Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1905-10-05
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U. S. Consul to Mukden, Manchurla,
Making a Visit to Relatives at Car
rlngton. Views Of National Interest
Hon. James w. Davidson, United
States Consul to Mukden. Manchuria,
is spending few days in North Oak
ota visiting his brother at Darlington.
Mr.. Davidson has been entertaining
Geo. Dow, wife and daughter, from
San Francisco, at his old home at
Austin, Minnesota, and also at his
brothers in North Dakota and came
with them to Jamestown last evening
as they left for home by the North
Coast Limited. ..
Consul Davidson has had some un-.
usual experiences in China during the
last year and a half. He had arrived
in this country and had remained
about week, after completing his
mission at Washington, when the
war broke out between Russia and
Japan and he was ordered to return at
once to Mukden which was destined
soon to become the scene OF active
hostilities. He was unable to reach
there however and spent most of the
time attending to business of the
government at various Chinese points,
having been stationed most of the
time at Pekin and Shanghai. He con-
tracted the typhoid fever and return
ed to this country on an inVallds
leave reaching here in August. Mr..
Davidson hopes to have his absence
leave extended for a few months, as
it will be the first absence of any
length that he has had in seven years
which he has put in as consul for the
government at various points In Japan
and China. He has now fully recover
ed his health. q: NJ
Speaking of the results of the treaty
Of peace Mr.. Davidson says that 1t will
no doubt be Of great benefit. to this
country and stimulate our trade with
the Orient in food products, and heavy
machinery. Japan is not a competi-
tor Of ours in manufacturing, as so
many people suppose, said MI. David
son, ''they manufacture mostly small
articles and novelties and while their
trade will undoubtedly be greatly ex-
tended along other special lines in
China, yet the United States and
Great Britain will reap the most ad-
vantages from the treaty as they
manufacture and sell food products,
locomotives and the heavy machinery
required to operate railroads which
China and Japan need to develop the
country. The Russians being now
practically out of China will remove
the strongest competition of this
country. The treaty will cut into the
trade OF Germany and France more
than any other nation. Our advan-
tage in Japan will be manifest very
soon and with the removal of Chinese
boycott it looks as If our trade would
be greatly extended thruout the great
empire Of China.
"Great credit is due President Rose
ve1t, in the matter of the advice and
friendly conference with both belliger.
ents which the people Of Japan as a
whole do not as yet understand. They
seem to think the world believes that
they consented to peace because they
were cowardly, which is of course a
/ wrongl impression. The Japanese
have proved themselves about the
! foremost military nation Of the pres
'.ent time, and the popular feeling ir
Japan will in. the course of year OF
! or so realize that the world under
stands that the peace treaty was
made thru the generosity of the
Japanese desiring to bring about bet
ter relations for the whole world ir
the far east than from any cause Of
fear OF the Russian army or the Rus
sian successes. The rioting in Japan
after the peace treaty was matter
OF small moment and had little effect
on the nation at large.
]; .sThe treatment of the Chinese off,
GERS, students and members of the
j higher classes who are being sent tc
Europe and America 70 learn modern
civilization is something that counts
greatly againstthis country on account
OF the emigration restrictions and reg
sulations. We do not want the Cbinest
q coolie, in America but we do need the
visits and friendly Investigations o
. the leading men,of China and the pre-
judice against letting any Chimes
! native land on our western coast Il
now so great that indignities are fre
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