Japan regards the immigration problem as something more than a question for her or for any one nation, as a matter that should concern humanity. It may be that she will find some measure of relief in the new fields being opened up in Manchuria, Siberia, and Saghalien; but the Japanese are not naturally a northern people; they do not like a climate of low temperature, and so are not likely to immigrate in any considerable number northwards unless there is abnormal profit in it, and even then but temporarily. After the forests and mines are fully exploited it is improbable that the Japanese will care to remain. Moreover, in the view of Japan, this policy would but retard for centuries lone)" the evolutionary process thai must needs bring East and West together if humanity is to attain ultimate unity and its highest development. The longer that blending of the higher races is delayed the greater will be the clash, she holds, when they are forced to meet by sheer congestion. A harmonious intermingling of East and West by gradual immigration would ensure a more leaman result.
Mercuants in Canton have decided to celebrate New Year by having a procession urging the purchase and use of native goods.
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