The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-09-30

have never forgotten or snaii
never forget, though / was only 'our
or five years old. that one day Wh"n
rushed into my fathers room ne was
surrounded by the rest of my faInH!
tall were much elder than mel. They
ali looked very serious and were pay
ing most respectful manner. On the
middle of my fathers desk saw an
old style photo, printed on glass
plate, with the black velvet under-
meath. and set In n beautiful PauloW.
mai wood case. Whose photo Is 1t
All were silent. My mother took me
To her laps and whispered to me
Someone who is too high for our
mouths to utter his honorable name!
The emperor" | exclaimed. Husu,
INV father said. Take the child
away"
AT that time 1t was forbidden ny
the law to keep the mikados photo'
I don't know how my father mao pos
sessed of II, but l imagine II was given
To him by one of the royal princes
whom he had often met in kyoto our
ing the restoration war
only a few years later the law al
lowed The nation to frame the mlHauo
photo and hang them in the rooms
and all the public schools should ma .
the mikado's photo in the halls anu VI
his birthday and the new year ua'
the schoolmasters had To read MS M i
iesty's instruction for the school ehii-
dran II was the moral motto on our
daily life, and il was practically tie
bible for us And when the rea"
ing was over we had TO pay our nom
age tn the photo. oh, what ptouo
| little boy was to call "Banzai i"i
| the mtkado, When | was seven VI
| eight the mikado paid his hohoraple
| tour to our district. aud | was eieo'
! ed al one of the excellent boys, anu
/ T had TO recite before him. His ma
| testy has graciously given me DUN
| price. Later on, In 1871, Whie
| a schoolbov at an American his9ii
ava, school in Nagoya. they had great
, military and naval maneuVer IN tne
| vicinity of that town, and the mlkauo
made his headquarter in Nagoya iof
| "a week | used to watch MS iiis
! iesty ON his horseback going to inc
| .hattIefieids" He rode quite Euro~
mean way by bending his shoulders
| forward and swinging together WIN
| tbe horse, and not like the OLD Japa
| nese style, which make the rider quite
/ straight. One day the rain was pool
ing as hard as possible, and -ih tt"l
ders and lightnings were threatei'l''s
| Nobody expected the mikado TO go OUT
! But to our great surprise ms ma
| jesty got up at the same ll,le va" Az.
| The officers. and spene the whole oas
| in the field. His majesty was anso-
| luta wet throtsh He So often TOOK
/ or his gloves and squeezed out 'ile
rain water, All the newspapers used
! the special big types TO appreciate
ana praise our worshippfng mkaoo'
and many eople wept over II when 'hes
read this news.
During the Russo-Japanese war
! whenever Japan was victorious the
generals and admirals always inform
ed the rnikado, The merit OF Inc
victory belongs to the serene bighAts
nf your Majesty Some English
friends pointed this TO me and SAITH
II dent understand that. II saefns
So unnatural IT was The otheers,
soldiers and sailors who won the war.
| The mikado had done nothing at all!
| said to them, Nh then. you aeh
know our country yet. New let ms
write why First of all, you must
understand what the miRado means
70 his nation, He Is quite DIVINE
Now, then. during the late war TINS
| divine mikado left his own place and
! went to I've in an unctt nortahft
Temporary dwelling in Hiroshima,
where all the lighting men embarked
This fact alone moved the whole ma
tons hearts. Then, moreover. ne
listened personally TO all the news
from the front. and very often he
would not sleep in the nights How
did this encourage all the men In the
front. Unless you are not Japanese
you cannot imagine what that meant
To speak ii short in the scientinc
term. 1t was the concentration OF All
the warriors souls. Who else could
ever make such a strong and firm
concentration in one single mass az
cept the So worshiped mikado by
them All soldiers and, sailors werf
ready to die for their mikado. ane
the generals and the admirals, too
commanded those soldiers and sail
ors with their own devotion towards
the mikado. Could 1t not be th'
merit of the mikado then?
With this unbounded merit OF tht
serene mikado he has succeeded tC
make the new Japan. With this merit
he conquered China. with this merit
our Angelo-Japanese alliance ma: