CLASSES AND MASSES IN JAPAN.

Lake County Press, Issue 2116, 3 May 1906, Page 7

CLASSES AND MASSES IN JAPAN.

! The extraordinary qualities shown li.v tin" .Japanese dun'm.; the late war j led Ihe world to look nil them as i sii|u'i°liiiinari. 'l'liis illusion lias I n | dispelled In lII,' riots over the react 1 j Treaty. They are very Hindi as oilier j iuil ions, lull Ihe jjiili' lid ween Ihe e,oveniine; (lasses and Hie masses | seems io he much wider ilian it is in j !I he West, The sense of discipline I ! and senilis for pat riot ism of !t he people as a whole have | I heen directed lo jj'ival net ional ends | lie a I'i'w iim'H of coiiMHiniia t e ability,. I I This is not to del ract from I iie splendid aehievments of anr Allies ; I it is merely all attempt lo see things I as lhe,\ are. Our weaknesses are written in our history so that, he I who runs may read. lint .lapan is. I i pracl iralh speakine, a sealed hook j I 1 o Ihe a \ ei'ai;e Klllpocail. It is j I I herefore iu.sl as well for us to rea- | lise Iha t she is no more armed at all j points than we a re. Tha I her e., mil ! sense will soon lead her lo recognise the wisdom of her statesmen is rer- ! I tain. Hut with I In- rememhratire of j I Ihe Treaty of Shiiuonoseki fresh in I . her mind aml a n i inperl'eel account of | Defoliations at fori smout hj, ii is no I | wonder thai feeling rose to fever ; pitch. In some rpiarlers there is a I tendency to just if.v ihe anirer of the | populace rat her I han I he foresight of j Ih- Mikado and his ail', isers, and to ! predict another war was on a similar scale. Now. while mamiai)itint,\ is a mistake, it can sometimes lie defcndi eel on liiuu political urmind.' . That | the Mikado is slave to an idea is abI surd llf act I'd with moderal ion |>ei cause lie I houe;ht t hal his i oiinl n s j intei est s deimi tided it (tut in his |ci icuiust a imvs such an attitude of I mind \\ iis an honour to him all I lie same. lie mijjn have hj. Id out for an ilideinilitx , hut lo secure it 'he value of it w i mid I"' w list ed i n money and men . Moreov it, wi t hj ,r\ cry mont hj that passed fussia's Uhil il ,\ to |iii.\ w oulil irrow less. finailv .lapan lias won all lli.il she wiinted and revealed moral trieiil liess of the hr:- I 01 der. I I was Ho part of h"r object to break dow 11 Ihe 11 us- ia n's i ie| i.'f i a her in \ uluernbilil.v to crush m:; ilefat I hat has irrown up h\ Kuropeuu supi Mess, and can lie desl need ~, ! hv Kiiropean coiiinec. 11,.. : hndov of |{ussia will ii.-M-r lav over the far first as ii once lav . li.r.ius ■ .1 ~..an has tie list rated her rie.h: .o ~ place iii ilf inner ci • -«-1. - of llf I'.i'.' el '-. and the a". a!- eniifj, . I ( "'linn under her euidam e. mm : !,e reck d wii ii as a fart or in the pol il i. a I situal ion "- -' Uroad \i row "