The Wonderful Japanese.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 15, 12 October 1907, Page 11

The Wonderful Japanese.

(GENERAL BOOTH'S PREDICTIONS.) ; Gonoral Booth' is back again in Eh'g-; land, after a reception in tho Far East sfeh as;no religious leader has had since ' tho days when Francis Xavier made histriumphant progress. Received by. the Emperor and honoured by men like Togo ; and Oyania and Oknma, ho arrested'and dor,zled thij.imagination Of the Far East- 1 , . era 'peoples. ■' ■ ' . - po-returns profoundly impressed; with ' the future bcfore'the yellow races. "Thoy ar.e' Hke aiming, mighty, flowing tide,", he said in conversation- at his home- at Hjdley ;Wood."The.'West is so- busy- \ that it-has.no time or inclination to, con- ■ sicler '.what ; thoir ' new -purpose means; . China,'now re-asserting herself,.hopesito 8») every yard of- her tcriutory taken ..by foreigners-.regained.- 'All forfiignfers may yet be given notice, tb quit from there; "Tho Western world must look to.Japia as- a ■ new" and powerful competitor in' trade and commerce. She ie no; longer trammelled .by old, ideas as tb the'degradign. character of -tijade.;. It is only a <iu'Mtion of timo : wlieh; her inilnfltries' will ',b6t- tutored -with',' .the- niost expert 'direction and. packed "with; the finest: machinery. takcii' from all' the nations. of the .■world;, I 'do-not' sbe, what , can preveht hot from producing "the' finest articlcs at. the cheapest'possible'price. ' . : "Take by. way! of •illustration some.'of. thOr machinery' they are; producing;; A;' .ereat.'indiistrial' exhibition is llow :beilig' held'at;TbkiO..' One of lily; staff saw there certain'.'' printing' machinory, r ;ahdv -.vhebrougli.t me word; that.thfc Japanese.wero;. displaying.!,; n'... rapid • multi-colour. .rotary, machine.;which ' wis .-.hot; only,' an ;'im-i ' proveme'nt'• in speed'on. anything/of- th) 6 sort/in; the'' United ■ States,'. but. tvns .pro- ■■■ "The .-'progress of Japan will be -ob-. tained'/by' peaceful -methods,"'.ho con-' tinued. ."The Japanese have noV'thc most' ■distant.'desire for conflict.; -Many of their people ' died of a', broken';heart, ,at>the . amount: of. blbftd'.''and'' tn'briey ;,;sp'6nt -in • tho " : war ■ for sach sm&ll ■ rCsiills : asl. were . obtained. - They . intendto" 'retain".'what - they:'have" got,,.and' to • retftinV.it'' by- fight-, ing,.' if' figh ting is' tlfe, only ■ way."; 1 ' A little .Inter, the • Gonoral ."reverted : 'to the same. subject,', ; "Tho Chinese and 'the Japanese ,wi!|[ comein .competition and take; the .'Eastern markets' right' l away," •bcf'saifl: .'• "Their..' notions - are'.,different: from ours.''The'-Englishman-knows notli'-. iuj-'abbut-'thrift'.; "■ ;>"The. Japanese;: lives,' and lives in.'more'' ■ comfort 4hiin^.you;.inightS'thiAk,*bii;'':ifa^ . little., A day; is.' still good- wages ; for-.tho labourer.'-On';first',going-,t-hrougk; the' streets '■ you are' i mprtsstd by.-'signs) of \ poverty,;' but ;whon when : ;yOu ' enquire, y.o'u'-.find - that'none . of'the 'children': start 'HchoblTin'; thc'morning.';.with'out:'.a;gbp(l i -m6al.;-;firsti •. thatv' thfcro i-are;-, ; 'no-shoeless''' , children ,in r .thb.-.schtibls,","'and .ithat;even ■ tlio women of tho poor have decent cloth-: ing.": . J • penei-al .'Booth;^insisted- very. emphatically'on;the point-that, the.time: for .finfil .judgment: upon 'Jdpan.had'/hpt'uyet; .comb.: "■Hero;is.a' cbunt'ry;"in process of-.'social and political'.^transformation','-; he'^'' said.': "In-.everyi.dirciitioh-Iv.'saW':: evidences, of ,this.;',,change'.;.,To : ,'. ! )udge,;.Jipin'correctly; -ybu' must, beari'this-'evolu^tion.'; process nl.)yays!in,; mind.'' .They;.say that, you, must; iot; show • anjthing to fidls ahd;childreh'i until : it is* 1 flriislidd; 'and;- foolfe' and'-, cliil-j 'dretf-will be likely .to:'6rr;in forming'a, .Artseiit conditioni;'.bf j;ap4h,'.so: thoy- , had .'. better, roft-ft ih '.-frdnV ■ •ateni'pting.,the task.-; "There , are, however,; a great many, .things'"'that, 'I thihk.'.are; unsatisfactory.. . iThese',', libwever, ■ arfc' mafiy of thfcm : biiiig . changed,'..and.; jnll? bo• '.changed,.'..Drijjk' and' -twbrdemfths'.wait*.': irig. -to' pouicb. ; d(iiA i rh, lipoji- this' iflterestihgf nation., "Already.;ihrtlic bnek streets;the;; . dHnk: shops':,aro, 'spreading,-'■ Although' the; • habit,-has-,-''s6"„fiir>.nßt" touched the'frflnien,: ■'. "I;j:reiitly;'a'd.mirii',the JapanesOj+rbftian.; .She': >vill. be,'omanbii)jited';".we:.will lujye .A great dial hA-s.befch'doho ,te help; her,':and; ; a'. grett' ;deil. 'iSo're.js. gO-',| 'ihg' to- lie 'done.!: - Akhyet; lifer 1 . lot.mAy nflt; "b'fe;. fi6""^ , :la'6kih , B':[as'^but^iatl-ax.,thiiilc.. jiDKA j Woman 1 -, I who is.-'a 'tfood;' ln)uje#ifc;' thei' manager of, her "C|)n\-; ■paiiion to ; hor':'husbah(li'' fihds^"a.:v4fy larftij . part", of',.hte;,life' beeiifiiM'r;lt' : dbesvriot. , it., is ..Sbiyery , ; .pfAfbrable..tliaf slip.. should be : s.'.,{ibblifc: chdracter.. it. isn't'sb important '.thkt fehfc ohbiikV b'ii'the' frbht liorse,' or;-' rather, the-.ftbrlt mirci. The'iniih lihiist.eoifie'' flrfUnHe' niustigb' first-'tpi:do.the'nJli.tihg.' But .tbat'is,hot. -what, ai-e ;dealihg with ;nbw.';Thereare ;Splendid..Tvom.eh iiti Japan.', ' To Chiha,' G'enfcral - lobks; with, longing: feyes. ..He 'addressed-a, paity ; : of. ,• Chinese'studelits.: in.Tokib,. - niid. wis de-i lifehttd: .'with-.them'.'.''One' Chinese, student ft; vein.' ali'd.'extraet'ed some .hlbod . tolwrito to , the'.Gencral I tt-lling l.him-hbw 'he had found in; him a'master and.a.tbacher..l v '..l