The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-08

The NEW era in Asia will begin to show us results
the world at large as soon the peace OASIS i'V'
nv .h u.r between japan and Russia, is fully re-es."
lished 1t may require year or more 10 loilS - o
49,; 50 ,o,ross which we're interrupted by the war;
a bor rpesahlsbed they will be subject TO the cnans
conditions which cOnfne Russian activities 10 Ile nolO
at least until it can open up lines OF trace
cation TO take the place OF those IL loses III ~ ~
Arthur terminals, In spite or theSe "'S C ,,.o1 h
over the SIGNING of the treaty of peace VIII oe
renewed activity all through northern ASIA anu " W.
Chinese territory of central Asia, with poSSolli''
thn, ,, outside world suspected, until the war ana 'ne
study of conditions necessary TO unoerS'au0 " - 5o
o1d the GREAT changes which the last ten years n"'0
made certain for the future of Asia IN the next "e"S
Tho ora Of railroad building has certainly begun 'or
o,starn Asia in 1893 with strong an impetus "s " nav
49, n+orn America in 1866. There is no room 10 uouo'
will continue in the same way. Russia Will RESUME
it r o coonizing the Pacift coast OF SIBERIA ano VI
al ling the great and fertile valley OF the A"oo'
nIans interrupted by the war, were 10 chanSe 'n 0
Siberia from penal colony to such oo"lnloi ulu.
~ p,sian system as Australia has become under inc
Rrit;Sh With this end in view, it has alreauS lmpt
what during the nineteenth century were known oniF "
C;Lo nvct stations until they beginning 10 TAKE
IN the features of modern European or AMERICAN ~
with electric lights waterworks libraries Scnoos "ou
,;tols T. NAV be long before there is a norIh dn'
tb oxtansion of railroads in interior siberia, ou Vi
Tho pocifc coast an6 in the agricultural country
tn il Russia will necessarily build railroads DIS eo
tho main line of its transSberian route ana toioFus w
the products of the farms it will continue W op W
"oreat east" The year before the beginning VI Vio
travellers in eastern Siberia found the steamers Ia
introduced for the navigation OF the A'hoor "no II
tributaries crowded with immigrant 1amllleS anu A"n
others were seen floating down the river on Such ruo
rlv
moving immigrants to the valleys OF Cne Univ Oil" "
Mississippi.
FIELD FOR EXPANSION
Russian pIaps thus illustrated have been held more
1oss y ruelv since the Crimean and the lien Isl
treaty of 1858 after which Russia made the nrSV oes
pipgs of opening up the Amoor valley According ~. "
estimates the valley contains over 'ooooo SQUARE "
territory mnch of which is available for whea' ra'si
and as sure to enter into the future OF the cl"eu "
AS are the wheat lands of the Canadian morrill, "ni0
now haing So RAPIDLY opened in what were until lale
thought of as desert regions in BRUSH Nor'n ~
The course of the Amoor for over 2OO miles Will o0
,wed nv the Russian expanson," which Is lntenueu
make the Pacific coast of Siberia country lnhaoeu
millions of people, with cities illustrating all 'he oo0
methods of German or American cltles
In Korea and Manchuria the Japanese lnnue"ce
make itself felt in rapid extension olraroauS "
that of the ten years proceeding the war Inc surplus p
ulation of China is already shifting rapluly hot0n
Manchura and it is part of Japanese plans 10 eApeo
Japanesp emigration into Korea, which the ne" o'ue''
less it is AGAIN nterfered with by European countries
olive actual control of Korean policies 10 Japan III "
Koroa and Manchuria the native objections TO raroi
and other modern methods is disappearing, IN view OF
increasing prosperity which has followed ehelr reoeu'
oinnngs The same influences Will break oo"h oniu
conservatism No doubt the valleys OF the great Vel
river and the Yang Use Kiang will be followed py +
roads and nothing except the jealousy OF the diner
governments ." Europe prevents this from oeconlnS
tointv Of the Immediate future Neither the Chinese
eminent nor the Chinese masses are ready Tor H. OUT
will accept the inevitable for lines penetrating the inter
of Asia as they are accepting 1t for lines which
beginning from the coast.
TRADE POSSIBILITIES.
With q trode nopulaton of over 400, 0O0, 000 China
has q total annual foreign trade capacity of only at
1910 600 600 for both imports and exports. This makes
AVERAGE Of considerably less than dollar head for
head of Chinese population. In British India which
already fn)lv entered the era of railroads, populao
OOO OOO has total annual trade capacity OF $685.
Ao In the activities of the world every inhabitant Of
IA thus counts at present for nearly three times
s every nhabitant of China 1t may be said that thi
not wholly due to railroad building and legitimate t
in India but to such features of control the govern
opium monopoly, and the methods of exploiting l
which result in forcing out much of its produc
Europe that famine follows frequently and plague IS
ennaI While this may not be left out OF considers
in dealing with what ought to be the future of ASIA 1t
appears that the capacity of every ASiatc to produce
To consume follows the increasing mileage of railr
and the Increase of all that goes with steam power
japan, with population of 45,0OO,0OO, and between
and 1000 miles of railroad, now has total foreign