Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-28

Rapid Progress In Clvilization-The Younc
SOTeret1n.

Rapid Progress In Clvilization-Ihe Young
Sovereign.
No monarch, and very few private
persons, can have led life of higher.
more intense, and more absorbing inter
est than the young man who, in 1868,
when but 16. found himself NIikado
of Japan, with the ancient but long
dormant rights of sole and supreme
ruler restored to that Office. By fort
innate chance the purple fell, in his
case, on one well fitted to wear It. and
the work done in Japan in which he has
taken an active and intelligent share in
fourteen years has been enormous. Be-
tween 1869 and 1871 the Daimios, the
great feudal Princes, were, with the ex-
ception of the clan Satsuma rad
ically subdued until 1877, whose chief
was the mighty Saigo-denuded of their
power. they and their military retainers
receiving pecuniary compensation. In
1873 all classes Of able bodied men were
rendered liable to CONSUMPTION in the
imperial army. This army. organized
by Frenchmen, has now for nearly ten
years been in high state of efficiency
Its West Point, conducted chiefly on
the pattern of that establishment. is
Toyama, near Toxic. The total mill
tary force is 10000. The Japan
csc navy is on the model of the British.
1t includes twenty war vessels, nineteen
being steamships. National education
on the new model dates from 1871. By
1873 the Government schools had over
goo, 900 pupils. To-day they have over
100000. Toxic University has nearly
1900. One we'll acquainted with
japanese pupils says that Hintellectu-
ally they are on the average equal of
those of Europe or America, while in
the gentler virtues Of respect. docility.
industry, politeness and self-control
they are unquestionably the superior"
A prevailing feature among this peo-
pie, and one which strikes even the least
observant, is the almost exasperatingly
sweet temper. It is well-nigh impossi-
BILE to make them angry, and lady,
long resident in Japan. says it is really
true that Japanese children are scarcely
ever heard to cry. This celestial condi-
tion in the nursery is not produced by
dhe soothing sirups of Japanese Pink
slow, but is the result of the tact of the
Observation-Disclosures old men. The
postoffice is another of the nations
triumphs. A mole-hill has in ten years
grown into mountain. The railroads,
though not numerous, are cheap and pay
well. They are now chiefly superintend-
ed and worked by natives Accidents are
almost unknown. From half mile in
September, 1869, the telegraph lines
have grown to 1000 miles, worked by
1900 employees, af whom ten only are
foreigners. It would be we'll for this
country if its jails we're but in half as
satisfactory plight as are those of Japan,
and in this matter Japan has borrowed
but little from the foreigner. The most
minute precautions are taken to prevent
abuse of authority by prison officials
The Governor of Jail may infiict no
punishment more severe than the dark
cell or shackles, and this but for a
strictly limited period, without the sane.
ton of district court. This system il
carried cut with as much strictness in
the most remote provinces as in the
capital. The vast system thus in little
more than ten years created is directed
md controlled by Cabinet of thirteen
over which the Mikado vigilantly pre-
sides, assisted by Council of the ablest
and best-informed men, who give advice
and attend to the details of enactments
made by the Cabinet. Provincial Assem-
bles have existed since 1873, and nation
al parliamentary government is to be
the order Of the day.