Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-03-26

E4V< 4 clal mission 10 Korea
~ iii a although at present
no holds no official
nosition in the Japa-
f-.rNTrnf nese government en-
.Asspsss cent the rather anom'
- head Of the council OF
alou' VI. .,.,nsn.r serves to call atten-
elder s', MI. unio,e body, which Is the
don 70 "', 81 ms Kind on earth, II is
Only O' T ,se more interesting because
made all W, ,rore or less mystifylng
Of The ma. 70 (, In the news dispatches
reference few weeks 1t has been
Of 'ls ,d,o frequent conference by the
ll, ,so and has even seemed 10 ec hdSv
rllAl .,blret as the real governing pOu'
81 me nation IN =, oldor states.
~, M Of japan IS official II IS on, ~. az .
f'l, " and is without power SO lar Us
u'o'y ' sG on any proposition Is con-
MAJ wi II simply gives the emperor
'sI'' soos6t Of the counsel OF the great
the veHen' who made modern Japan
saws" a,, NJ body In western parlance
tbs sV'. o,,e8 n "htchen cabinet
yolla ., NJ the distinguished men who
B'1au beau. Il the laps would probably
'0nyg such an appellatlon disre-
, .oscfal Atonr rate the aT I Sa ,ri,h
sFs'uI ,be question of what to do with
''N' a,. n. a problem that with
ts "a p,tions is sometimes vexing
. .o.sgb. Yet it is doubtful II the Jepa-
, ,..s Man would work In most t eoun-
ty'' . IT. # is as though the United States
g ..sa3 make an advisory council OF
her u.pesIdenjs' ,o....
A. present the council oil elder states
consists Of four members-Mar-
lI ,, No the president; Count lnouye'
S C'n,t vatsuka,a, and Marquis Yama-
~ Il "a doubtful II four men could
s,S. been chosen who have played a
.s mart in the evolution of Japan
,, rbo together could give more va'u-
',a adylce IN the present crisis. Each
'an,Isments the others, each Is strong
q anne one direction or In some espe-
an dsnortment Of government. Ito is
-, wise tactful, conservative master
,,.,.,scralt Inouye, the more resolute
ana more radical man OF affairs; Mat
sgs,ta the great finance minister, and
yomagata. the fighter and military
lictclan.
Tse genro which is the Jap name
Sr me council Of elder statesmen, was
ragl5d for under the new constitu-
,.op and was to be composed of those
vbo had become especially famous In
wr finance, diplomacy and statesman
shin # was formerly a more numer-
os body than at present, but death has
.tH11A IT'S ranks Membership In II IS
hHfe The emperor only calls It into
eoaisrence IN great crises, Now, adj
yisng ,he mlklio is not a light matter.
In lbe old days to counsel him unwisely
wsa crime that was severely punish
d Ills related that Duke Yamagata,
a brother of the present marquis, once
advised the emperor on q warllke step
aulnst Korea. The other statesmen
deemed such a move neXpedlent at
that time. In other words, the advice
he duke had given was pronounced
bad. and as a consequence he suffered
aenl years Imprisonment and never
again was given any voice In the gov
tlarea. o. Japan. This law has since
ban repealed but the spirit that
Eonpcl il doubtless yet lives,
4 is safe to say that none Of the
members Of the ccnro needs the check
dhs @u,ary provision, That is the
baSm they are members.
N thc four The greatest and by all
oils the best known is Hirobumi Ito
hc maker Of modern Japan, He was
BON In the province Of Choshlu IN 1910
w came from the samural and was
By nature a conservative. II seems
STANCE % the light of his subsequent
Greer that II was his violent opposition
10 The Introduction Of western ideas
n'o japan that got him into difficulties
At home and caused him to run away