Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1909-09-23
FAR SIGHTED IS
JAPANESE POLICY
VISIT OF COMMISSIONERS LADEN
WITH INTEREST TO Is
LAND HOME.
ENDURING FRIENDSHIPS AND
AUGMENTED TRADE THE
OBJECTS SOUGHT.

mission of peace and prosperity. The
gentlemen who are today being enter
tanned in Madison are among the fore
most men in their country. They
come to US seeking to promote friend
ship and increased trade through a
better acquaintance and knowledge of
conditions in this country. They are
the Representatives of financial, poll
teal, industrial and educational ia
pan. They are our friends and come
to us as friends who would enter into
closer business relationship.
Their efforts to promote trade inter
| course are being received in the same
spirit in which they are made. This
nation is in a position to enjoy a
vast volume of commerce with Japan,
provided we do not neglect our oppor-
tunity. The Japanese are kindly dis
posed toward us and We have always
held them in high esteem. Their SEN
! timents toward us and their position
in the orient makes it possible for us
to profit immensely in the east. They
send to us now their representative
men seeking industrial cooperation.
We should not fail to grasp the sig
nificance Of what they are doing.
| The Japanese business men real
/ ling a few years ago that a better
understanding of conditions in the
I two countries is essential to closer
trade relations, invited the commerce
| ial organizations of the Pacific coast
| to send representatives to Japan to
study Japanese resources and meth
DDS. The Americans crossed the
Pacific last year and we're given every
opportunity to see for themselves
what Japan needs and what it can do
| industriaIly. The present tour Of the
country is in response to an invitation
to return the visit of the Americans
Here Three Months.
The Japanese visitors arrived In
Seattle on September 2 and will con-
tinue their tour until December 7,
when they will sail from San Francis
co. There are thirty-nine commission
ers, besides a staff of secretaries and
artists They are the leading men
in their lines in Japan. Headed by
Baron Shibusawa, president of the
First bank of Tokyo, the party IN
cIudes Japan's leading merchants,
manufacturers, ship-builders, engin-
GERS scientists and educators. They
are here to learn what they can, buy
from us to advantage and to ascer-
tain how they may go about it to IN
crease their market here.
And we should recognize that the
commissioners are not over here for
the sole purpose of finding out what
we have to sell to them. Their visit
undoubtedly will greatly stimulate our
exports to their country, but they al
so hope to make it increase our Jap
anese imports. They desire to know
what we need that they can supply
to us for improved methods of manu-
facture and trade; for ideas that will
enable them to make best use or
their Iaboring population.
Japar's Far-Sighted Policy.
The United States is tremendously
rich in natural resources. Nature has
been most lavish towards u.s. We
have the raw material to make US an
immensely wealthy nation. Japan has
no such endowment It's one great as
set is it's vast volume of intelligent
labor. The empire is seeking the best
methods of developing that resource.
There are in Japan millions of
Workmen who need only the OppOr-
tunity to become skilled artisans
They are all educated in the schools
of their country. They are trained
alert observers. They have been
brought up to think in the logical di-
rect manner characteristic Of the
Japanese.
They are resource capable of de-
velopment to almost unlimited possr
biIities. There are not in Japan the
iron mines of the Mesabi range, the
forests of Minnesota and the Pacific
coast, nor the fertile acres of the Da-
kotas to give employment to those
hands. But the Japanese working
classes offer just the foundation up
on which to build prosperity and
| greatness as a manufacturing and IN
dustriaI nation Japan has an oppor-
tunity to become the New England of
the orient 1t has the laborers. They
have the skill. All that is required TO
insure success is to put them at work
in factories making things to sell at
home and abroad.
Looking to the Future.
The representative men of the mi
kado's empire are here to get ideas
from us and to become familiar with
conditions of this country: to find out
what they can get from US to adyanr-
age and what it is possible for them
to do to increase their sales in this
country. And they are collecting a
vast amount of data that viii be IN
valuable to them.
While the visitors are being enter
tanned wherever they go. they are NOT
permitting the pleasurable features
| Of their trip to prevent them from
learning as they go along. The kindly
way in which they are being received
is the best evidence of the success of
their mission in the interest of more
friendly relations between the people
of the two nations They appreciate
the attention that is being shown to
them. but they are not losing sight Of
the serious part Of their mission
Alert Observers.
The commissioners. who are ex-
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