Not since 1873 has there been a re-
vision of the federal statutes; and the
revision now nearing completion repre-
SCENTS an Immensely greater task than
did the n Of 1873, because more gem
eral legislation has been passed since
1873 h in ali the period of consti-
t%utional government before that time.
The revision of 1878 was q work Of sew
eral Years and considering the immense
task which confronted it. the h%aphazard
manner in which congress has sent ii
about it's work. the new commission
is considered to lave done q remark
able work in the time it has taken.
Although called Il revision commits
sion, the body is more properly a codi-
f~ication commission. Its business is to
put together the laws Of the land In q
compact. unified body. Obsolete express
sions are being cut or; sections that
have been declared unconstitutional or
have been repealed are peing dropped:
the laws passed since the last rcyis-
ion are being consolidated into the Old
er BODY. and the whole thing is being
systematiZed, arranged and indexed. At
present the index is about half COM
pleted.
Some Careless Procedure.
Senator Hoal. Wlo WAS the father of
the movement for the new revision now
nearing completion, used to tell some
good stories nn how congress in 1878
adopted new Stltutes. He declared
that at u late night session there
We're just three members of the house
in their seats when the revised laws
come up and were adopted. In the sem
ate The attendance was scarcely bet
ter. The entire federal Law was adopt
ed in d purely p~e"functo"E manner.
without any real consideration what
ever.
Within Il short tinle II began to be
discovered tlIt the new revision was
full of errors: some serious. some mere
ly casual: but how many there we're.
and how serious they were, was mere
matter of conjecture. So the next con-
gresS provided for Il commission of one
10 correct these errors, and to report
the corrected code 10 the secretary of
state.
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