The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-02
THE FARMER: JUNE 3. 1917

| the sand dunes of Southampton, l. l. where he stays every year from early | spring until late in the fall, he likes
 to kick football about his yard for | exercise. He believes so much in the | out-of-doors that he rarely came to his law office between Friday after
 noon and Monday morning, which | meant that he was willing to forego the | increase which laboring on Saturdays might have brought to that s23O00-a- year income that was talked about so | much when Stimson was running for | the Governorship.
 Tennis, too, is in Stimson's line. | When he was younger than he is now,
 they ranked him as an expert with
 the racquet. and he is still able to hold l his own with some of the cracks. When l his annual vacation rolls around he goes hunting. Last year he went l after the stag in Scotland, and in 1909 | he was trailing mountain lions and
 other things in the Rockies.
 | Among the five Japanese peers who
 have just been advanced in rank the | most interesting are, of course the l Marquis katsura, Count Komura, and Viscount Terauchi, to be prince | marquis and count respectively | The proXimate cause of these honors | is, of course. the annexation of Ko- | req, in which drama the three state | men figured as leading actors. But it | had long been recognized that Prince Katsura was destined to reach the | highest place attained by any of the 1 ''elder statesmen" His career has 1 been almost meteoric for to the gener- 1 al public his name was virtually un- known before 1894, when, as lieuten- ! ant-general he commanded the diVls- ion that marched across Southern Man churia from the Yaul to Ying-kau. Five years later he undertook to form cab in 1Sta VI ha h9 f. fled Prince Ito and the issue attract ed only a modicum of attention. Fail
 ure was generally foretold But with
 failure katsura's name seems destin- ed to be never associated. Instead of sinking in the mud of party poli- tics, he made it a stepping stone to
 success, and instead of an ad-inter- i'm ministry, with a life of few
 months at most, he organized cabi-
 net which lasted eight years out of
 the ensuing ten. Moreover, in these eight years three memorable pages
 were added to Japan's history-the al-
 liance with England,the war with Rus
 sia and the annexation of Korea.
 Marquis Komura is a younger man
 than Prince Katsura, the latter being
 in his sixty yfourth year, the former in
 his fiftysixth. Komura began his of-
 f1cial career in 1884 as a secretary in
 the Foreign Office, and his first ap-
 pointment of any importance was as
 civil administrator of Antung dur
 ing the war of 1S94-95 with China Thus
 like Prince Katsura, his public ca
 reer may be said to have been com
 prised within the last sixteen years.
 In that comparatively brief interval,
 he represented his country at Seul in
 the troubled days after the Queens
 assassination; at Washington, at St.
 Petersburg, and at Peking throughout FOXHr cOn1mOfiOn
 ceived the portfolio of foreign affairs
 in the first Katsura Cabinet Q901-6),
 so that upon him devolved the con-
 duct of the negotiations that culmin-
 mated in the war with Russia; the conclusion of the Anglo-Japanese al- liance; and the discussion of the Ports
 mouth and Picking treaties. Before entering the conference chamber at Portsmouth, he we'll knew that he was about to sacrifice his popularity at
 home, yet he did not finch from the
 duty; and when, after representing his country from 1906 to 1908 as the first Japanese ambassador at the Court of St. James, he resumed his portfolio in the second Katsura Cabinet, he had the satisfaction of seeing that his mod
 eration at Portsmouth was now appre- ciated by his countrymen. Very soon
 the Korean problem pressed for radi- cal solution. Not only the acquies- cenee of the Korean people, but also the concurrence of the nations, had to be won, and the Marquis Komura's management contributed not little to both results.
 Gen. Count Terauchi saw his first active service in the Satsuma civil war of 1878, when he lost his right arm; but his reputation has been won in the field of administration and or ganization, rather than in the leading of troops. After much service on the
 staff and in connection with military
 education, he accepted the portfolio
 of war in the first Katsura Cabinet,
 and has held it ever since. Through
 out the struggle with Russia his man.
 agement of the department of supplies
 endorsements, provisions, and mu-
 nitions-elicited universal applause,
 and obtained for him the title of wis.
 count Of late years, the nation has
 come to regard him as a probable pre-
 mier, and it was felt that wise choice
 had been made when the Gazette an-
 nounced his appointment to the first
 governor-general of Korea. He has
 amply justified the confidence reposed
 in him. for his gifts of organization and
 foresight have achieved the feat of
 averting every semblance of accident
 or miscalculation.