. Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan. ports. In 1894 Japan had only 657,269 tons of mer-chant shipping; she has now upwards of a milliontons, represented by 5,200 registered vessels. Al-most half the steamers entering Japanese ports flythe flag of the Rising Sun, and Japans tonnage atthi^ time is greater than that of Russia, Austria,Sweden, Spain, Denmark or Holland. In the mat-ter of oversea tonnage, Japan is far ahead of theUnited States. One fleet of Japanese mail steam-ers, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, whose president,Rempei Kondo, is one of Japans most progres-sive men,
. Wanderings east of Suez in Ceylon, India, China and Japan. ports. In 1894 Japan had only 657,269 tons of mer-chant shipping; she has now upwards of a milliontons, represented by 5,200 registered vessels. Al-most half the steamers entering Japanese ports flythe flag of the Rising Sun, and Japans tonnage atthi^ time is greater than that of Russia, Austria,Sweden, Spain, Denmark or Holland. In the mat-ter of oversea tonnage, Japan is far ahead of theUnited States. One fleet of Japanese mail steam-ers, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, whose president,Rempei Kondo, is one of Japans most progres-sive men, is numerically and in tonnage largerthan any ocean line under the Stars and has seventy ships, aggregating 236,000 tons. Adozen of its vessels, making the service betweenYokohama and London, are fourteen-knot ships. These facts should be considered by everyAmerican complacently believing that the traflficof the countries and islands washed by the Pacificis open to American enterprise whenever we bidfor it. When Eastern trade develops in magni-. Japans Commercial Future tude, it may be found that the Japanese have laidpermanent hold upon its carriage and Bull, be it remembered, drove the Americanmerchantman from the Atlantic; and likewise Ja-pan may capture the carrying business of the Pa-cific. It must be obvious that the nation control-ling the transportation of the Far East will seek tocontrol its trade: and it is sounding no false alarmto cite facts and conditions showing that the awak-ening lands of Eastern Asia have more in store forenergetic Japan than for the United States, nowfattening inordinately on home trade—when over-production comes, as it surely will, it then may befound difficult to supplant another people in the oc-cupation of conveying American commodities toEastern markets. There are persons in the Ori-ent, none too friendly to America, who expect tosee the commercial flag of Japan paramount onthe Pacific eight or ten years henc
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