The Chitina leader., 1910-12-17
LET US MINE
 OUR OWN COAL
THE AWAKENING OF ASIA.

SleepluS uO6S AAS. s eAAN
 time Americans are trying to cap ture a substantial portion of the oriental trade, which for the past years has been mostly in the hands of the Europeans. Whether the riv- airy between the Europeans and Americans has at last awakened che sleeping dog" or whether it is the natural evolution of things, it is hard to say.
 At any rate, the Orient is now men, acing the West in such an earnest manner and open-minded way that no pretense or apology whatever is made about it, or is any effort put forth to hide it from the Occidental.
 The sleeping dog" has awakened and the Oriental has thrown down the gauntlet of industrial war to the Occidental. And it will be no mean war either, for when once the Ori- ental mind is awakened he can scheme and plot in way that would make "Old John D. himself look like a pupil from a kindergarten school.
 So at the present time the Occi- dental is fighting hard to retain his hold on the markets of the East and the Oriental is now beating him in a battle where hitherto he has beer an easy victor.
 With fine equipped factories fitted with modern machinery and run by native experts, trained in Europe aud America, manned by the cheapest labor and an unlimited supply of raw material, there is little wonder that Asia can drive the white trader from its marts.
 Some years ago when a certain commander of a man-ofwar bom- barded some antiquated forts made of bamboo and canvas stretched be- tween trees and made Japan her ports to foreign commerce, little did he think that those sleepy and self complacent people now would be one of the most dominant factors of As ia, both in industrial and military matters.
 Japan is called the Land of the Rising Sun" I think that her sun started to rise shortly after the con- mander of the man-of-war "swaD- bed" ont his cannons, but one thing sure, Japan's sun has risen steadily ever since. At present, with the an nexation of Korea, she has won her war for an empire and with her in- fluence extending over Manchuria. Dai Nippon has entered the lists to capture Asia commercially and pos sibly in the future with hope to sec her flag floating over China and In dia. There is no doubt that the Japanese have succeeded in learning the most efficient and economic meth ods of production, transportation and finance. They have possessed them selves of every facility that the ex- igencies of modern trade requires and the Westerner finds it harder ev- cry day to retain his trade monop- oly of the East.
 Not only has Japan awakened. In- dia is making every effort to out rival Japan and China. Someone has given the Dragons tail an industrial twist and now one sees in the larg- CT celestial cities tall. gaunt chim- neys that rise above the many-roofed "pagodas," belching forth smoke in to the skies where before the discip- les of Confuscius used to sit at ease and make up verses to "A water mellon Seed"
 India is making every effort to keep her own markets and the mar kets of the other Oriental lands in her own hands and not permit them to be monopolized by Japan. Also the celestial kingdom is desirous of having its own markets exploited by Sam Fat, An Wing, etc, and not by Nippon or Gunga Sigh, while the Occidentals are at present ahead of