16th June.
'THE May issue of this always interesting journal is a very full one. In the first note of his "Curr Comment, Mr. Foord shows himself! a very trustworthy prophet. His subject is the then impending fight between the Japanese and Russian ets, and his foréca t might almost hive been written after the even'.
Mr. Foord say-: "Confi lence as 'o the ultimate is-u> of this struggle need not re-t on a blind frith in Japanese luck, Ample ground for it may be discovered in the g ulus for naval Warfare of the Jap"nese ¢-inman ler, the prow d abi ity of his officers, and. the perfect discipline and. train ug of his crews, xs opp sed to u conspicuous ack of all these advantages on the side of the en my. Tne snyerior weight of the Russimn broadside must be regarded asa very inane quate offset to he rain lick of recision with which it will be h d'ed, and the probable lack of capacity direct, with any chance of ssu the movements of a flotilla as incongruous in composition as is is impressive in siz."
Tu his s-cond note, Mr. Fuord draws attention to the great increase in Americwn exports to Chins and Japan; and he has then seme remarks on Dr. Morr'son's recent account in the "Times" of the wonderful transformation that ha taken plice in Corea since Japan undertook the guidon-e of its destinies, His fourth note, on the Chinese Exclusion question, ica very intere ting one. Mr. Foord says that both Pre-id ut Roosevelt and Secretary Hay are prepar d to proa liberal treaty with China, such as the latter country can accept: without loss of self resp ct, and in th's they were assisted by Mr. Garfield, the head of the Bureau of Corporations in the D2partmont of Commerce and labour. Stronger, however, than all these influence appears to have been the Trads Union fanaticism in regard to the n of Chinamen which dominates the Bureau of Immigration of the Department of Commerc and Labour, and which s: ems to be shared by the gentleman from California who is at the head of that department. Under such circumstances, the abandonment of th-negotiation of a new treaty of immigration with China to take the place of that which expired last December, is nothing short of a confession on the yarr of the Government of the United States that it cannot afford to brave the hostility of a parcel of demagogues, The only hope for securing decent treatment to Chinese merchants, students, and travellers for plea-ure visiing this country appears to be for the commercial ints rests which. are most likely to suffer from the illiterality of the resent system, fo undertake a systematic agitation to compel the authorities at Washington to consult in this matter the plain dictates of commonsense and justice." It is understood that the ques'ion'is now in the hands of Mr. Rockhill, the new American Minister at Peking, and he way be trusted to find a way to reconcile the divergent views of the Chinese and the Californis Trade Unions, if indeed any reconciliation is possible. Mr. Foord's concluding note deals with the tariff imposed by the United Staies on goods from its depende ey, the Philippines, The following comparative table shows the value, in gold dollars, of the exports of staples from the Uniet S ates to China ant Hongkong in th. nine months ending March $1, 1904 a: d 1905
To China Cotton Mineral Wheat cloths,. flour. 1904... 3,197,838 3,761,643 234,847 1905...18,022,471 6,298,950 203,678
1904... 42,645 1,471,281 4,609,860 19 58,050 1,805,226 3,493,104 It is probable that the value of cotton goods exported £ om the U.S. to China in the fiscal year ending on the 30h of this month will riot be Jess than 25,000,000 gold, a sum hitherto without cxump'e in the history of this trade.
The following table shows the value, in gold dollars, of the imports of tea an! sik into the U S. in the nine months ending Murch 31, 1903, 1904, and 1905 1903.
1904. 1906. Tea......14,174;887 16,621,484 14,754,073 Rawsilk 40,884,307 32,954,447 45,182,664 A full account is given of the annual dinner in Murch: last of the Amirican Asiatic. A-soc'a'ion of Japan. Then under the beading, District Court of the United States for China and Gore:," we find reprinted thy "Message from the President of the United S ates (to Congress), transmitting a report by the Secretary of State concerning the importance of reform in our extraterritorial judicial sy-tem in China and Core, including a draft of en act providing for the es'ablishment of a district Court of the United Star-s for China and Corea." The documents include Secretary Hay's dispatch so the President, the draft enactment proposed, and an extract from the report upon the tour of consular inspretion in Asia made by Mr. H. H.D. Peirce, Third Assistant Secretary of State, last year, Mr. John Hay in his dispatch points out that the Amerion Consuls.in China and Corea are not trained
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