The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-20
Baltimore Herald.


 is a graduate of the Harvard Law School, class of TT, and was class mate of Baron Kaneko. His rise to his
 present high political station Is due solely to his ability. He has steadfast- ly refused to ally himself with either
 of the parties of the politics of Japan.
 Befoie becoming minister of foreign affairs, Baron Komura represented his Government on several important mis- sious and cu each he won the commen- dalton of his superiors for the services
 he rendered.
 Baron Komura was graduated from the Imperial University at Tokio in
 1875, and was sent by the Japanese Government as a student to Harvard. At Harvard he became the warm friend of Baron Kaneko. Baron Kaneko was in society, but Baron Komura was of a retiring disposition and cared little for society In this respect he is the same today. On completing his studies at Harvard he went to Europe and studied there for year. When he returned to Tokio he became member of the bu- raau of translations.
 He was sent to China in 1893 as first secretary of legation. By reason of his skill ag a diplomat he was steadily promoted from vice-Ininister of foreign affairs to the office of minister at Washington. then to St. Petersburg. and later. during the Boxer troubles, to Picking. He was appointed minister of foreign affairs in 1900 His greatest achieveemnt In this orTice was the ne-
 gotiation of the Anglo Japanese treaty. At Harvard, Emerson was Baron Ko- mura's savorite author, from whose
 writings ho has adopted his motto of Simple living, high thinking" Baron
 Komura is 5s years old.
 The personnel of the Japanese peace commission. says Adachi Kinnosuke, in The New York Tribune, is remarkable l for the lack of commentators. High sounding titles, men of striking ap- pearances- not only that. but even the
 men with historic embroideries-seem | to have little room in it. Ability-so- | Der, hard working ability-seems to be | the keynote of 1t all; not in the least theatrical. without even a hint or a promise of a dramatic outburst of genius in the toilsome hours of the Hateful negotiations which are so preg- nart with the fate of the far East. I The head of the commission. Baron Ko- mura Jutaro, does not tower many inches above five feet neither Is he | the broadest of men. He makes one think of Alexander Stephens, of Geor- | gia; and the men who would swallow and digest him--or his brains, at least must have a powerful stomach in- deed His makeup, like his country. emphasizes the quality. He is a living protest against quantity. And the West. forevee in love with the number of inches of a mans belt line and of the pounds of his weight, might not look upon him with favor. No matter. It is much happier for a man to inspire | respect for his work accomplished than for him to inspire large hopes by his appearance.
 e aR hn worldly weight of the flesh. he is cer- | tadnly not poor in the matter of experi- | ence. There is an old saying in cer-
 tain corner in Nippon which runs some
 thing Ike this: When the gods are l partial to a mortal, they try him | through q hundred fires :" Since he | came into prominence 1t is difficult for
 one to recall q single post filled by Ba-
 ron Konura which might be called | easy. .@ #.%- :.. @4~ l. . In his unknown days he had been a
 child of diversity. Since the day when fame made tardy acquaintance with him he has always made you think of | a beacon upon a stormy night. He | rose from a modest place in the diplo- I matic service. Remarkable as 1t may
 seem to you, there were days when the
 most prominent figure in the great dip l lomatic conference of the century was | obliged to expend all his talents in | u lew lnOlIIeTSnl | off and on, a work good enough for any
 schoolboy. But of course lamp under a bushel is a rather rare fable in Nip | pon, and there what is hidden must of
 necessity appear.
 And so 1t came to pass that late in
 the day he made his first step in com | ing to his own He was in Picking,
 in Washington and in St. Petersburg, | and in the trying days of 1903-05 we have seen the portfolio of the Minister
 of Foreign Affairs in his hands. And ] as if to crown the crown of thorns, he
 is here in this country to undertake perhaps the most difficult duty of his
 life. Of a truth he Is the favorite
 child of the gods. He who looks upon l his mask face" and sees only a mere mask fails to read the hieroglyphics of
 the gods. and which the human will | swimming forever against the tide carves upon mans face. +.-...
 MT. NJ. W. Denison Is with the mis-
 sion. He Is an American-on the elev-
 enth day of May, 1S47. he was born in Guild Hall. Vt.-as if the world need ed to be reminded once again of the
 never ceasing debt we, of Nippon, owe
 to the home land of Commodore Perry
 Like Baron Komura, his American ad- viser began his career from the mod est rounds of the ladder In the trou-
 blesome days of '64 he was a clerk in
 the War Department, in Washington and little later he was transferred | to the Treasury Department. At the
 same time, we are told, he was a stu dent in the Law Department of Colum-
 bia College, in Washington, D. c. In 1889. when the Tokio Government was
 one year old, he came to Kanagawa After almost ten years in the consular
 service of his own country he resigned
 and practiced law in Yokohama.
 | In May, 1880. he accepted the invita- | tion of acting as legal adviser to the Foreign Office al Nippon. and in that ] capacity he saw the historic days of 1 the Shimonosek. treaty. Sometimes, al
 his breast, you can see the souvenir of
 those days; 1t is the grand cordon oi | the Order Of the Sacred Treasure which Ills Majesty. the Emperor of Nippon | presented to him as a token of his ap- | preciation for the services to the State He had no small role to play in bring
 ing about the Anglo-Nippon alliance. In | 1900 he was one of the men who repre-
 scented Nippon at The Hague
 MT. Sato Aimaro, like Baron Ko-
 mura, is a product of an American col l lege: De Pauw University is his alnu
 mater. He was graduated from that
 institution in the class of 1881, at the
 age of 25. he having been born on April 23, 1856. He, too, started his l In 1887 he was sent to Washington
 thence to London in 1891. In 1893 he
 was promoted to the position of sec ! retary to the foreign office. He en- | joyed the diplomatic life and experi-
 ences at Paris and Berlin, and in 1900
 he was appointed minister resident to