Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-30
such, at Least, is Alls & .ussians
Who Have ,s$S d
GOODS ARE R' = TREATY PORTS
Merchants 50 .fhuenoe Now Poor and
Ame japan.
TREATY PORTS
Activity of Islanucrr In Trade said
10 Mean that They Desire to
Dominate the Far
Fest.

ST. PETERSBURG. Sept. zs--Cspecidl
Cablegram to The Bee. .)-Reports received
here indicate that 1t is only a ques-
ton oil time before another war In the far
east occurs. In fact, ever since the con-.
clusion of the Russo-Japanese war many
of those interested have been greatly exer
cised and perturbed as to the conditions Of
frade in those parts of Manchuria which
have come under japanese influence. Com
missions of inquiry organized locally by
those directly interested have visited the
various centers and have reported to their
various chambers of commerce and kin
dred institutions. Unofficial commissioners
of the press have likewise travelled to the
scene and have made reports to their vsri-
Gus individual organs, both solid and SEN
sational. That many complaints have been
uttered, and continue TO be made, Is no
torious to any observer or reader OF the
newspapers.
Much has been written and said concern
ing the commercial dishonesty Of the Jap
anese. Much more could be written and
said upon this subject; but IL one-half of
the reports received here are true the white
race will wake up to discover that as
race 1t has been outwitted and outgener-
allied By the yellow race. And the final
end of some OF the dishonest practices re-
ported can only be economic, IL not an
actual military and naval wan in the not
far distant future. Russia may not be in
n position to take the lead in such fight,
but Russia, IL for no other reason than be-
cause of proximity to the scene of opera
tions. is quite likely to be forced to do It's
share of the lighting, no matter whether
on the field of commerce or on the field of
battle.
westerners Fooled.
1t is apparently the idea Of the inexperi-
, enced looker-on that directly an armistice
| or peaee Is concluded every combatant
drops his weapon and hies him away home.
never stopping even to eat until he Ia In
the bosom of his family. Also he appar-
entity believes that when the news peace
is declared" comes every ordinary occu-
patton or avocation of the normal inhabi-
| tants OF the country Is Immediately re-
sumed. The human machine has. unfortu-
| nately, still to be fed, and IL takes a long
time to get the combatants out OF the
country.
! In the treaty ports OF the far east mill
lions OF taels worth OF piece goods and
other merchandise lie rotting in the go
downs, while men who but twenty months
ago were in a state OF affiuence now haunt
the clubs and damn" the Japanese.
In Great Britain and the eastern por-
ton of the United States. where people
have never come into contact with the
Japanese except in isolated cases, and un-
der circumstances which could not pos
| sibly afford any insight to their character
| the opinion prevails that they are all that
| Is good, great and admirable. The ro-
nance OF a successful war, following as It
| did on the idealism OF poetic mystery in
which many writers had clothed japan and
which had pemeated the minds OF most
| people created a furore of admiration in
which Il was impossible to utter OF hear
any word OF warning that the japanese
! like every other race of men-are by no
means perfect.
Trade Means Riches.
The contempt with which the Japanese
! military and ruling castles formerly re-
garded commerce has now vanished. They
| now recognize that trade provides those
sinews OF war of which they stand in so
great a need during their FIRST effort toward
securing supremacy in the far east. They
| are now determined to make use OF all
( that subtle diplomacy which is the char
| acteristio of the oriental, and combining
| II with apparently frank protestations Of
\ a candor which, though nonextstent in
reality. has appealed to the western peoples
with a force 1t is impossible to estimate,
have set out again to achieve the end they
have in view silence, secrecy, masked
movements, masked batteries. rapid march
| ing and the blow struck home without
| thought OF failure. Japan intends to make
Japan the producing and also the distrib-
uting center of the far east-frst The gov
| ernment of Japan has gone into trade for
Itself, it's revenues from its government
/ owned enterprises having increased from
s27 $4,000 in 1903 TO sS7.5o0,OoO in 1906. The
government of Japan is making in govern
ment factories everything that its people
require and consume and dumping its sur
plus, by means OF its government railways
and government steamships. on the ad-
Joining markets Of the far east. Presently
! Il will be able to dump them farther aheld,