The age-herald., 1897-11-12

Japan. He is worth a million or more. His estate is olnie of great magnificenee. He lives in truly Japanese style. He dresses E the dress Of the country. vt when he < evss foreigners he receives Jtheim in fo.t'zn apartm mts. He seats them in cha, and gives them tables. He serves tea to lhem with sugar ard cnealns and 2 drinks lea with them be- cause he kr MS they like 1t that way. At nome a,'se with the people of his country hs sFes in Japanese style. Takes his seat on tae floor His Japan eSse house has neither cfails. ltablss nor beds. He prefers this man-lar of living because he was raised tfGt way StH he IS coneiderate to the coa.fJ.f of oth- CTS.
 have knciwn some elf cur great S tes- men. I have talked win Gla6etene, Bismarck, Blaine, Cleveland, Haf4 on and others. lhave talked with ATcKin- ley and Bryan, ibut I have never talk with a man that I believed moee truly honest, brave, or lbroader than tll $ man, Olluuna, of Japan. He is not as wily as II Hung Charg, perhaps. but he is broad, advanced and learned. He knows Jiapanis power. Fdw either men real "a it. II
 The reaeson for Okunra's resgnai ion was net assigned in the brief dispa tsh which we received from TolSso. It may be that this great man has resigned 10 lead in a movement to fnal5e Japan a republic. Japan will be republic some day. The people of that country have become too thoroughly edvanced to b. liexe 1onger in Llhe God-given power of the emperor, who, by the unedueaIted. s considered "a holy spirit, imbued by God with the powers of a deity.
 Count OlSlDrna once expressed to ms fhe opinion that a republic, under v proper consultation, was the only thor ougIhlly just. and eqtnataFbe system If government. may be wrong, blw I would not be surprised M Okuma has re- signed because in his views he went contrary to the opinions of the royal household of Japan.
 You know, the JapaEaese government has been favorable to the re-eslttfii H. ment off Queen LilioulSalan on tn sFh ne of Hawaii.
 There are 50,0O0 Japanese in the ffl- waiian Islands They are a factor t' fe They were given extraordinary ptfxi- eges by treaty made between the 5f- pauese and Hawaii when KalalQun ~2s king of 1.-the HaH1aitan Islands. Lfoh- kaBani, on succeeding to the fhr =, granted the Japs additional privileges, which, were Hawaii annexed to tae United States, would be curtallsd. ne royalst party in Japan would, dt 'l se, obiect to this. Count Oleuma, as nll lS- ter of foreign affairs believing in 2 'e- publican form of government has sane counter Ito the royalist party in ntlay things.
 He would have demanded of tas United Slhaltes that Jatpan and Japamese subjects should be put under the most favorbate nation clause of interna tonal faw-ssomethhng' which Japan has not been and Is mot under today. He chafed under the tralsthes Japan had with the great nations of the eairth. He It was who effectuaEy feiced @ change of tfno ttreaty with the United States which was so bitterly fought ovsr Gan the senate a few years ago. Tine United States had undoubtedly imposed upon Japan. We lrad a treaty with that country which prohibited it from charging more than per cent fuiuy on any goods imported from this country. We Likewise pfohAp- iSed the Japarhese from having amy juris- dfction whatsoever of our citizens, wlhat- ever mihIht be the offense which they committed i'm tl1at country.
 vae,M remember. one nfght when was in Nagasalxi fatal fight which oc- c,rrred between a Georgia nsgro. who was a common saa2or pn board the United States g,unIboat, Concord, and a ,Jagyanese swordsmna- You know it is said that a Japanese expert Swordlsman can wlrarl his sword twics above his head and sever your areIaid from your body before you can blink an eye. The Geor- gba negro was drunk. He had been drinking sake, the national beverage ot Japan. So had the Japanese swords man. The neguso sadd sahoe was no good. The Jap said it was Tlre Jap went for hhs sword The negro whacked out a razor and carved the Jap into thin slices of fresh meat before the latter had twirl- ed his swond once. When the fight was over the Jap was fit subject for cannfbal stew
 Yet ths Japanese were not permitted to try this negro for the offense. He was tried before an Amerlean consular count and SanteHSced ito a short course of impr.i ooas llent. The Japan se govern merM could not touch f1im.
 What do you tlhinae we would do with an Italian fruit vender or a member of the Maffia. if one of them wer~ to kill a man here in Birmingham? Would not we prot st if he were sent to New Orleans to be tried by a court compos- ed of Itaglans? Count Okuma wants Japan to have all the privileges of lhe most favored nations. And then he wants Japan to be public. His course will b4 watched with much in- teresit.