The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-08-07
Jour OVERSEAS MEN,
ny
Rudyard KipIing.
bpptsM 1892. BY u. Asihor.
FART II.

Diet Both Houses accused the Goyernment
oiimpropcr intcrferencs--this Is Japanese for
plenty stick and some bank note"-at tho
recent elections, They thcn did what was
equivalent TO passing vote OF censure on the
Ministry and refusing to vote Government
measures. 80 far the widest advocate Of
representative Government could have desired
nothing better. Attcrward things took a dis.
tinctly Oriental turn. The Ministry refused
to resign, and the Mikado proro2ued tho Diet
| for week to think things over. Tho Japa-
neso papers arc now at Issue over tho event
Somo say that representative Government i'm.
plies party Government and others swear at
| large. The Overseas Club says for tho most
part. "Skittles"
1t is a picturesque situaton-one that sug-
gests romances aud extravaganzas. Thus.
imagine a dreaming Court intrenched behind
triple limo OF meats where the lotus blooms
in summer-a Court whose outer fringe is ag-
excessively European. but whose heart is ia
pan OF long ago. where dreaming King sits
among somo wives or other things. amused
| from time to time with magic lantern shows
and performing heas-a holy King whose
sanctity is used to conuro with. and who
twice year gives garden parties where every
ono must come in top hat and frock coat.
Round this Court. wavering between tho
| splendors OF tho sleeping and the variety
| shows OF tho Crystal Palace. place in
furious but carefully yelled antaRo-
nism tho fragments OF newly shattered
castles. their natural Oriental ecccntricities
overlaid with borrowed Western notions.
Imagine. now. large and hungry bureau
cracy. French in its fretful insistence on de-
tail where detail is OF no earthly moment.
Oriental In its stress on etiquette and pune.
tito. recruited from n military caste accus-
toned Tor ages past to despise alike farmer
n"a f Ths ssss viii T.
o h to the Tfqrp e
by no Western prejudice in favor Of carrying
any Ep lnp to It's Through and q
these acts exists wildcat Press. liable to
senstivs to OUTSIDE cresm as AZ aa hmersan
and almost us chldishly untruthful. fungoid
tue Of its growth "Ps "a tbs
Lress in It's wilder moments awless ignorant.
IN hs at and
a thorn in the side Of, the State. judges with
out training handle laws without precedents.
With almost inconeeivptie sf eyty Out Of the
tWeter Of classes and Interests that are not
called Japanese policy; that has the proper
ti9}n and perspective q Japanese picture.
councils To-day. for reasons mono can eS-
plain. it is prQ-forcign to the verge Of servity.
pendulum swings back. andNthe students are are
heaving mud ut tho foreigners in the streets.
vexatiops, irresponsible. incohersnt. and.
The and H. BY intrigue and counter in
European lines and light @ vt throW S
eside: studded as bower birds run is stud
wh ss dm Sn shining pebbles Nth
OF so tho XII King among his wives, samnrai police
id;;goyed cavalry officers, from st. Cyr Judges
with university degrees. harots with iddIes.
cent ceremonies Of the land. paid members
Of, the Diet. secret societies that borrow the
S Dsns ns o sh ESaep %,
and Whiting for what may turn up. with min:
l Iaer o. 9TH the syndicate who have wrenched
circle flicker. shift. and reform In bewilder-
I'M ing rings; round ths foreign resident is tho
Somewhere In the background Of the stage
are the people Of the land.-of whom a very
representative Government, Whether in the
past Few years they have learned what the
sntio9 to make any uss Of it. is IS not Ae Clear
Meantime the game Of Government goes for
N ,ns
rS what in the WGrh it intends to DO In Tokio
ropeans employed by the Emperor as en-
r aaG the
country wiz set forth among the nations alone
IN my years then, from the time that tho
intrusive, American first broke her peace.
organized from sandal to top.knot. play the
Sn,niisen in tho march OF modern progress.
the New Era When ndvdSa and D co% 1Hrn mtg
without work. education without Ell 'rt. re-
without slow and bitter toll. ~ '''e' ''-'A'
The Overseas Club. as has been said. is be-
what 1t gets. and it does not always get what
it works for. Nor can it's members take ship
the &sn e'X 81 nina SS That IS
6Fed IN nam man 9 ,, the perpetual eontempati9n
ea% rank Of hansoms Ths weather is '! lot. we
WI sMppottSS something has gene wrong with
looking so well as might be-. Pretty tiled
bungalows bowered in roses and wstaria do
not console him. and the voices Of the poest
soul in the club, has thoroughly talked out
every subject OF interest. and would give haIfa
Ing breath OF air that has lite in it, ono shin Of
the hayinE az Grass or laIf e mile o. muddy
out across the staring blue Of the bay 50:
waeR BY the her. F Fa ip mail He H si' fIs
alone i seems to him. must stay on; and il j.,
himself. The boats smoke dies out along
tho horSon and he is g., left ln,,t alone with
the B B Now Now Janan IS 50 woo good Place
place that men swear by. and live IN for
thirty years Mt Il stretch. There are China
. ports weeks sail to the westward whore life
is rea " hard. anh W here the sight Of the rest
lass shipping really hurts very much indeed.
Tourists and you who travel tho world over be
gentle to the mon, Of the Oyersaa, Clubs. Re.
com" out here Tor the good OF their health,
and hat thn return ticket in your wallet may
possibly n little color your views Of their land.
Perhaps it would not TO altogether wise on
th" strength of much kindness from
many Japanese officials to recommend
tnu' these your count rympn ne unndeu
lock. stock. and barrel to II people that are be-
ginning to- experiment with fresh d RATED.
halfgraitrd codes whichd not include jurcs.
to II sy,tcm that does not contnml plato FREQ
press. to n suspicious absolutsm from which
csting. but ~ truly It might begin in. farce
and end in tragedy. that would leave the po-
litost nrDplo on earth In no ease to play at
civilized government for u long time To come.
In his ronressinn' whore he Is an apologetic
resident does No harm. lie does not always
sue for money due to him on the part OF a