The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-11-25


United States hez no truer foreign
friends to-day than can be found IN
japan and Russia. though there may
be a small element In each country
who air slightly unfriendiy. Coun-
tries, like individuals. hev imperfec-
lions. II
Marshal Cor GENERALLY Yamagata.
one ov the great officers In the jap
apese army. gets the credit for much
ov the recent progress In Japan in
military way. In 1854 he wuz
spearman in the Japanese army. Al
that time he wuz a very young man.
When the Japanese attacked the for
eign warships In Shimonoseki straits
young Yamagata wuz in the hight. |
The Japanese were armed with
spears, only. The foreign sailors
moved them down with guns before
the Japanese could get close ennuff
to use their spears. Probably many
ov the Japanese thought the fates
wuz against them. But Yamagata
knew better. He saw that the for
eign guns were superior to spears
and there that Japan must be armed
in a modern way. In short time
guns had been purchased and he wuz
drillin' a real army. assisted by for
eign officers. When the army wuz
gotten in shape the next thing wuz a
navy. Japan hez both now. If you
don't believe hit. come over here an
start trouble. You will soon conclude
that Hades hez opened up general
agency on these islands.
At one time the Japanese wife wuz
merely the servant ov her husband
and he could hev az many wives az
he could manage. They were awlso
the servants ov the husbands moth
err, the mother-in-law joke bein'
reality in Japan. At one time a wife
or daughter could be sold into a
house ov prostitution in Japan. Ooka,
a Japanese Judge. put stop to that
years ago. He hez bin called the
japanese Solomon. The case in Ques-
ton wuz that man owed another
an the debt soon reached thirty-five
yen. Then the money lender de-
manded the fair daughter ov the
poor debtor in payment ov the note.
The father appealed to Ooka. The
judge confiscated the home ov the
money-lender and sold hit and used
the proceeds to settle the debt. That
wuz an unusual way-to sell the
: home ov the creditor to settle debt
due by the debtor. But the decision
ov the Japanese Judge stood and
there wuz no Supreme Court to re-
verse hiz decision. The daughter wu2
: saved, anyway. Who will dare to
s question the wisdom ov the Judge?
u One ov the foremost leaders o,
thought in Japan in recent years wui
Yukichi Fukuzawa, editor ov one o,
: the greatest newspapers in Japan. He
e wuz a fine writer. thinker and phil
t osopher. He wuz awlso an orator
havin' made the first public speech
. ever made in Japan, the speech bein
- made only twenty-odd years ago. Vi
to that time no orators had appear
ed there. In the Japanese Language
It he wuz called the "Great Common
l. err" for he refused any official honor
s or titles. Among other things thi
q writer-orator established a great col
lege, the Keio-Gijuku, which he
given more educated men to japan
e than any other institution. This grea
70 editor had this to say in defense O
woman: "The custom of regardin
women as the interiors Of men is
r. vicious relic of barbarism. Men an
women Of any enlightened countr
must treat and love each other on
le basis Of equality, SO that each ma
g. develop his or her own independents
a and self-respect."
r. Wasn't that sound talk? Whe
this great man died, In 1901, his W
dow received many letters from We
men Of Japan. He, too, deserved tn
title ov the Japanese Solomon. Jus
before the editor died he received
?" letter from the Emperor of Japan er
closin' check for fifty thousand We
y, (about $25,000) in recognition of hi
n valuable work az a newspaper mar
st But he at once turned the none
over to the college he had establish
1T ed rather than add it to hiz persona
J. estate.
re- The Jill Shimpo, the great news
Is paper edited by Mr.. Furkuzanar,
lie still published by one ov his son!
N The other son IL a professor in tn
college.
or Speakin' ov japanese newspaper,
'r their air different from America
le newspapers. But az I can't rea
Sc them, some other fellow will hev t
D. tell the difference. The papers al
'e numerous. There air sixteen dali
le newspapers published in Toxic,
larger number than would be pull
): lished in an American city ov til
s. same size. However. they air nc
O. awl large papers and some ov the1
y, air sold cheap. In addition to tn
daily papers published in Toxic Their
air number of weekly and MONTH
publications, few ov them being pu
K, out in the English language. Othe
D. cities and towns hev daily and weel
a ly newspapers in about the same pre-
Id portion accordin' to population. Tn
f. Emperor can order any paper to SUI
Ii pend publication II the tone of til
to paper doesn't please him. Not lon
,e ago he ordered the Osaka News {
% suspend for two weeks. That pape
u hez circulation ov more than 200
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