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ARE THE JAPANESE A LA ÎN

ABIDING PEOPLE?

A

Since the tendency to take advantage of modern ideas of free speech, and their inevita. ble commitant os free action. bas become eamspicuous, there are in Japan namie akable indications of a growing disregard for authority. In the old days even the suggestion of such a mot with instant datb; the saurai thing was conid strikto.off the heat of his impagner at blow, and there was no one to question his right to do so. With the removal of fear as a

restraining

ning factor there was nothing but tradition left to keep intact the social organism, so that it will naturally take Japanese society some time to adjust itself to the new conditions. As Fat tradition is much more reverenced and respects itself is somewhat in dread of the There are even signs that authority massos: officers at time appear to bow to the threats of the mob.

than law.

In Kobe some time ago two coolies whom forelguer had dismissed from his service

ta as apsatisfactory came

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The alarming recurrence of rioting in th Japanese capital during last autumn capsed Buy to ask whether, after all, the old notion that the natives of Nippon are the most law

in the world had suficient abiding people ground for credibility. There are many ex. aggerated and fanciful statements and super drial generalisations afloat about Japan; ia interesting to ask whether this is one of them, says a writer in the Pall Mall Gareth

It is doubtless the experience of nearly all

in this

that country Rojourners Japanese crowd is the most good-natured and the Jeant turbulent assemblage of to be found anywhere in the mortals world, and it is noticeable that dine respecta is freely accorded police officers and others in

Avortly afterwards ad anthority; but traditional deference to superiors

demanded reinstatement with higher and guardians of the peace is not dificult to

The man att

aturally showed them about yield when there is nothing to fight for uor be

their busip98 But they read their way angry about the test of a people's balance of character demes when great wrongs are flaunted into the house, shied a wooden sloe at his and the temptation to extremes is well nigh wife which would bare reunited fatally hind irresistible. How does the Japanese citizen the sim been a trifl: mora sare--and the whole I deport bimself under conditions such as these?

family were in danger of their lives until One cannot but confess that, with the spread the arrival of the police, who piscal the of Westera notions of liberty and individualism, offenders under arrest. But a mob of coolies there appears to be less regard than formerly demanded the release of their comrades, and for the powers that be The savage and the foreigner was advised not to prosente And be destraalise rioting that followed the cuzclasica the men who had threatened his life. of peace with Russia more than a year ago was so afraid of the mousegasson should he and the like unseemly behaviour in Tokyo flow up the course of the law that he reind Iu any other entry the recently, go far to shake the old conviction that to the advies the Japanese are, in the ultimate analysis, mire scoundrels would have been punished indeper- dently of the victims they bad tried to injure, law-abiding than other nationalities.

The recent riots were ostensibly a demos for it is almost a waiversal procedure on the stration against the electric tramcar companies part of the representatives of the is never

coudoue

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alteript to protest against the fare being raised from to

Murder Le A frequent occurrence four to five sen, and the crowd wished to life. influence the city officials against permitting in Japan, and, strange to relata, it is this increase of fare. But the real cause was nearly always the villain who gets killed. of a more esoteric nature. The riote that Westeru civilisation brings to Japan its vies ensued were not da quite so large a seal as as well as its virtues, and the social problems of those over the unsatisfactors terms of peace. La country will be growing increasingly Then bndreds of citizens and many police as time gees on, they ariat now, were the moral some of them fatally, and agreat consciousness of the nation sefficiently developed deal of said in mitigation of the outrage, at the time, that the mob, in meeting to display its results grievances, did not for a moment. either the violence or the diastoleplate which followed. But no mob ever does They meet to parade their troubles, but when the demonstration leads to violence and outrage against persons sad property it is

to say that there had been no intention of resorting to this method of emphasising views, and that it was merely an incident, and not au essential, of the demonstration. There is always danger that su infuriated crowd may be carried away by the heat of the moment, and a Japanese mol seems not less immune to this danger than any other. Indeed, in the recent riots there appear to have been no extenuating cirenastances at all. The tram companies raised the fare. The mob, spurred on by irresponsible mountsbanka gathered about the cars. and car-baren, and proceeded to stons the passengere, ruotar man, conductors, and other employees of the company smash the cars in a und as well endeavour to interrupt and disorganise traffic generally. So tremendous was the unappeasahe fury of the mob that the militia had to be called out to reinforce the police, and it was not until after some days of resines and danger, fororing many arrests that regular traffic could be resumed by the electric cars.

serious

were wound se done to property. It was to recoguise them, hat when the nation has to i

slim 3

excuse

face them, not least among them will be how to duly restrain the impulsive ignoroace that now awaiting but a wind to fan it to the confingra- smokers in the masses of the population, tion of its medieval days.

Here we have a cation of some Alty millions of people ant more than two millious of thera have been touched by the new Iarning: the rast mass of the population is yat 500 years behind the modern world in mental and spiritual are particularly in development. The changes to a rate to the clties, and often at se

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JAPAN AND THE UNITED STATES."

opinions Notwithstanding the

e fruly expressed on the Continent that war is immin- ent. between the United States and Japan, it is happily still safe to say that neither party is in any hurry to throw down the gauntlet, and that in certain quarters where it would appear that the ish is undoubtedly father to the thought profound disappointment is positively rare to

accrue.

•

cause a strain the social body of which the

Procisely why the stormy patrels of Asiatic politics should bay the saree with a matter people are members: hence a reaction is more or less marked degree is sure to come. Forced plauta sangat be depended up for that is so obviously unrips for discuss oa is as the same resulta as those saturally grow, profound a mystery to us as erer, the only gleam of light that now and then issed upon the That was not Brat which is spiritual, but

prevailing obscurity being due so the unskil and afterward that That which is notarai. which is spirítani. Ret whether natural, fulness of the magazine writers and others who as it doubtless often is az foceed, as in more clumsily betray their secret whenever they

would he 16 "gat hy frequently the case, the development is going exhibit their anim site towards the peoples

As

of the ommentatora on. What we are apt to forget is that Japan whom they

the "coming is not yet all maden, nor will she be for a co-

war has just said: siderable time. This is aither remarkable ou nor discouraging: it required 500 years to Whover his two oppousals to four will Christiauise England. The Japanese Givern- ndeavour to incite one wrist the other, and If the United States und cna breathe fredy." ment is Occidental; it is the bead and brain of when both returs with being head the third the nation; but the heart of Japan is the mass of yet unenightered millions who are stil!, and Japan will only be so obliging as to maal one The another savagely enough to ensure that one or will continue to be, jealously Oriental, cry of sack expiring generation for pears to both shall be hars de combat for a spell there comenill be Goethe's err: Light More light." may be opportunities, perhaps, for some of the onlookers to rearrange territorial aire to their own satisfaction."

FRANCE AND SIAM.

IMPORTANT KRW TREATY SIGNED AT

BANGKOK.

The Bangkok Times has mesired the follow ior cumaniqué from Mr. Edward H. Strobel, the General Adviser to his Majesty

JR.

019

It is autecessary to say that these ramcar outrages were neither sided nor abetted by

But there is respectable Japanese citizens. large clasa in Tokyo, represented by jisricksha

As far as Jap is mincerned there is not the slightest likelihood, however, that she will be men and other coolies, whose employment was seriously lessated by the introduction of the

enger to provide her share of an expensive enter- tainment over which interested nations might tram system, and who are therefore saly too

ehnokla. At one moment we are told that the ready to grasp every opportunity afforded them of injuring the electric tram companies: tor is

Japines people are starving, at another that such

a thing now in Japan, for under the old

we are in overwhelming peed of expansion, that set of men régime there was always on hand

we are ready to engage in any desperat - enter- cailed

who were the tools of politically King of Siam:-

A treaty btween Siam and France was

battier,"

When Kurland wants her ally or socially disgrauited persons, to revenge signal on Saturde, at Bangkok, by the Minister pris, sut even that we are fighting Fogland's fancied

or real wrongs. It is said that during of Foreign Affairs of Siam and the French assistance most surely Tepan will be prepared the recent riots in Tokyo there were some un- Minister

instantly to strike as lusty a blow on her friend's principled politicians who actually paid the "The objaes of the treaty is, first, to provide babalf an Togo's Navy an Ogama's Army are inaders of these rough to store the cars and for un exchange of territories, and, second. together capable of bet the brizan obstrust the tracks, just to oven up did scores to make important modifications in the system with the city eorporation

property.

The Siamess Coverawont cedos to Franca the provinces of Battambour, Siemreap and isophon, and the French. Gerarament caden to Siara Danzai and the province of Krat, and the adept islands.

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at

a storm of sufficient severity to call

forth united action of the kind indicated.

A riotons mob is pretty much the am kind of territoriality of French Asiatic subjects present devoid of such dark clouds as might

and protégés; in return for their having equal presage of phenomenon, no matter what garb of vation rights with Siamese subjects in balding of ality it weara; ya upe is bound to say that Japanese mot Appears to display certain in- dividual characteristics that are all its own. Circumstances or incidents which would cause the most livid and salpharous aguage tow from the lips of the average Occidental do not even ripple the composure of the Japanese. He simply dismisses the unpleasatores with the tims-word Japanese please that sovers multitude of sins: Shi kati ga nai" (It can be helped. But about every Japanese crowd, as well as individual, there is a vagas and tender spot, which, if once touched, causes the elemental passions of savagery to blaza out with extraordinary fierceness that stops at nothing. and that nothing can stop. Thus it that this man whom the most trying ills of contaon nd all the Asiatic subjects and protégés of Japan and the United States. Thu ronts to be never cause to fret or tome in useless experti

likely

b that of the mailboats to and from Japan the ordinars Siamese Courts. The position of tare of verrous energy becomes an invisible France will be subject to the jurisdiction of fallowel by Admiral Ijain's cruisers will most as far as Gibraltar, and thence across the Atlan- soldier when his blond is stirred by an enemy oo

French Asiatic enbi-ets and protégés in Siam tie to Jamestown. the field of battle, where he esinee fighting will be the same as that of Siases apbjonts, as One of the oddest fansies to which the war quality unsurpassed by the warriors of any other regards the ownership of property and the talk has given rise is that Japan wants the

payment of ordinary taxes,

In regard to the Californian matter, œuure- over, the resources of diplomacy are as yet by Do thus exhausted. Before the trouble at San it is understood, to send a Japanese squadron Francisco b-gan it had been in contemplation, across the Paells to pay a brief visit to the All French Asiatic mobjects and provizey Golden Gate on the way to Jamestown, to take part in the great international naval assembly register in the Consuite of France after the

By reason of the warmth of feeling engendered date of this treaty will be subject to the

over the scholastic disagreement it has byS jurisdiction of the ordinary Siamese Courts

decided at Tokyo to out out the visit to San All suals subjects and protegis at present Francisco from the programme, for prudential reasons, but the squadron is going to James. International Courta now in force in the north. registered wil ha enbjart to the austera of the

tore all the sau under Admiral Finio, and Such Taferuational Charts will be established this. fact is certainly not indicative of any imme. When the Siamese Codes dinte change in the am cable relationship of published this distinction will disappear.

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