The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-23

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dent of Blue Earth, now living in
Los Angeles, wrote a letter to The
Blue Earth Post in which he dis
cusses at some length the Japanese
question. Aside from the fact that
Mr.. Boswell has a great many
friends in this section of the state
who will be pleased to read what
he writes on a topic that is so I'M
portant, there are others who will
be interested in the situation which
has stirred up the Californians:
During my three years stay in
California / have especially observed
the Japs and the Johns also. The
former are certainly a wonderful race
in progress. Just look back in, his
tory only sixty years ago when in
1853 Commodore Perry's expedition
being the first to open the ports OF
Japan in its first treaty with any
nation, and ! yet live to tell the. story
of the return that year of that ex-
petition when my father took me
to- Charleston hayward to see, the
big ships-the flagship sloop-of-war
Saratoga being yet afloat. At that
time the Japs were in a barbarous
state. No connection with the out
side world, and look at them today
and their wonderful achievements
Their skill in the art of war and in
the manufacture of war implements
and missiles is unexcelled Iby any
nation. The great bear of Russia
even was obliged to succumb to the
repeated attacks of the little men.
Could Have Whipped Russia.
I Only last week l noticed in one
of our Los Angeles papers a letter
by a resident Jap who said that but
for President Roosevelt they would
have wiped Russia entirely out Of
Asia. The Jap dominions are very
limited. They are multiplying fast
They are struggling for more room
Korea and Formosa have both fallen
to their interests. They want the
Philippines, and may yet, get them
In my opinion the Japs ought to have
them. They have never been of any
good to us, except a. big bill of ex
pense. That old Spanish tariff has
not yet been repealed, yet the repub
lican leaders have claimed them as q
part of this great and glorious coun
try.
! you know never had any sym
pathy with the republican position
exacting a heavy tariff with the Phil
| ippines while the Hawaiian Isles .ant
Porto Rico were tariff free with the
republicans. And then the Philip
pines are. so far away that withou
practically any fleet ,on the Pacific
they are continually, a source o
anxiety. 49,. as. ~
Are Naturally Warlike.
THE Japs are naturally a warlik
race and having come in. contac
with other nations. especially on
own country, have become ,tgreat So
diers. While / have seen destitutiol
/ in our army, what was it compare
with the Japs going into a siege TO
many days with no rations except
few pounds of dry rice. / doubt Il
there is any other soldiery on cart
that could stand it, and fearless a
they are in battle, are a nation niue
to be feared. No army ever had
harder task than they at the engage
ment, the. reduction and capture c
Port Arthur, encountering all tina
science had accomplished in war m;
chimes and missiles. They hav
spread largely to the Sandwich Il
lands, and upwards of $4,000 of ther
, have found their way to the Califo
/ MIA coast.
"As to my observations of thes
, people, !. am free to admit that | al
} more favorably impressed with thel
: since our arrival here. | see thel
continually. They are very quie
Industrious, working race. The
are all of small stature---never sa
!, a tall one always well dressed, me
and women dressed in America
l clothes; never saw one with Orien
al apparel except in a show. AS
I class their morals are of "a high stan
: ard. Liquor is foreign to them as
: rule. and seldom one is seen und,
arrest or in our courts, Their chi
employment is the raising, of sma
: fruits, vegetables, flowers and plan
I upon generally leased lands, tw
, thirds of the nurseries here being 0
> Grated by the Japs, Irrigation al
: flower raising is familiar to them
:, their own country, and they hand
those matters here even superior
our own race They have INTRODUCES
many varieties of flowers, plants al
trees. Only $4,000 acres are as y
owned by them in this immen
Estate. 1t was the Japs that broug
over the system of raising plant
D shrubs, and even trees in pots al
tubs, so they can be transplanted