Formerly the manager of the retail store of Marshall Field & Co., who is now establishing a big department store in London at an outlay of $4,000,000 Member of Congress from Illinois. Mr. Lowden began his career by working on a farm to earn money for his education. He is director in various corporations as well as a member of the Boards of Trustees of several educational institutions Philippine Commissioner to the United States from the Philippines, who is endeavoring to have the tariff upon Filipino products removed. It is his opinion that trade between the United States and the islands would be benefited annually to the extent of $150,000,000. Mr. Legarda, who in February received his right to speak upon the floor of Congress, is not in favor of Filipino independence at the present time A former student of the Art Institute of Chicago who has made a national reputation as a sculptor. She has recently been commissioned by the government to execute bronze doors for the chapel of the Naval Academy at Annapolis See the article on page 526 EVENTS OF THE MONTH Foreign Affairs The difficulty between Japan and China over the seizure by Chinese customs officials of the Tatsu, a Japa China Checkmates Japan nese steamer loaded with arms and ammunition, has been settled, on the whole with the larger advantage accruing to China. It is true that the vessel has been returned to Japan, and that the Japanese flag upon it has been saluted by a Chinese war-ship; that China is to purchase the munitions of war captured on the steamer, and that China's foreign office has apologized to Japan for the seizure of the vessel. But all this is but a technical victory for Japan. The main purpose of the action. on the part of China has been accomplished. The attention of the powers has been called to the high-handed operations of Japan in shipping ammunition and arms to Chinese rebels. What is more, Japan has agreed to exercise strict control over the exportation of arms to China. This action of the Chinese government, together with a boycott which has been The instigated against JapaNew Spirit nese goods, is an indicain China tion of the new spirit that is coming over the Chinese empire. At the close of the Russo-Japanese War, Japan was regarded the head of the Asiatic world. During the past year or two, however, China has been awakening fully as rapidly as ever did Japan. Reform has been steadily progressing, and what is quite as important, a new national spirit is being developed. Those who are furthering this condition of affairs view with apprehension the policy of Japan in Manchuria as interpreted by the fate of Korea. China, while more cautious than Japan in taking up western civilization, is after all the country of incalculably greater resources. The Tatsu affair is simply a straw showing the direction the wind is blowing. China does not propose to be subservient to Japan. The next fivé years will show that its determination is justified. Anti-Japanese Spirit in Korea The growing spirit of hostility against Japan among Asiatics gets a further illustration from the assassination of Hon. Durham W. Stevens, the American acting as advisor of the Japanese in Korea, by Koreans in San Francisco. The ground for such an act was the alleged unfriendliness of Mr. Stevens to the Koreans in that he approved and forwarded the Japanese administration in their unhappy country. The same motive of hostility to Japan was in the attack by Koreans in Seoul upon a missionary who was suspected of favoring Japan. None the less, subject to criticism on legal grounds as Japan's treatment of Korea is, its policy there is probably the one hope of the degenerate nation it has appropriated. "You'd better stop your teasing, boy!" Donahey, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer |