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Lord Lansdowns (at Glasgow-The fortuna of the Unionist party, which were at a 5 ebb in 1905, have at Inst begun to flow.
We see a great deal of evidenes cf dis afection and disappointment among our app ments and disappointment among our friends increasing signs of unanimity and enthusinem. There are diffraces of opinion tu our ranks bit when I contrast them with the differenees which prevail in the ranks of our oppcrema, they are very Amal!!
Mr. Haldana (at Cambridge)-No doubt ioial reforms are needed in this country bifore anything liko squality of opportunity
be the rule. It is one thing to come to comed for existing evils.
military problems is one of the most difficult Mr. Austen Camberlain (at Redditch)ar problems that any person could bare to confrost. We have had a great many attempts to selve I do not know whether the latest attempt will be successful, but I heartily wish it all succe If Mr. Haldare las succeeded in foliag solution of the problem which has baffled say of his predecessors we shall all owe him a deep debt of gratituds.
dispute with Grat Britian might conceivably arias it would perhaps not its strategiate and their subordinates at work to study the Raitish Murg and to get to know the fasts? If that Government thought the British Navy much weaker than the British Govera meat thinks it, there woull be much more probability of quarrol than the British Govera mat imagines. The question raised by Mr. Haldine, whether the Navy as always bo kapt at the two Pawer standard, question which Low: will answer as he deus, dées not affect present purpose, which is not to discuss the tuoerotioal standard of aral force for this, they but is all attention to the fact. tant sudard supposed to be maintained is in fact not maintained.
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JAPANESE OFFICIALS IN KOREA,
CUTPOKEN QIMENT WA MAPANESE. JOUR VAL.
Mr. So Hei-shan, Korono Minister, foru Agriculture, Contreras and Industry, who,
alreally stated to our columns, secompanied tinguished msall for outspoken spssshes eins the Koran Crown Prince Japso, bas dis
his arrival in this country. We nota thất thả Oak Mainich sympathise with him and pressed admiratio for his outspokenness, Thi Korsan Minister for Agriculture, Commeray and Industry aortainly has not missed atteri in the course of the ageches he be made which are delivered in fagut Japanese. In the first speech he strongly attacked the Japa sens Sir W, S. Ronson (at Newonable),Socialism palios foils in Kores, affirming ths they is expressed in perfently intelligible formula. wern is the habit of associating with the It is this:-The antionaliss ion of all the moane - local offisial, who are simply of production, distribution, and szehangse rihbəri, The police, he enld, obtained bribes This would do very well in the Garden of Eden, by any means, violated women, and per. where the population was smail but what i petrated dastardly outrage. This was suitable boa population of two is ast s › snitab's
Hei Sbun'a
of describing the to a population of 578 to the square mile. Ta polios ofisis Kores. The Osaka NERVOUSNESS ABOUT THE NAVY. Luras of rights indigestion, which the
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29gards suck ontspokenness as an out- Minister has patiently appressed until arriving war to which the Navy has sizes 106 boen Japanese police efloats in their own country
The state of weakness and of readings for in Japan, where he has seen something of the roluce is made worse by the accompanying on a boly are nduired by foreigners destine of discipline, remirks a London papos for their honesty and opabilities, The mating at Portamonth has hardly hoon Mainichi learns that the conduct of the palies forgotten, and Tot even now, statements are officials in rally worse than described by the intended to justify or to pulliste tin Koreau Minister ad there are other omonis. recent insubordination of admiral Tin state who are more than the pole, and they consira of the Navy is the graveat symptom of the stats at the disgracefal practic complained of of the nation. It is not merely that the nation! Japsuse officials generally go to Korea simply
crity has dropped below the minimum for the purpose of getting bitter atan lard; the risk that war way unexpictedly resire there salaries viral times higher than pay. They arie is greatly increased. The secret of success in Jupra, sud mat of them abandon them's Ives Government, is the maintenane of harmony way to vias, o gal iry antics than. in war, from the point of view of a nation and its drink and debauchery. Once hiring given It is in the distinguished statesman, who for several years go to Korea without any sense of daty to their between strategy and policy. It is true that a natural order of things that such offisiah, wha had charge of the War Office, declared that to country, should son descend to sit ih prating as
maintain this balance was, in a case in which ha he did not succeed in maintaining it, and the was concerned, an impossibility. At any rat results were painfully erikat. The balance tetween strategy sad policy is, however, no great mystery. It merely means that you take good care not to be involved in a dispute is which you will be unable for lack of sufficient foross to carry
your point. It is special ca of the business of every husekeeper not to permit expenditure to outgrow revenue. Evars nation's policy is, of course. liable to challeaza from another nation In that case the policy to which the other nation objects mut either bi ampped in deforense to the other ustion's abinction, or the opposition of the other Pawar will bring about either a compromis or wa The British nation bas certain ideas about its rights and their maintenane, and Bater stateamon sa present the national pride rans high, the word rale stars those ideas. A Empira is in everyone's mouth, and pubis feeling woull be deeply aroused by any veto pronounood abroad on any Eritish enterprise on which the people of this country had sat shoir minds. Statesmen no doubt are pradent, and Cautious. They will never consider as enterpris or an not of policy except in relation to their mosna for carrying it out. But suppose them to be misinformed as
their means. Such things have happened. It is quite curtain that in the autumn of 1899 no member of the Cabinet for a mameut droamed that it might become neccssary to employ four hundred theasand men to finish the war which was then about to begin,
The
the higher officials but our Japanese contem
Such misconduct may not be found among poraty make the frank statement that all the Rubordinats oficials are similarly debane Mon obtaining the insignifioiat post of revə nə olark with considerabis difialty are sent to Kores as respectable offinste under the
tilla of Zsinukwanho Asistant Revenue Ocid), No. sooner do they arrive in the peninsuls tha they banom imanised” and xvnets with dishonal locs governs, accept bribe, and
et meary from the poor people; com uitting unb evil practicas more akilfully than the native oficials. For this reason, the Kore vu s never trust these Japanem offiial. On the contrary, the fear throm na "second tigers," and bate them more than Japanese hate the plague,
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alder brothers, who ought to treat younger T fellow Mr. So Heihwa'a rewɔning when brothers kindly, act in the way this the Japan- sve do towards hair younger brothers" Kobe, moch anxiety must be felt for the future. ertaio Minister of Japan, continues the Michi, who is much cuceroad in Korban affairs recently observed that if the officials cent to Korea were of higher ohracter and more honest in their dealings, they would succeed mach batter than ten of greater capacity but low integrity. It may be difficult for men of amul| atility and talent to sokisve much in Korea, where everything is in a state of such confusion; but our Cakes contemporary thinka the best plan would be to induce the bigber Japaness officials to correct their ways and set Members of the
present Gorerament hare the subordinates a good oxample, thus gaiding given an account of what they boliem to by the the Koraans in the path of civilisation with Daval force at their disposal, Mr. Robertson, sincerity and honesty. Thus may the lower the Parliamentary Secretary for the Admiralty officials and, through them, the Korean officials, a few weeks ago emphatically atafad the opinion realise the urgent importance of government of the Government that the two-Power standard free from corruption for the security and pro- ought to be maintained and his opinion that ii|gress of the Orient-Chronicle, win foot maintained. Lord Tweedmouth bas repeatedly expressed his satisfaction with the stats and strength of the Navy. The Govern met therefors believes that it is a Navy
DEBATE ON JAPANESE 1MMIGRATION.
able to confront the Navies of two other Powers,
A debate began in the Canadian House of and they will naturally shape their policy Commons on a resolution moved by Mr. Ralph socording to that belief.
But the balinti Smith, member for Nanaimo, British Columbia. erreboona. It credits the Navy with bing that stops should be taken to restrict the influx something like twice as strong an, measured of Orientals into Cauads, and that, inasmuch as by the standard of war, it really is. must be evident that if the Government, as had
It the polier of striction of Chinese immigration successful a definite policy should We assert, greatly exaggerates the fighting he in regard to all other Orientals. strength of the Mary it may easily be led into a The resolution was aimed at the Japanese polisy which if put to the test it will not be
Mr. Stoen, member for Comox Atlin, British able to carry through. In the overestimate of Columbia, said he agreed with Sir Wilfrid the strategical power of the Navy lies a-double Laurier that the situation so far as Japan was danger, a saro first for the Government and concerned was different, and from the fast that that for the nation. The Government may at it was different and more diiselt was more any time find its viewabn some important matter dangerous, and the remedy must be more to differ from those of some foreign Government, drastic
The British Government will in such a case
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