JAPAN'S RAGE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 38, 15 February 1904, Page 4

JAPAN'S RAGE.

The resentment a.ncl rage of the Japanese in bein'g thus thwarted found vent in the augmentation of their aimy ar.d nuvy, with the declared object and inlenticm of wreaking' vengeance upon what her ticians and statesinen were then plea.-.v.i to term "live western intruders into Llti* 'domain of Far Eastern- politics." About the satire time, though perhaps u little prior to it, a certain Professor Enouye, orlnou x \e, of tiio Imperial University. Tok'io, is reported to have said : —"it i.s not only necessary for us as a nation lo consider and prepare lor thv wubjug-aliivg to our l*i\vs of the neigil.'boiiijng mainland of Asia am! tUe countries bordering cm our side of tiie Paciiic, but also to ponder deeply over tl/e ways and mean.-; of how I,est eventually to bruvg (.he proud and arrogant nations oj the West to sue for mercy at our met." 'l'ali and far-fetched wouds though tiie.'.e were, they biougwt not u simile to tlw face of any uiw in his jcudieme ; at, the .Japanese papers ivporUd nothing oi I'm* kiinl ; anid Hutting that fact, anil other* together, one may re.vt aM»uml his audience approved of them, if ij rt .y did not actually iiavj perfect faith in ihem. Keulisiug at last their utter helpIt'SMi.'SS to stand against the Oeci- ; denial alow, the Ju;<uirw then communal to j;ay court to their bro-Liei-Orientals on the maiu'and to tiie Lliiiu'.sc, to the Koreans, to th« .Smniewo, and even t.u L!ie nati'.i'h of 'lii-diu,'i.utiuus anil people- for whom nil, a short lime More tlie.v never Juilod to show their contempt and hatred. »o assiduously, Jiowcver, Jill Vliey .vjidi-ess them on the lieci-s-K't\ o.f IUI Asiatic League on 11m Imsnsol racial allinity, tint Ull , M ami collog.-s j„ j u , )ail koon 1 {"""''wis of scholars from tho mainhu.d of Asia oil their book-}. A SIVA Ull ()],' SOCIKTiKS. <in« ll , S ° l ' lS r ° f a ' SSol ' in ' li <>»» antl iocictws were lormod, all with the avowed purpose of cementing the peoples and nations of (he East, so as; i 0 cimbln litem not only to si and agi.vnst the people of the V\est, I.M l e\etitu»illy to sweep them from out o( ull countries ami lands Asiatic. 'lheio was" was tlve "(Miosen Dokin rit-S'i Kyoiuii," or Korean Independence Society, aimed against Hassia ; mr.id the "Tg-a Do'lninkai," or Eastern Asia (Inc. Script Society, having' for its oib'ject. the bringing of the Mongolian ruces. Tho "Dojin-kai," or l'liilaiitliropic Society, is j.ui'hujis tJw most interesting I'iom an English point of view, for a numlx'r of its members aro natives of I'nOiu. And the Japan M:tuil, a'n altogether pio-Jujum paper, a;nd tlii-rolore not likely to overstate what mig'lit be too iiwpileasant a truth (or its friends, said with regard to one of the meetings of tine ■"Da}in-kai,"hekl in the .Nobles Club, Toikio - "Mr Dannapala (a Bwklhist priest hailing from India) also addressed the meeting, spoke strong'l.y in suj>I'ort of the entetyriiv, and expressed a hope that Japsm's philanthropic efforts would be extended to India. We may be doing Mr Dannapala ail injustice, hut his utterances seem to have a sound of ill-omen. Tl,v imprfswion they made upon us, from Uv published reports, is that iie entertains t'he idea of a Jap/uiese lii-gi-inony for t'be liberation of tho Orient from the yoke of the Occident." The «:«!»-]yci|is heiv all'oi'detl are meant to hlmw tho cli>\en hoof of Japan ; t'nat, dvs|/ite all her pratiiign aliout a desire for [ivaee, she is working silently, lint Purely, to secure tliie ix-alisai ion of her "ideal" —of Asia for tho Asiatics, though, I vt'h'a] *■, it wonl(! lie more correct to say, of Asia for tile Japanese. .lust wlmt t 'ither would in.-an there cunnot be the slightest doubt, consideriJUg 11..' general state of civilisation in Asia.