Tombstone epitaph., 1915-07-18

was bound to be so in the most war. like nation on earth. But Japanese who are better informed know there has been no compromise. Group V may have been left flor later discus sion." but the Japanese leaders will exact every demand embodied in 1t from time to time.
 Thus Okuma. the one-legged grand old man of Japan. sees his great idea coming to fruition. He knows the Japanese people will willingly spend their blood like water. All Japan has needed for conquest Is money. Japa. nese strategy Is not of the year or the decade. but of the century and the millennium. Money. but not enough. has come out of Korea and South Manchuria. Money-money for bat, tleships and siege guns. for sub. marines and aeroplanes-will now flow from China into Japan. Centuries ago untutored Japan made conquests on the mainland and adopted Chinese culture. Sixty years ago she threw of the culture of Japan for the efficiency of the West. Now she will go a step farther and with iron fist impose western efficiency on China
 Modern wars are fought with fac tories. With 40O, O,000.oOO Chinese la boring to supply munitions of war in her rear. sixty millions of Japanese will present the front of their warrior 1 nation to the white race and tell il 1 to get out of the western Pacific | and some day will tell the French tc get out of Cochin China and the Brit ! ish to get out of India.
 1 These are the aims of Okuma. They are not hay national aspirations. but active policies that Japan Is working every minute of her time to carry out Okuma proclaimed them openly anC loudly when he was of the party of thu opposition. On this platform of mill tarism he won his campaign in thu 1 spring of 1914 and busted the Yama moto party. For year he has beer in control and his hold is strongel than ever
 Being at the head of the nation hi words soften. He exudes honey tt Great Britain and sends message breathing the spirit of peace to tn, United States. Japan Is not deceived They have long seen these two 1T reconcilable currents of expression flow from Okuma's mouth-and the. know which one to believe. They be lieve only the one which accords witt the spirit of the samurai, the "tw sword man"
 In Japan beth the nobles and tn commoners are militaristic. Okum is a noble. but he has chosen to lea the commoners. Perhaps this is be cause he came from neither of the tw leading clans which for many year controlled Japan. but of a weake clan, the Hizen. Throughout his If he has fought against the clan sy: monarchy. now for years strongly e tablished.
 At seventy-seven, Okuma Is stil fiery and energetic. He was a boy c twenty. living in a small Japanes town, when the visit of Commodor
 Perry and the granting of tcat
 rights to foreigners by the shogun SC
 all Japan to talking about the ''ret haired" barbarians Okuma had
 great curiosity to learn about tn
 world outside Japan. He heard of a
 American missionary. Doctor Vee
 beck, and went to him secretly-not
 embrace Christianity. but to learl First of ali he learned to read tn Bible. Then came the one polite; document the devoted missionary DO sessed, the Declaration of Lndepel
 dence.
 His soul was set on fire. Whe . seventy years old, he said: The req, ing of the Declaration of Independent when I was a boy made such an in
 pression upon my soul that the do
 times proclaimed by 1t have eve
 been my guiding rule in life" Thoms
 Jefferson became his model and | studied everything he could find abol the American statesman.
 In his youth came the great Ja anese civil wars between the mikado , party and the old feudalists. Okun left school and plunged into the thic of the fray. The mikado's party. ha . ing adopted western military tactic 2 won it's battle, and the mikadc was Q ] tablished as supreme in Tokyo. Ok ; ma was put in . position in the ofit of foreign ara,1s-
 The intricaeTes Of Japanese polite
 in the last half of the nineteenth ce
 tury are difficult for an American understand without long study. Sui 3 cient to say that Okuma was In tf