The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1914-03-24

Japan Advertiser March 9, when no
expressed his bold, characteristic opin-
ions, as usual, upon various topics OF
the day. Tho conversation, or rather
the nionoIogno ffof he did most OF the
talking). turned first upon the dieta.
torial severity with which tho govern
ment is trying to gag the mouthpieees
of public o2inion, The (bnnt himself
is sufferer in this respect, for the
March issna Of the shin Nippon, a
political monthly Of which be is the
editog-in-ehief, has recently been con
ilscated. The Count said:
The March number contained about
half q dozen articles ON snl jeets which
are disaRreeable 70 the cabinet. TER
writers. too, were such a. are very lif-
tie loved BY the authorftiss for in.
stance, ex-Captain Ota and Paymsster
katagiri and others. And the censor
ship upon the newspapers seems 70 b
something terribls Tut snch bulllce
like attitude towards the press is Al
confession Of weakness on the part Of
the governments. IL You succeed in
making your opponent lose his temaer
and come upon you like beast you
have all but beaten him. The sworl
inficts pain or death from outside. but
the pen does execution from the inside
OF your victim. The latter way Is the
more deadly OF the two. By rsoeatedIv
attacklnx Z man By The pen you can
make blm FIRST worried and then an
cry. Finally be iReurs nervous debili
ity; sleep deserts his eyelids Mt night,
and bis faee WAKES wan an wo lbegoSe
Thus he viii Die 4 slow and agonizipg
death both physically and morally. III
is far worse than destruction by an
ASSASSIN 2 dagger or bullet. All this
the ErrFs can DO, il only YOU 70 at HI
'ersisfeEtly. and untiringiy. III yoa
have ne cabinet angry, YOU have come
very be1f your tietofy.s, "
Hish Tribute 70 Bason Matsuda.
Asked for his opinion about Baroa
Matsuda, whose death was inst report,
cd, Connt Olluma paid n warm trilute
TO the departed politician. Among
Othcr things he said:
lie has been one Of my Oldest
friends since our childhood. Even
while he was 4 young man he was a
pit or character; bat the eecentrictty
OF HIS temperament was mixed with
ardent ratrioiic zeal. \ Till his end ne
retained something of his boyish ma
ture' tut his impttu0hs rad caIism has
been ehastened into sober equanimity
IN the herv furnace of long and tur.
bulent political career \.
se.yukai Threshed.
What effect will Baron Matsuda .
death have upon the Seiyukais Moth.
ing! That party is an odiona SORT az
parasitic which ever attaches Itself al
power, and never reeds any good leader
IL does not stand upon any POLITICAL
principles, but IN II Is strong M q Z,
only because OF the power Of sornebcdv
else. Just look over the politieaI NJ.
Tory 81 the last two decades and you
WI ma the main part Of the story re-
iates TO how the Seiyukai has been
shliting ITS master from one premier to
,another First IL clHhg to Prince Ito.
vsen changed TO Yamaeata, and after
that bowed al the feet Of MARQUIS
Shoap, Prince Katsnra and Count va.
mainoto by turns. IL has not political
ehastty nj all; IL is safe only as long
as u has power above il. The time
when the Saiypkai is segregated from
political power is the time il falls To-.
Inc sage OF Waseda went on 10 say
tnat Japan is one Of the very few eoun
Tres IN the world in which a political
party can be created ip one night, ana
that II parallel cases are 10 he fopnd
tney are to be found in Spain and Ia
some american nations, where q min.
istry Of whatever kind can ever com.
mand naiority in the house from the
moment 4 acquires power
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