I do not mean to be depressing nor am 1 pro-Japanese, but I do think we must face facts and read the writing on the wall; and the fact in this case is that these people, due to their less expensive ways of living and better understanding of the people, are bound to create a competition which will' be altogether too keen for the ordinary European and American merchant.
Furthermore, the two nations are very closely connected and, if the ordinary masses are happy, the enmity existing will soon be forgotten. The coolie earns about thirty cents a gay and whether he receives it from. one side. or the other makes little: difference: to: him—just so long as.lip does receive N. Even now you see the Japanese soldiers sitting round talking and joking with the ordinary people. As regards the upper classes, T must say they appear io be only lukewarm and look upon the war as something apart I do not know one single instance where any able-bodied man of these so-called upper classes has gone off to fight* for. his country:
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