The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-18
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days really prepared Denison for his
 There were extra territorial rights in thise days, and from those rights and the first unfair treaties negotiated
 with Japan igrek a vast number of iD-
 tricate legal questions.
 Denison's inclination was to the law.
 First student of it because of the ne-
 cessities of his work, he later became love for it. The possessor of a com pletely balanced judicial mind, a judg-
 ment as dispassionate as a machine and a memory almost as accurate as the gravers art, he made splendid pro- gress in the law, and within a few years he resigned from the consular
 service to practice law privately among the foreign community in Japan. Frequent examples of his talent
 brought him to tn enotioe of the Japa-
 nese Government, and in 1880 Count Inouye, one of the chief statesmen ot
 Japan, then Minister of Foreign Af-
 fairs, invited him to join the perma-
 nent staff of hls office.
 in those years there wer hundreds of Western teachers, experts and guides of various kinds in the employ of the wAvs of the West, but the pupils soon
 became masters and score by score the instructors were dropped. only 2 handful now remain and Denison is their leader. in rauk, pay and consider ation.
 Denison has broadened and progress ed with his work until in his knowl- edge of international law, the history of diplomacy, usage and custom, and the general science Of government, he Is the equal of any living man. It is difficult to single out the particular achievetnents of this wonderful, silent. reserved man who stands forever in
 the background, but there has not been an important foreign affair for twenty
 years in which he has not been com suited.
 Throughout the troublesome days of the war with China he was ever held at the side of Count Mutsu, then Minister of Foreign Affairs Denison's part in that piece of history will probably new CT be known. All that we know of 1t is that at the close of the war DenisoB
 was summoned to court to receive a handsome grant of money and the thonks of the royal family. In the affair with Russia he was constantly at the side of Baron KO- mura, and a British diplomat was heard to declare that Denison wrote, in be- half of Japan, the bulk of the wonder | full correspondence from Tokio, pithy, lnclSfVe, clear anu 4OSASali that pFOCeo-
 ed the war.
 The same British diplomat was au- thority for the statement that Denison advised the Japanese Government throughout the negotiations for the
 first treaty alliance with Great Bri- tain.
 Denison played a very important part in the treaty revision that, ten years ago, claimed the attention of the world, and there have been few domes- tic concerns of high importance in which his wonderful knowledge, judg- ment and resource have not been used
 to great advantage by the Japanese lGovernment. At Portsmouth, when Witte and Komura had concluded peace, Denison was designated, on be-
 half of the Japanese 70 frame the agreement and treaty that were later
 signed.
 There have been changes innumer-
 able in the government of Japan since
 Denison first entered the service, but
 each succeeding cablnet has recogniz- ed his worth and insisted on his re- rsntion He has received the highest decorations granted by the crown to those who are not princes of the blood, and if he ever cared to take advantage of great honorary position he would
 be welcomed everywhere throughout the land as great noble. He is one of a very small number of foreigners ever admitted to the Emperor. and among his valued possessions are sev- eral costly imperial presents.