Sketches from Formosa.

286 SKETCHES FROM FORMOSA
currency introduced, with parliamentary representation,
upright officials, skilled native doctors, newspapers, and
cessation of work every seventh day in all Government
offices. Of course, too, there will be things to vex the
soul of the European merchant and the ardent Christian
missionary ;
but patience must be exercised, and great
things still expected from such a people as the Japanese
have proved themselves to be. The movements of
population under the new order of things
will be inter-
esting, and be likely to appear in (a) the departure of
many Chinese from Formosa ; (b) steady increase in the
number of Japanese immigrants ; and (c) in the result
of civilizing influences brought to bear on all the non-
Chinese-speaking tribes. These and other details make
up a problem of first-class importance, and one cannot
but accompany Japan with gentle wishes through this
critical, yet very hopeful, period of her history.