Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-12

French. 1890: the German. 1894; the
Japanese, g.
There is no people in the world as will
be seen by the foregoing. who are so
heavily mulcted for ma
heavy tional purposes as the
T.xes subjects of the mikado.
The tax-producing ma
chine in Nippon has become an instrument
Of torture. From time to time bitter COM
plants are made in the press: strikes have
grown frequent in industrial establish
ments: banks have suspended payment.
Matters are made worse in Japan, as in
Russia. by the enormous rise within two
years of the price Of living.
This rise promises still further increase.
Rice has augmented 100 per cent within
one year and life is getting to be as diff
ficult for the Japanese as the Russian.
Hence the emigration to California and
Canada. which has given rise to another
problem. In California. Australia and
Canada the relationships between Japa-
nesn and European colonists are tinged
with ferocious hatred. The Japanese
menaces the lowering the price of labor
He is. therefore, an object of hatred by
the labor class And DR.. Dillon adds:
why should We white men, says the
European laborer be set on the same level
of these 1ndian-Japs and other orientals
who can live for week on the memories
Of a days full meal? Why should we con-
| sent to earn less in order that these in
truders may get foothold in the place
and use it to drive us out?''
Nor are the orientals in question. the
Hindoos and the japanese. inferior peo-
pies. They happen to be formidable COM
petitors and successful trade rivals. and
are likely to best the white man in
the struggle.
Therefore the venue has been changed"
says Dr. Dillon. Instead of the field of
| commerce the sphere of diplomacy has
been chosen for the struggle. The next
TRANSCRIPT there be one-may carry the
combatants to the battlefield"
Mr.. Dillon complains Of the commercial
and industrial fight going on in the carry
ing trade. The Peninsu-
lar and Oriental Steam
steamship ship Company had long
Competition- possessed considerable
share of the trade be-
tween Bombay and Japan. But in De-
cember last, at the annual meeting of the
company. it was declared that the JAP
anese company had wiped out their serv-
Ice by successful competition. And the
president OF the p. and O. charged their
rivals with ingratitude and questionable
means. 1t has been charged. but denied.
that Count Okuma had advised the jap
anese to go to India and trade there
The japanese it was said, would go
to India where 100000, 600 people were
looking for Japanese protection. The In
dams have boycotted British merchandise
II the Japs let the chance slim by. and
did not go to India. the Indians would
be disappointed. If one will not take eifts
from heaven, heaven may punish the
II Count Okuma says DR.. Dillon did not
utter tnese words, he doubtless Thought
them, for nothing could be more natural
more patriotic and more human.
Japan besides has entered industrial
neids. and Is now England's rival in shin
puiidlng and In cotton spinning.
All Asia. indeed Is awakening tn j..
sense of its rights. and its wrongs. and
at the same time to the weak points of
the occident. This rivalry-it might have
been and should have been known IonG
ago-presages a danger of the gravesf
kind
Mr.. John Foord, secretary of the Amerf-
can-Asfatfc Association in New York the
Importance of which in our trade reIa
t1ons is 1nestimable, read a paper recent
~ before the American Cotton Mani
facutr1ng Association at Richmond in
which he said: