The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1876-07-09
cENEENNIAL ca1zzoEeal.
WHAT THE JAPANESE CoMMIssIoxER HAS no
SAY ABOUT OUR SHOW AND OUR PEOPLE.

to the Centennial being recently Interview
ed by an enterprising reporter said that he
and bis coad5ators were somewhat disap.
pointed with the Exhibition, for they had
expected much which they did not find, aud
found much which they did not expect: but
they agreed that it is certainly q grand af-
fair on the wholes and one of which America
may, on many accounts, well be proud II
must be acknowledged, however, that the
Vienna Exposition was superior in most o.
Ito features to the present one, especially
so in matters Of art and virtue; but the
Philadelphia showing OF inventions and
machinery is vastly the beeE--the only de-
partments in which we excel. The SWed-
ish section is perhaps the most praised for
it's completeness aud order and certainly
gives great credit 5irs organizers.
Referring to the number of visitors, Mr.
Fukni said: "The first day crowds come like
sheep; run here, run there, run everywhere.
One man start, 900 follow. Nobody can
SEQ anything, nobody can do anything. All
rush, push, tear, shout, make plenty noise.
and go homo. That day and every day
police no good plenty policemen in corn
ers, doors, halls |; plenty outside buildings,
plenty inside: all have banda 10 pockets ;
not one know anything; NO matter what
you ask, he say, Don't know : and that
true, he don't know, not have try TO know.
Have sign everywhere Don't handle any
snAAS , eSsA ouO ses1sOe ONOAy cV0y u~1AAC
everything. We lose great many curios.
email bronzes, ivory carvings, lacquer
boxes, fine porcelain and little pictares !;
tell police, pat their hand little deeper In
pocket and cay, 'Don'e know We must
take these things back, but have not got
as though hari kari were in store for him.
On being asked what particular object
pleased them best in this country both gem
tlemen giggled consciously looked at each
ether and then replied in one voice, "Amer-
lean women very nice," one of them re-
marking farther that the ladies were the
most remarkable exhibition at the Centen-
at by the crowd moro than were the dumb
works Of art. New York did not please
them. on account of it's noise and bustle,
but they were filed with admiration by the
public buildings in Washington.
With regard to the Japanese students in
America, they said that com mparativeiy few
were sent by the Government, as the large
majority came at their own expense. The
Government pupils are generally third year
students of the Yedao University, and have
passed examination on the highest subjects
taught in our colleges. The regular grSd
uating course in the Government Univer-
sity requires four years the matriculatipg
being about the same as that
OF Harvard or Yale; but they press our four
years course into the fret three years of
theirs, devoting the remainder of the term
to higher grades of mathematics than we
as a rule teach. 10 Japan there are three
classes of schools as with us-the common
school, the high school OF academy, and
the university. In most of the second class,
military tactics are taught to a greater or
less extent, and there is one large institu-
tion similar to our Naval Academy. Lsngu-
ages are bat little taught in the minor
schools, but there is college in Yeddo ex-
MI ~ Anuofod t<Nf fhia branch s,f AdnNa-
ton. In the same city there is what we
call normal school, intended for the pre-
parstion of teschers only. The u0iversity
includes, among it's other branches, schools
of law, of civil and of mechanical engineer
ing. In Japan every one, even in the low
est classes of society, reads and writes ho-
emily, and there are students whom they
would not be ashamed to put against oar
masters of arts.
Considering that he had taxed their pa
thence to the full, the reporter arose to say
his adieux, when one of tue gentlemen
smilingly remarked that as be had inter
viewed them, they would in turn like to
apply the inQuisitorial corkscrew. Feeling
that this was no more than fair, he smilingly
to the ordeal. The first Ques-
tions propounded were What does politics
meanf Why are there two parties, about
equally divided, in q republicf Where did
these parties get their names, and what is
can and Democrat What do the different
parties want to accomplish, and how is it
that SO many millions of educated people
can disagree totally as to the proper way to
manage free government Have the peo-
pie who lose an election nothing to say
about the control of their own property, or
as TO how they shall be taxed, or are they,
in fact, subject entirely to the winning side
When these and a dozen similar jaw break
ing questions had been answered 60 tae
best of the poor scribe's ability, Mr.. TOda
remarked: al cannot understand your
polite. Suppose you Democrat, Repub
done the people good; everybody knows
you best man we try for President; all
Democrat vote for you; all Republican
say you best man, but all Republican vote
for me; more Republican than Democrat |;
/ get President, you get nothing. Bows
Ehat7 Why don't everybody waD Il best man
when they can have il when they want z"
When this twister was disposed of Mr..
Fokui closed the interview by saying: " A
republic is grand idea. The people can