The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-13

| imported for the Use of the poorer
classes. on the other hand the sweet
potato is extensively grown and is pop
ular. The soya bean is staple crop
Besides its food uses It furnishes an OF
that. better known. should rival cotton.
seed as n commodity. The pulp Is used
for fodder and fertilizer, Farmers are
poor, but inherit from the days of the
, samurai and daimio u social standing
superior TO the index of earning power
! The Government gives every encourage
ment to agriculture and GO per cent
of the population Ia said to be engaged
in 1t; but only about one-seventh of the
! land IL Cultivable. AS japanese farm
methods require fairness of the land in
vasion OF the lower hillsides necessi-
tates a laborious operation of terracing
But the peasants. most of whom are in
debt. are beginning to leave the land for
life In the cities.
Looking over the Industrial field, Mrs.
Anderson remarks that in sixty years
Japan has travelled 800 In her deter
mined endeavor to catch up. with the
ruling civilization of the West and
marvels that with the thrill and hustle
Of modern business life she has kept
so much of the ancient charm and de-
light" But the traveller who looks
only for the "spell'' Of "unspoAed" Japan
misses the less romantic but more prac-
tically interesting spectacle OF her tre-
mendous effort to get into step with
the rest OF the world"
The commercial fate of the Pacific Is
a problem of the very near future.
Hawaii IL to-day more yellow than
u-l,I nj Iaf -
South America. The Panama Canal
means much to the people of ar island
empire with population already aver
aging 900 to the square mile Of is
habitable land and with rapidly rs-
ing birth rate. Many Japanese so TO
Manchuria. Corea and Formosa; some
to the Malay Peninsula and Australia, n
few to the Philippines and greatly in
creasing numbers to South America.
The Japanese grievance in California
is not that Orientals are Disseminated
against. but that Oricntals whom the
japanese regard as far behind them
selves in the common social virtues,
elementary education and thrift, are
preferred above them. As Prof. Pea
body of Harvard expresses it, what
'nags" the Japanese is the indirect In
situation Of bad blood the intimatioA
that the Far East is ntrinsi.
cally inferior 10 tho Near East" who Sc
"offscourings" we accept as citizens.
Tho California trouble Is in tho All
,bor's easy ,.iew hased sImnlv unon
downright IGNORANCE ~ tho merits NJ tho
ou.s,3on The me- Ianaposo ar,um.n,
~ ,h,if, 4. IN. .nina Of TN native coli.
torpian ar9umen, an onnosi,ion ~ IN.
Janapese .re nr,,d 10 saw that In 1911
,baIr ,arp,ors nroducod moro tbar $40
ooo ooo worth ~ crons nearly ono ann
of tho states Yield. tba, aside from
ouprcrsbin ,b,ir Labor .nrtrihr,os 4,
nine-tenths share az tho harvesting in
,ina,.ard ,r,ci. CON, ana or,ha,d arJ
,h,, they nrosner on land TOO noo,, IA
a,,ract na,lve cnternrise tho native
ba,oa him for bis achievemer, In.
dians Croot. Noxicans and Italians
,oolk advan,ovo ~ tho aci,,,ior IA CIV
n,ar, tho Nirnon.so farmer. exccn,,ny
the eoueIIy comne,on, and ,hrif,,,
Italians /, is said American managers
and 4, takcs tho labor of ,hrec or four
Of those neon,s tn enual that of ono
"Jan" Janau bolie,cs thar tho atti-
tude Of California does NOT represent
the sense Of the nation. Regrcttahly
tho mn iority of Japanesc in this cnurtrv
are NOT fairly REPRESENTATIVE or Lamar.
n statement hy no means novel and I,
some extent discounted nv the corsid p
Grafton that If they do not represent
the nations best they do in all proha
bilitv represent fairly the element of
population from which. encouraging
| Asiatic immigration. we would drNN.
But .Japan's endeavor is to educate her
whole peoplc so that every emigrant
from her shores may he in the land ~
his adoption a living certificate to the
strength OF his peoples best qualities.
Mrs. Anderson remarks that when she
and her husband ACCOMPANIED Mr.. Taft,
then Secretary Of War. on his visit to
| the Philippines and Japan half a dozen
years ago. the japanese were at pains
to manifest 10 the American party the
greatest good will; that while they were
| in the American Embassy In the last
months Of the Taft administration
| there was never the slightest rudencss
or sign of violence, hut always friendly
| respect for the Americans; but Lately
owing to the California trouble, some
! rude speeches have been made and some
| writing has appeared on the Embassy
wall"
| Most Of our embassies and legations
and consuates arc american territory