The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-02-25

harvested by machinery; the fields.
100, are so small that they cannot we'll
be cultivated with the aid of animals.
The farmers boys and girls are now
going to school and gradually adopt
ing the European dress. VIII they be
content to return to the paddy fields
when they have finished their eduCa-
tiOn2 Some of the young men pull
'Tikishas in the day time in order to
earn money to attend school at night:
will their learning make them Unwill-
ing to do hand work. Or will they
substitute the cab for the 'rtkisha?
japan faces the educational problem
that cOnfrOnts the civilized world, viz.
how to put behind a trained mind an
ideal which will make the educated
citizen anxious to do service rather
than to be waited upon TolstOfs So
luton of the problem is bread labor;
that is. physical toll sufficient to pro-
duce what one eats. This he believes
viii teach respect for labor, and, by
Identifying it, unite all parts Of society
in sympathetic cooperation. Has any
better solution been proposed?
With a broader educational founda-
ton Japan viii find It necessary to
extend the suffrage. At present the
right to vote is determined by a strict
property qualification, but there is al
ready an urgent demand for the re-
ductiOn of the tax qualification and it
will not be long before large addi-
tiOn will be made to the voting pOpu-
latiOn.
The most serious national problem
with which Japan has to deal is that
| imposed upon her by the attempt to
extend the sphere of her political in
| fiuence to FOrmOsa on the southwest
and Korea on the northwest. The
[ people of Formosa do not welcome
/ japanese sovereignty and an army OF
! some six or seven thousand is kept on
/ that island to support japanese au-
thority.
But Korea presents a still more deli
cate and perplexing situation. For
more than a thousand years a feud
/ has existed between Japan and Korea
and two attempts have been made by
/ the former to invade the latter, the
/ last about 300 years ago. At that time
a number of captives were carried
back to KOgOshima, where they, as be-
| fore mentioned, introduced the art OF
making what has since been known as
/ SatSuma ware. The fact that the de-
/ scendants of these captives have lived
in a colony by themselves for three
centuries without intermarrying with
| the japanese is sufficient evidence OF
the feeling entertained toward them by
their captOrs.
To aggravate the matter Japan has
China and then with Russia, over
! Korea, and it was also the cause OF
one civil war in Japan Having driv-
en- China from Korea ten years ago and
now having driven Russia out, she is
l undertaking to exercise a prOtectOrate
over the country. When it is remem-
bered that Korea is separated from
both Manchuria and Siberia by an i'm
aginary line and that the Koreans
! themselves regard the japanese as in
truders. some estimate can be formed
of Japan's task In a future article on
Korea I shall speak Of this subject
I more at length, but the matter is re-
ferred to here because the experiment.
is as dangerous to Japan as it is tG
Il Korea.
Il VIII japan be able TO accomplish
what other nations have failed to do,
4 viz. exercise a colonial power with<
out abusing it and without impoverish-
ing herself?