The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-05-08
CAR and MIkAD0
Contrast of the Character of
These Rulers.
RELATION TO THE WAR
Where the Gar Lays It Over
the Mikado.

The Emperor of Russia, head of tn,
mighty nation which is today at wa
with Japan, was born on May is, 1865. II,
was supposed 10 have enjoyed unusua
advantages prior to his accession to tn.
throne. Under his father anarchy haC
greatly decreased. He himself had hac
the benefit of a fuller, more varied expert
ence of administration, a clearer insight
into the empires needs, than any OF his
predecessors
Neglect nothing that can make my sor
truly a man. was the pathetic injunction
of his mother to the many tutor sappoint-
ed TO educate him. The system upon
which the cultivation of his mind was
conducted omitted the dead languages, but
embraced. as well as the tongue of his
empire, English, French and German. AT
thirteen he was appointed TO a position
in the Cossack army, and passed thence
through al 1.-The grades.
Over the commission for the TRANSIT
berian railway he was president at twen-
ty-three. Then, four years before he was
called upon TO take his place as one of the
great men of the earth, he was sent to
get personal knowledge of it. India,
China, Japan, he did thoroughly. Curl
ously it was in Japan that the first at
tempt upon his life was made. 4 fanatic
tried to assassinate him. Upon mis- ar
rival at Vladivostok he inaugurated the
construction of the Trans Siberian rail-
way.
His first proclamation from the throne
declared his intention TO promote the
progress and glory Of our beloved Rus
sia, and the happiness of all our faithful
subjects" When, during his continental
tour with the Czarina, in the course of
which he visited the German Emperor at
Berlin and Queen Victoria at BalmoraI,
the Emperor reviewed the French army,
he affirmed that France and Russia were
equally resolved to maintain the world
peace in a spirit of right and equity"
The peace rescript came four years later.
The Emperor of Japan is sixteen years
the senior of the Gar. He succeeded his
father at the age of fifteen, and claims TO
be the hundred and twenty-first ruler of
his line in unbroken descent from Jim
mu Tenno, the ''Son of Heaven" who
founded the dynasty $50 B. C.
He married the Princess Haruko,
daughter of Prince Ichijo, a noble of the
highest rank. The Empress is childless,
and the Crown Prince, the Emperor's eld-
est son, has for his mother a second wife
The Mikado has had thirteen sons and
daughters, but all the five boys save on
ly the Crown Prince, are dead. The lat
ter is married, and the father of an heir
to the throne.
No greater contrast could well be con-
ceived than that between the education of
the Mikado and the Gar. The former
was born heir presumptive de jure but
like his father. was subject to another
sovereign de facto. Not until 1868 was
the power of the Shotgun, which had been
paramount ever since the twelfth century,
1verthrown. Since then Japan has risen
on wings and eclipsed all records by her
progress.
The strong, acute Emperor of today
was trained to the stringing of poetry, to
he learnings of the Chinese classics, the
mastery of court etiquette. the careful
arrangement of Japanese flowers accord
ng to Japanese methods. The education
# an old-fashioned schoolgirl they gave
he man who today has undertaken al |
most the mightiest task a ruler could es-
ay.-London St James Gazette.