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her part as intermediary between
Occident and Orient. She intro
duces the great and fully develop
ed world of the West, to the great
and practically undeveloped world
of the Far East and to the knowl-
edge of both she brings the vast
domain Of the North, Alaska, that
they three may thereafter get to
gether for their profit and advance
ment.
In a word. through the agency of
the Alaska Yukon Pacific EXPOSE
ton, the tremendous developmental
energy of America is ushered into
the theatre of the worlds work dur
ing the centuries that are to come.
1t is the first congress of the ma
tons that lie on the western seas
such a congress as the world has
never known, for participating in it
are nations and races that have only
ust avail ened and felt the fire that
moves to national endeavor and &C
complishment.
The China that was asleep and is
now awake is making preparations
to Guido, if that be possible, her
lusty, wonderful neighbor, the Mi
kado. Siam and Anam and Burma,
aroused by the unheard-of racket of
preparation being made by their
erstwhile somnolent parents, are al
so up and doing as fully determined
to show to the world their Capacity
for its tasks.
Uncle Sam is spending a quarter
million to give to the American peo-
pie a correct knowledge of the
northumberland Filipino and
his tremendous capacity for pro-
duction and industrial excellence,
and there are exhibits also from
those island neighbors to Luzon,
Sumatra and Java, and with them
also Ceylon and Borneo and the
other spice islands of the Straits
Settlements is, with a characteristic
display from Singapore, with the
whole Nj slay Peninsula included.
Penang has sent its women, its
spices and its incense, with all else
that throws glamor over equatorial
existence.
Japan's exhibits at the exposition
is far the most elaborate that Nip
pom has ever made. Not since the
day Uncle Sam quietly shook the
land of tbs rising Jul by the shout
der and wakened it from the SLEEP
of ages have the Japanese answered
O the industrial call as they have
answered to the invitation of Seattle
The first and always the staunch
friend of the natives of Nippon or
the Pacific coast, Seattle's request
has been considered a command by
the home government, and as a re.
suit the whole life of Tokyo is taken
up and transDlanted to the north.
western shore.
Not only the commercial life OF
Japan is shown, but the home life
of the people, their daily habit Of
life and dress-the way they r to-
day, the way they were one hun.
dred years ago when the Samurai
lorded it all over the land, and the
man of business and affairs CONNER
cial ranked with the scullion and
the petty thief. Japan does not
plan to show only the great things
it has today, but it's whole romantic.
startling story.
Australia, all Australasia in fact
and this includes New Zealand and
whole battalions and regiments OF
ls)ets and islands that lie under the
southern cross, have made as com
plete a showing as any other nation
or colonial government. Had that
not been assured before, the visit OF
the American feet to Sydney would
have made it certain. 1t has taken
in as dead earnest ''hands across the
sea- when sperry and the armada
sailed in past Sydney Heads, and
it's a good-natured question down
that way whether the land of the
kangaroo owes fealty to King Ed
ward or Teddy Roosevelt.
Alaska's exhibit, or better, ex-
hibits, will be a revelation to the
hundreds of thousands who strange
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