The San Francisco call., 1896-07-08
TRANSLATED FOR
THE JAP PANESE.
Latest Pamphlet On Pro-
portional Representa-
tion.
THE REFORM IN JAPAN.
Alfred Cridge Receives an En-
couraging Letter From
Toxic.
GOOD OUTLOOK IN THE ORIENT.
The Single-Tax Propaganda Also Max.
ing Great Progress in
Japan.
sooD OUTLOOK IN THE ORIENT.

Alfred Cridge of this City, one of the
earliest believers In proportional repre-
sentation in this country and pioneer
advocate of the reform, has recently re-
ceived encouraging word from far across
the sea in the land of the Mikado. Charles
E. Gorst, an enthusiastic believer in pro-
portional representation and the single
tax, writes from Toxic the following in
teresting account of the progress of the
cause in Japan:
IA, TsUKIJI (Tokio). June II, 1896.
Dear Mr.. CTtdge: 1t gives me extreme pleas
ure to send To you three copies OF Proportional
Representation in Japanese. 1t is the joint
work of Mr.. Sho Nemoto and myself and is the
first thing of the kind in japanese, and is the
direct result OF your work To the best of my
belief it is the straight Hare-Spence plan. One
thousand copies have been printed, and an
other thousand copies of proportional Repre-
sentation" in English are now 10 be printed,
the printers being at work on it. Proportional
Representation" thus coming out in Japan
just in the "nick of time" ii will certainly
greatly influence public opinion even if 1t falls
short of being adopted.
TnanaS i9T the c0Pes Gi your psmPnet
afresh every time see "Hope and Home"
am hoping your harvest home may not be long
delayed. The single-tax propaganda is also
making great progress in Japan.
This japanese proportional represen tation
is not called proportional representation, but
"eQulty IN electlOnS,' as Delng Dettcr under-
stood. Mr. Nemoto has done noble work
He had to show it about and get criticism to
be certain it would be understood That has
delayed its publication, but has made 1t more
valuable. Prosperity TO you. Yours, grate-
fully, CHARLES Z. GoRsT.
The pamphlet on proportional Repre-
sentation" referred TO in the letter is the
work of Mr.. Cridge, who has spent years
In celebrating and working out the de-
tails of the system, and is regarded, all
over this State and the United States as
we'll, as eminently an authority on the SUBJ
| ject. Mr.. Crldge, editorially in the Lee
moore Radical and in the columns of the
| San Francisco Star, to which be has been
| a steady contributor, has long advocated
| the proportional system of representation
and also the single tax reform, in which
he has taken a prominent part.
| The reform with which Mr.. Cridge's
name is inseparably associated has been
| tried in various parts OF the world, and
has invariably proven satisfactory. The
| system has been In operation at the cleo
! tions of trustees of the Mechanics Insti
tute OF this City, and its operation in the
last two or three elections In which it has
been used has given universal satisfac.
| ton.
The general outlines of the proportional
system are familiar to many. A voter
in choosing board of trustees indicate:
his preference for the various candid ates
and upon the counting of the ballots any
candidate receiving a quota in the Me
chanics' Institute one-seventh of the
total number of hrst-cboice votes is de-
clared elected. In this way it is impossible
for bare majority to control whole