The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-05-28
The Spurred Bantam

n UDDITA in a top-hat. Oriental subtlety vltalzed
+ with western enterprise.
- An old brain Teblooded with new Ideas.
a yellow cuckoo nesting in Caucasian knowledge.
~ "A bantam with appalling spurs.
Implacable constituencies, resourceful, willy, dar-
ing hardy, cultured poised potent immoral calculat-
ing and remorseless.
Yesterday vague kingdom in the mists-sudden-
ly power of the first class.
The accumulated experiences of the outside world
raped adopted and adapted within the span of an aver
age life time.
When and where did the earth ever before witness
so astounding metamOrphoSls!
Let every man who glories in these United States
and vaunts of fair haired superiority, read and heed
the incredible tale of Japans reincarnaton- this
amazing story Of the pigmy that grew up to rub shout
ders with Titans.
The reign Of one sovereign measures the progress
of the realm from hermithood to universal peerage.
When Nutsuhto mounted the throne Japan
as primitive as Arhr's England. Think of it: the
Mikado whose armies smcared ignominy over the Rus
sian pride, spent his childhood as palace-prsoner
guarded by lacqucrpanoped soldiers against the pol
luton Of his subjects gazewas seriously accepted
a lincal descendant of the Sum-
When we building iron cads, his countrymcn
were clad in suits Of mail and fighting with bows and
arrows
Bands of Samurai terrolized the islands. There
was no distinction except by sword. Tradesmen were
pariahs crawling worms under the feet of brave
aristocracy
Sailing vessels were prohibited by decree from
cruising beyond coastal waters. Intercourse with for
cigncrs restricted to few treaty ports and even
nobility denied under penalty of DEATH the privilege of
visiting the mainlands.
The telegraph the steamboat electricity, anaes-
thesia, prophylaxsis plumbing, gaslight railways
power looms artillery, lathes newspapers, government
schools, printing presses false teeth artificial limbs
sewing machines, the cotton gin, the microscope and
matches were unknown from Nagasak to Nikko.
In less time than it takes to turn child into
grandfather Japan dotted her bigotries insularties
castes inherited privileges and prejudces and raised
herself by sheer will and intelligence to scientific
commercial military, agricultural and political eff
cheney that stuns credulence.
Proud and arrogant barons surrendered their
franchises and accepted equality with fishermen and
umbrella makers.
Tycoons and shoguns stepped down from their
high estates and buried their prefenents in the mob
Feds precious to generations before the Csades
were forgotten over night.
Citizenship became fanatic thing-and so per-
sists to this hour.
Trading treaties entered into, STIMULATING the
education OF given number of young men in the uni
yesities counting houses and military establishments
Of the various SENATORS,
Hereditary princes and peasants alike accepted
mental service in European and American households,
entered factories schools farm houses Kitchens
to learn at first hand how the alien thought and wrought
and fought
Then they came home-these bees laden with the
choicest pollen of the civilizations and fertlized