The Cairo bulletin., 1908-03-27
JAPAN 5 |kYAS|0NS
Have Met With Failure In
White Mans World.
SUCCESS IN FORMOSA


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1t Is customary for the Japanese
and the otiicious friends of Japan 10
speak OF the exclusive attitude ad-
opted by men of Anglo Saxon ances-
try in Australia ana Canada, in Ma
al and in California. as an ilIustra-
ton of race pride and prejudice OF
Which We have no reason to be proud
and mucn cause to be ashamed
There would be some foundation
In the charge, at least enough to
demand the most careful inyestiga-
ton, Ii it We're true that the Japan
csc coIonist and coolie laborer were
welcome everywhere or anyN here out
side of the white mans world but
the advocates OF the japanese and
the frothy journalists OF Toxic and
Osaka themselves overlook the fact
that their fellow countrymen are
much more unwecome and that they
have been treated with crater Sc
verify in all Asiatic countries than
they have been in America, in Can
ada. In Australia and in Natal
This hostility was shown in the
generations long before trades un-
ions became a power in the world.
years before the international strug-
gle for existence became so sharp.
and it Is undoubtedly founded on
the fact that Wherever he goes, with
out wishing to deny his good quail
ties or too completely cloaklng mis-
less amiabIe traits, 1t must be con
fesaed that the Japanese laborer and
colonist becomes a disturbing politl-
cal factor says a writer in the New
York Times
They haven't the faculty of being
absorbed when distinguishes the
German emigrant in our world. and
they haven't the ability 10 play the
self eifaclng role Of strangers in
strange land which characterizes the
Chinese coolie in all his abiding
places on the East Asian coast, from
Siberia to Java and Sumatra.
It was in the days OF Taiko Sauna,
that spacious Elizahethan age of Jap
anese history, and not during the
reign of the present enlightened EN-
peror. as many superficial observers
think, that Japan first became the
stormy petrol OF east Asian politics.
In great seagoing junks which were
three or four times the size Of Col
umbus's carayels, the Japanese navi-
gators sailed to india ana to Bur
nah to Siam. the Malay Peninsula,
ana the Philippines II was they
who gave the name Roson 10 the is
land of Luzon, at present out most
important insular possession.
They were Invariably received |
with open arms by the surrounding |
Asiatics, but the friendly relations |
did not long obtain, ana it seems to
be as undisputod as any fact Of his
tory that the cause OF the change |
was the political activity and the
characteristics of the in
trepd islanders.
In Siam tho presence of the Jap |
anese or rather their bold attempts
to control the Government of the |
country, led to at least two civil |
wars Disorder and discord were
the inyarlable condition OF the eoun-
try until at last the Japanese were
expelled, bag and baggage.
The japanese have been twelve |
years the masters of the beautiful |
Island of Formosa. once a fayorlte |
haunt of their piratical and snug |
Cling junks, and here, where the |
political tension Is less acute than |
in Manchuria and Korea. we have |
better opportunity than elsewhere to |
Judge of Japan's capacity as a coll
onizing power. That measure of |
success has been attained here is |
demonstrated by the fact that the
colony today is practically paying its
way.
To-day Formosa is a crown colony |
governed exclusively by officials who
are guided only by police and fiscal
Vast expenditures of
men and money We're made in cleans
ing of brlgands and brigandage those
sections Of the beautiful island adj
jacent to ports and the camphor
wood forests and along the lines of
the new railways,
The Governor has run a surveyors
line about this no mans land. and
refuses 10 accept official resp nsibili
~ for what may happen there. This
Inc is defended by hlOckhOuses. and
while the sayages do their own sweet
will in their savage lands. they are
rot allowed 10 force, and for some
'ears back have not been successful
n forcing their way INTO those sec
ions of the country which the Jap
spese. for reasons OF commerce and
IF convenience, choose to regard as
civilized
Hhe results OF the colonizing ex- II
}ehfslents of the japanese Govern
nent during the past twenty years
.annot be regarded as brilliantly sue
,essful, and there are undoubtedly
when the Imperial Govern
nent shows signs of disbursement.
{ is clear that. should Japanese col
either by the Government
" by the individual. fail, the Is
and Empire will never play the