New-York tribune., 1921-02-28

elsewhere the agricultural and peasant
population is conservative--espe ally
mere, where the peasants are even mora
backward than in other countries. But
mere also the cities exercise a dispro-
portlonate influence, and the lead will
be set by them. There is also cam
ralgn on foot TO organize the rural
population, especially land renters.
Of these forces the political Is the
least important. The liberalism Of
shose. who are liberal is real enough,
oue they are in the lower official ranks
and play no part in determination of
policy. Time will probably do it's work
with them. Subtle brihcs of promotion
VIII be held out. Social influence will
undermine. With the welding of power
they. will develop the bureaucratic
mind. And if all these fail they will
DC Kept in minor positions. Nowhere
is dangerous thought more feared
than in the bureaucracy. They will
change their views or they will be kept
1ar from the sources of power.
Native Writings Also Banned
"A great deal of original literature
also ~is published, and Internationally
banned. Reconstruction and Emancipa-
ton are thinly yelled Socialist organs
Wareda (We) is under the editorship of
the brilliant and iconoclastc Oyamr
and Hasegawa, former professors
palled by the tameness and restricted
sphere of pedagogy. And DR.. Yoshino.
brave fighter and an excellens
scholar. edits the National Review ana
also has big personal influence o~
successive generations of universisv
students.
The universities have become noe-
beds of rsdicalism. Curiously enough,
rp re &ha t,,, ;,1
verslties of Toxic and Kyoto than of
the private universities, though the
government institutions have been the
recruiting ground for the bureaucracy
since they were founded. 1t was for
that purpose they were founded, IN
fact Many of the professors are
avowedly Socialists, though the avowals
are. not public, and still more are
sociaiistic. There are the student So
cletles, such as the Hsin jim Kai, the
New Mems Society,"" which are open
~ revolutionary.
Ihs middle class is, as everywhere,
unorganized and inarticulate. Also ii
Is restrained by its instinct for con-
formlty, in which also it does not differ
from the middle class anywhere. If 1t
acts it will be to influence foreign
affairs. It's interest is in trade, and the
aggressive policy which closes its best
,larkeIs a1tects its pocketbooks direct
~: And there is showing itself in the
middle class a body of sentiment for
government policy that will not max q
the Japanese trade mark q handicap
nave seen that concretely in the re-
action Of many people | have talked to
ABOUT Japanese intriguings and domi |
neering in China. Against this allow
ance must be made for the fact that
the middle class is always the most
susceptible to the Establishments in the
propaganda of the governing minority.
md public opinion, as | have said, is |
IN an infant state in this country,
The greatest vitality lies in the labor
movement, with which must be asso-
ciated the Socialists. The greatest
need is there and the greatest drive
comes from there. Labor offers the
solidest center for organization and
j Japanese labor has gone further in or
than any other class, ex-
cepting always the militarists and their
big business alliances. The direction
Japanese labor will take and the out
come are speculative 1t is still in the
formative state that gives no hint of
the .future. What indications there
are | shall take up next