Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-04-23
THOUSANDS IN
 TOXIC SEEKING EQUAL SUFFRAGE
Characterization Leading to
 Dissolution of Diet
 Described

One of the incidents leading up to sthe dissolution of the Japanese Diet |w4s a great public demonstration in T6kio on Sunday, February 22. A remarkable detailed description of ths event is given in the Japan Ad veftiser:
 FWe can force the majority of the Diet to listen to our demand for manhood suffrage" declared one of the orators at Sundays great man hood suffrage demonstration inShi- bA Park. We can bring them to our terms, he declared. "If the inter- ests, as represented by the Diet ma ! jofity, will not listen to us, we can pi}e by national sabotage. We are men who toll, and if we refuse to work the men of money and the men of rank must bow to us.
 "This advocacy of a nationwide strike. or widespread go-easy' campaign, received with wild cheers, N marked the tone of Sundays memo rable demonstration, demonstration remarkable in a number of ways. It was attended by between 15.00o and 10000, with flags of all hues X scores of orators gesticulating from soap box or horseback; with students X waving banners, which called for the immediate resignation of the Hara cabinet; and with groups of me- chanics under their respective union ensigns, shouting labor choruses, but in all the orating cheering, singing crowd there was not single police man in uniform Undoubtedly there were hundreds of plain-clothes po- lice mingled in with the demonstra- ! tors, an done or two were recognized and sbawled out but there was not a single brass button nor a solitary clanking sword among all the thou sand during the three hours and ! more the gathering lasted.
 Plenty of Policemen on Hand. \ .sPienty of police had been detail. ed to the meeting and in groups o1 40 and SC they were on hand at con venient points overlooking the ath letic field which, held the suffrage advocates, the field being fenced of from the park proper, but not uni formed man passed between the red and-white decorated posts, and not { speaker, a cheerer or a banner wavel was interfered with by any polio, authority. Such thing has nevel before happened in Japan.
 ITO justify the good sense of tht
 police in making themselves so con spicuously absent, the big crowt
 was most orderly and good natured
 after a few trouble makers at tn, opening of the demonstration hat been dealt with. These were reput ed to be hirelings of the Selyukal delegated to make trouble, and, i possible. break up the demonstration These thugs, who had shcrt club concealed in their kimonos, gath cred in front of the main speakers stand and started is as soon as th'
 chairman began to address thu
 throng. There was rush and :;
 shcrt melee, in which clubs were sool { suppressed and thrown out aftes
 their weapons had been taken ava.
 and exhibited to the crowd. Onl.
 one such alleged thug was held. thi
 capture and punishment providing
 the amusement of the, day, putin, N the crowd back into good humor an,
 proving the common sense of tn z leaders.
 sAgent Proyocateur" Expelled.
 "It happened that when the trou < le-makers were being elected, on
 of them dressed in students uni x form, who had attempted to preven
 MT. Shimada from speaking, was
 recognized as policeman, from tn Shitaya police headquarters. He wa so denounced and quick search c his pockets disclosed his police note book and other proof of his identit.