The sun., 1905-10-01

call OF the president and reported promptly
at the Hibiya Park, which was the appointed
place When the president called the
meeting ia, ,orcler the number OF men gath
ered--and there we're a few women too
was about five thousand. The number
swelled gradually as the meeting pro-
\ greesed until it became doubled, and IN
NJ the end trebled It was about noontime
when the meeting was called to order.
j. Everybody brought his or her luncn. You
tIknosy how we arrange our lunches. just
1.-TWO or three balls Of rice with some relish
confined in them for elch person. They
were the things we used to take with us
, when we used to 60 for walks upon the
,rnos lntains on Saturdays in our school days;
tdolyou renlember?
|Gentlen y, said the president, after
Iithe-five thousand or moro OF the oongrega-
ition came ,o,a dead hush we are gathered
lfhere to-day for the cause OF patriotism.
You already know what has been done by
our envoy Baron Komura, in whom we had
1eposed our, highest trust, for he Is an hon.
osable man. So is our junior envoy, Mr..
Ts,kahira ard.all' the members OF the peace
Co rmisgon. :, Although we are completely
ast nished blythe result of the peace confer
ence, we haveeno personal grudge against
these honorable men, for they have done
what they have been ordered by the Govern
ment 10 do We rather sympathize with
them Butithis is not the time for making
| personal considerations. What we are
about at this critical moment OF our ma
tional history is that we do not deal with
the diplonlatio affairs, 30 lightly and tenn
I,porizingy as4 they seem to have been dealt
with by our men in authority. From the
fact that the ,privy Noouncil has had session
continued for three days few days ago
we gather the impression that the coun-
cillors have advised ,our revered, loved
|, Mikado to waive the, question OF indem-
| nifty and to split the Sakhalin Island half
"A and half between US and the Russians.
|, And lin that council the man who stands
,prorinent is, as you all know, Marquis
Ito. l will not vivisectsour sometime great
man. We know what will be the conse-
h ouence when that man has any voice in
! the council Of state ButN you have given
I hin,,suoh power that he. can at will jeopar-
! die the welfare OF our 'fatherland.
4 "Bh, gentlemen. the treaty Of peace
has NOT been signed as yet 'by our envoys.
Nay .\it,will not'be bindingMntil our august
Mikado ratifes it. You who have the
voice in the Parliament and In the Diet
! throu shyour representativestare at liberty
| to m.norialize the Throne advising him
not td let the ENJOYS sign the treaty nor to
ratify it,when it is brought honefor rati.
1cation. Unless you exercise the authority
vesteoh in you by heaven and by the pro-
visions. Of our national Constitu ton. you
ara notAfreel men; YOU cannot butxbe bonds
men"
Then all that have assembled there
burst in % fury and exclaimed Kill Ito!
MurderU&rn''
BE stil my oountrymen,' said the
orator. 10 not misunderstand me as ad-
yisine Won to do anything that is against
the rules of civilized societies. By killing
a man, however hateful he may be'to you,
YOU will no have removed the causeiof mis-
fortune. iIou are the people Of constitu-
tional coun try whatever you do ,.donot act
in violation Of the Constitution. Besides,
if YOU have any grievances you can ex-
press your sentiment through your repre-
sentatives in Parliament What l advise
YOU to do lis TO give your support to US by
iastructing ynr respective representatives
| To unite in the common cause ior which
we are working. believe your petitions
will be heart from by the Mikado. But
! If his advisers intenupt your oomnaunica-
! ton with the Mi. sado then it is that you
will do as,youiwish.'
THE resolution which was proposed by
the president was unanimously voted aye
by the mass meeting. You may readily
see that the people expected t. be able to
make a representation strong enough 10
influence the peace enoys. But on Sep
tember 5, when we learned that the treaty
of peace has been signei by the ENJOYS
d; the people all stir with black rage. The
voices Of the newspaper boys who sold the
extras on the streets sounded to the people
\ as signals to begin tho anti-government
demonstrations. From that time forth
1.-THE populace of Toxic partly stopped their
work and did nothing but buy all the extras
that the boys had in their hands 1t was
Therefore a great day for the newspaper
boys I understand that you used to sell
newspapers on the streets of Toxic when
YOU we're a boy in Toxic and sold hundreds
of extras at one time when Miura Goro,
the then Minister to Corea, had been i'm
plicated in the case Of the murder of the
Corean, Queen. Was it So you told me you
made? ..
| BE that as it may, the Portsmouth des-
patches were word by word deciphered in
the extras just as soon as they reached the
newspaper offices. The extras contained.
as you may conjecture, nothing but the
dispatches. They were one by one and a
half in size, as they used to be when you
were here eight years ago. saw man
on the street carrying one Of these extra
in his clenched fist and making all sorts
of strange faces, as II he we're suffering from
physical pain. But, on investigation, it
| was found that he was one Of those patri-
OTIS who would rather commit suicide than
see his country disgraoed. I believe he
will soon 60 to that extreme.
AL these patriots. as well as the gorot-
suki (gorotsuki are the rufians) flocked to-
gether toward noon, with their rice ball
lunches in their hands, in front OF the en-
trance of the Hihiya Park. I did not tell
you the name OF the man who. automat-
ically, as the occasion demanded. as the
president OF the great mass meeting, which