The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-06
QUICK TO GRASP AMERICAN ideas
Are Seeking to be the Greatest Power
In the Orient and
Elsewhere.

| war will be in evidence in more peace
full pursuits. Nothing is more re-
markable about the Oriental Yankees
than the quickness with which they
grasp western ideas and apply them to
their own conditions. Japan is sit
| uated to the Orient as England to the
| Occident, and everything points to her
| intention to become a great manufac-
turing nation and a great carrying ma
| ton. Colonization and sea power lead
| ing to commercial supremacy seems to
be her motto. writes w. w. Jermaine
| to the Seattle Times, from Washington,
D. c..
| In the course of his speech On the
shipping bill Senator Gallinger init
| mated that unless the mail subsidy to
! the American line running from San
Francisco to Australia was increased
he had it on good authority that the
service would be suspended. 1t now
develops that japanese interests &C
cording to reliable source, have &C
quired an option on these American
ships, and they will be transferred %
the Japanese flag in case the pending
shipping bill fails to become law dur
ing the present congress. This line,
according to Senator Gallinger, not
only performs the best service, but now
receives the lowest compensation of all
lines running to Australian ports.
Operated With Cheap Labor.
The service is SO swift and salts
| factory that numbers of Australian
business men, even when bound to Eu-
| rope, are brought en- route to the Unit
ed States. Since 1896 our exports to
Australasia have INCREASED almost $50
| per cent, amounting to $27,401, 900 in
| utes "to the extraordinary efficiency
| and regularity of the ill-paid Ameri-
! can steamship service out Of San
| Francisco" Under the Japanese flag
these ships can be operated with the
cheapest of Asiatic cheap labor and re-
ceive liberal subsidies from the Jap
anese government. 1t is not expected
however, that if they are acquired by
the Japanese they will be continued in
the trade between Australasia and San
Francisco for the benefit of American
commerce, but will rather be trans
Japan
Coupled iwth this information is the
report, also apparently authentic that
Japan is reaching out for the Pacific
Mail steamers and mas secured an op-
ton On them also, to be exercised un-
less the shipping bill passes. All ia.
miliar with the subject remember how
the Pacific Mail company has beer
compelled to exercise every ingenuity
to meet the competition of the Cana
dian transpaacific lines. 1t has ever
been said that the Pacific Mail steam
SAh' WIN lhCli SAipo dlIIlOSl ~ Oul
ports with Chinese crews and ther
bring them in with American crew,
placing the Chinese on smaller Graf
until the ship starts to make ner re
turn voyage, when they are picked
up and worked to the Orient and back
when the same dodge is repeated
Under the Japanese flag there would b.
no such difficulty, and the subsidie
would be more liberal
Japs Spend Millions.
While the United States, at tn
height Of her prosperity is hesitatin
to spend few million dollars in sub
sides, Japan, fresh from the ire
mendous financial drain of the late wa
and with half the population and in
comparably less resources, is reachin
out with an open purse for steamsh
lines.
Secretary Wilson of the Toxic lega
ton has sent the state department tn
lines now being established betwee
Japan and South America, with whic
this country is so anxious to ope
up communications. The first is
Japanese enterprise called the Toy
Kisen Kaisha, which already owns tn
America Maru, Nippon Maru, an
Hnogkong Maru, sailing between Chi
ma, Japan and San Francisco by wa
Of Honolulu. According to Mr. Wi
son, two steamers of 1900 tons eac
have been ordered by this company t
be built at Nagasaki The keel of or
has already been laid, and the two al
expected to be completed within tw
years Until they have their ow
steamers the company will emplc