The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-09-26
The MIKADO'SHOUR
OF TRIUMPH.
Japan Will Profit BY the War in
China More Than All the Other
Countries of the World.

The Mikado of Japan expects to profit
~ this war with China mere than any
If the other rulers of Europe and Asia
will profit. From the first he has spur
ed ON his troops to the enemy's pun
shment and a the initiative great bat
lie the japanese bore the brunt of the
aght
The Mikado himself is not in the fray,
tor the JapaneseNwould not spare their
ruler in war, nor run the risk of his
losing his head before the Boxers
spear but from afar he governs his
troops and is the ideal minister of war,
from the throne.
Always slightly inclined to be war
like the japanese have insisted upon
their rights. where China was con
cerned with persistency that de-
manded the respect of the Powers. In
the Japanese and Chinese war they
showed what they could do at sea, and
now ON land they are showing their
prowess again.
Foreseeing the scrap" that must in
eVitably come, the Mikado, like an ex-
cellent general has kept his troops
prepared and at moments notice they
went into battle
China lays all the blame of her trou-
bles and her loss of prestige to the Mi
kado. This remarkable man who has
the power of coming to the front at the
right time, is a stranger to the world,
so quietly does he hide in his own
kingdom.
JAPANESE LAW.
THE empire OF Japan shall be reigned
over and governed by a line of EN-
perors. unbroken for ages eternal"
These words constitute Article / of
the Constitution of Japan, promulgated
February II, 1889. exactly to the day,
almost to the very hour, thirty five
years after the American treaty ships
We're sighted from IdZu. on November
3. 1900. will occur the birthday of the
Emperor of Japan. who in his line-the
oldest of existing political dynasties in
the world-stands officially the 121st
The Emperor, whose name means lit
orally 'gentlemas," opened his eyes in
the sacred city of Kioto on November
3. 1852. Very curiously, in the view of
Americans. this was just about the time
that Commodore Matthew c. Perry re-
ceived his orders to proceed in the
steam frigate Mississippi to make a
treaty with Japan. As all know, Perry
went to the Tycoon's headquarters,
near -d'lO, anu never knew I'LL the
day of his death how real, though hid
den, was the sentiment of the japanese
people toward the Mikado, who stood to
them as the Son OF Heaven and the
representative on earth of the gods
that created Japan first and the rest of
the world afterward.
Mutsuhito was the second son of the
Emperor Komei. who reigned from Is47
to 1866, dying at the age of thirty seven.
His mother was the Empress Asako.
Her family name was Fujiwara, she
being of that illustrious family which.
before the domination of the military
classes in the eleventh century. fur
nished most of Japans statesmen and
which since then has given so many
men and women of eminence to the
Court. The name means wistaria
meadow. The young Son OF Heaven
grew up within the precincts of the
palace and amid those surroundings
which have been so brilliantly set forth
In color and detail by the Tosa school
of painters and In the classic romance
OF Murasaki Shikibu in her still famous
poem. "Genji Monogatari," now to be
read in English.