The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-02-04
W BRYAN WRITES OF JAPANESE HISTORY CUSTOMS AND PROGRESS

care of the body. the training of the
 mind and the cultivation of the moral nature. He was one of the first to
 raise his voice against hara-isiri. and In his code of morals he says: TO complete the natural span of life fs
 to discharge duty incumbent on man. Therefore. any person. who. be the , cause what 1t may, or the circum.
 stances what they may. deprtves him. self by violence of his own life, inex- cusabIe and cowardly, as well as | mean. and entirely opposed to the principle of independence and self-re- | spect.T
 Concerning woman his code of nior-
 als says: 'The custom of regarding women as the interiors of men is a vicious relic of barbarism Men ana
 women of enlightened country must
 treat and love each other on basis of equality. so that each may develop
 his or her own independence and self respect"
 When this great man died in 1901 hts widow was in receipt of letters from
 many women expressing their appre- citation of his iabors in behalf of the
 women of Japan. Some of these ars reproduced in life of Mir. Fukuzawa.
 recently issued, and show the deep gratitude which the women feel toward him. It is also interesting to know that Mir. Fukuzawa believed in the dig. nity of labor. and taught that each per- son should be Ian independent worker
 besides being his own breadwinner." While he taught patriotism, he also
 taught that the people of all nations
 "are brethren" and that mo discrim-
 ination should be made in dealing with them."
 The Emperor sent him. just before his death 50,0e0 yen as recognition of his eminent services. but he imme. | diately turned the sum over to the Keio -Gijuku.
 The Jiji Shimpo. the newspaper es- | abolished by Mir. Fukuzawa. is stlil com
 ducted by one of hia sons. with whom
 we had the pleasure of dining. An-
 other son is an instructor in the Kei0- 1 Gijuku
 Newspaper development has kept
 pace with the development in other
 directions. Toklo, the capital. has six- 1 teen daily papers with sufficient circu~
 lation to make them known as large papers. Besides these. there are HaE- | azines, periodicals and papers publish 1 ed in English. The Kokumin Shimbun Is known as the Government organ while most of the others are regarded as independent The Tokio Times Is an excellent paper published in Eng l Iish. There is a weekly publication 1 cafed The Economist, with a circula~ 1 tion of 5000. which deals with come | merciai. financial and economic ques- | tions. Yokohama has papers published ! in both languages, and the same ls true of the other large seaport towns. | All the cities are supplied with daily | papers published in Japanese. At Kagoshima. a city of about 50.e00. sit- uated at the southern extremity of Ky ushu island, I found q prosperous daily ! paper called the Kagoshima Shimbun. | (Shimbun means daily newspaper.) 1t has q circulation of $500. 5000 being | in the city.
 | At Osaka I noticed n building elaho- rately decorated. In front were large flags on bamboo poles and smaller flags strung on cords. while Japanese lan-
 terms were present in profusion. As
 none of the buildings around 1t were
 decorated, l inquired and found thax the decorated building was the of- l flee of The Osaka Ashahi News, and | that the paper was celebrating the withdrawal of the governmental order which for two weeks had suspended it's publication. The issue for that day
 contained large size picture Of the