The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-24
BY FREDERIC j. HAsK1N.

will find the Occidental society d.
vided like ancient Gaul-into three
parts. There are the commercial. the
official and the missionary circles. and
the dealings between them are at arms
length. The missionary is more dis
tinctly apart, but at the same time INC
in the East recognize him as a potent
factor in the development OF the Orient,
The late Charles DENLY, long the
American minister at Pekin. declared
church people IN support of Oriental
missions was worth $40 In actual re.
turns to the commerce OF the united
States. While the missionary Is not
trade is the last thing he thinks OF.
trade always follows the cross.
The direct relation between the ad-
vance work OF the missionaries and the
concrete commercial profit which fol-
lows is not always easy to trace. In
some instances. however. the benefit
in furtherance OF It's South Manchurian
railway scheme went into the English
money market and borrowed $4,000
600. When the British found out that
been spent in the United States for
railroad supplies. they kicked up a
pretty row in the House of Commons.
about it. so the question was dropped.
The reason why the Japanese govern.
ment spent English money IN the
United States was due solely to the
fact that the Japanese engineers In
charge OF the work had been educated
in the United States at the expense OF
the American missionaries, and HAD
made IT Impossible for them to. build
a railroad along any other than Amert-
can lines. Therefore at one fell swoop
American commerce RAPED direct re-
~ frn 40 cgp IVY
effort.
The missionary outposts are the
skirmish lines OF the advancing army
foreign influence. and hence new
market for foreign goods. no one can
deny. Il is interesting 10 study the
accomplished. For instance. one mis-
siona,y came. to Japan twenty-five
years ago. and went to live in re-
and his family could not buy the sim.
European had ever lived in that sec
ton. The people came in to see the
as they might crowd into a museum.
They examined the queer foreign
clothes with their curious buttons
They were filled with admiration when
In which the foreign barbarians wash
ed their faces and hands. The first
knowledge that came to the missionary
that he was drummer" in disguise
was when a delegation OF prominent
citizens waited upon him and requested
him to send to one OF the open ports
and buy them some metal wash basins.
Then followed the demand for under
clothing with buttons-which Is one
feature Of Occidental dress quite gem
orally adopted now, even in rural ia
finally struck the Japanese. so that
| the missionary imported supply OF
them. Within two years there. was
such a demand for foreign goods that
open foreign store. A stock was
store was opened. From that little
beginning grew up one Of the great
handling. many thousands Of dollars
worth of goods annually. Not all OF
this trade now goes abroad, for the
company con has two factories, ono Of
such utensils. and the other spins and
knits cotton underwear.
The conservatism of the Chinese is
take kindly to an innovation. a mis-
sionary family in the Interior man
aged to keep provided with a stock OF
condensed milk, brought in large
tho distant open bort. Although the the
use OF milk was unknown to the Chi
nese. the servants soon spread tales
Of It's wonderful qualities. From time
Of the cans to his Chinese neighbors.
4 The result was that local merchant
put IN a stock OF condensed milk the
that any foreign goods had been Of
fered for sale. The business was good
from the start. and in the course, OF
time big trading concern sent a
4 ders for condensed milk, which came
from a town hitherto unknown on COM
me 81, "a maps. The result was, the es-
many lines of foreign wares. notwith-
J standing the almost insuperable diff
cultles OF distance and transportation.
4 In Japan the missionary has been
out knowing. 1t: The advantage OF sit
ting on a. chair appeals to the Japa-
nese mind. although the sitting posture
that into whatever towns the mission
aries went, the demand for chairs and
tables was created. It has now reach
Christian Community; that is, where
, the missionaries have been at work
almost every family not actually pow
} has a carpet, a few chairs. a tabletand
sometimes even a bed. The presence
Of these things means that the mis-
q sionary created demand by bringing
conveniences to the minds OF the Japa.
nese. At first these articles We're a !
imported but now most of them are
|, made In this country, but with i'm
y ported machinery.
!; The missionary intJapan has not only
carried the flight" to the Japanese
! IN a spiritual sense, but In the &C.
. The ancient lamp OF Japan. vesse
filled with veg etable oil, In Which,
floated rude wick, was fit only tc
Z It was 70 invite blindness, The mis-.
4 sionariesst the first foreigners to gel
I. to 1.-The Interior, carried Kerosene ane
|. lamps with them. The practical ad.
Iinstantly recognized by the people
4 and they ASKED how they could hays
n lamps, too. Ana result the kerosene
g |Iapan as It Is N rural America, while
q I'm the cities itSis everywhere. The
STANDARD, Oil ComYany has 2. tremend