Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1921-04-20
Diet
Sticks To
WarPIar
Unruffled by Queries
About Preparations;
Independent Party
Is Forming
BY Dnke N. Parry.


Diet Of Japan. now in the third
month of its forty-fourth session,
has succeeded in voting down, by
vote of 259 to 141, all attempts
to discredit the government un-
der the present Hara ministry.
Herein may be summed up all the
measures and the standpat votes
Of the present session.
Before the session have come
questions of disarmament, Japan's
failure to postpone astounding
preparations for more than mere
defense, the question Of unneces-
sary maintenance of troops in ST.
IBERIA, maladministration in Ko-
rea, the issue Of the continued vio-
lation OF all international agree
ments in aid of the opium business
by this nation.
Just as promptly as these ques-
tions have been brought up by
some opposition orator In either
the house of representatives or
LHt nOube VI peSiSt bHpiV h"o NS'i'S
before one of these two houses a
government minister, who, calm
in tEae assurance that his heavy
Sep dkai majority will vote him
confidence, has in unruffled tones
explained the government ideas
on the questions.
Mo,,o ~ Iooo1 Mo4faro
Strange to say, the government
has violated its originally intend
ed program in two matters. First,
fhe demand for the raising of
schools In Toxic, notably the high
er Technical school, to higher
standing, and, second, the lending
OF assistance to the rice farmers,
has caused action. Both of these
two progressive activities, the IL
nal apparent intention to raise
the schools, and the decision to
give aid to the farmers, have
come about only after demOnstra-
tions have threatened to cause
trouble for the members of the Di-
ct. These are absolutely the only
two measures which seem assured
of success, unless one might men
tion the fact that the Diet at one
highly complimentary session de-
cided that the crown prince,
youth of 20 years, really should
take a trip to Europe, and forth
with voted him a few hundred
thousand yen for additional war
ship escort expenses.
New Party Grows
After the Diet re-opened, Janu-
AIRY 25, split was threatened
from Mr.. ozala, man of progress
sive ideas, who criticized the gov
ernment policy of shipbuilding
and general high expenditures.
Mr.. Ozah is now in the south Of
Japan, addressing thousands of
his countrymen and apparently
succeeding in forming the first
independent party ever known in
Japan.
olDerlan issue haKed.
Viscount Kato, leader of the op-
position, has flayed the Hara min
istry and the government as a
whole, for its policy in Siberia. He
has taken up the shooting. of an
American naval lieutenant by a
nervous japanese sentry, Private
Ogawara, and has attempted to
show that Japan's continued
maintenance of troops in this dis
triet will only serve further to
embarrass the nation in its inter
national relations. He has attack
ed the government for its failure
TO secure cooperation In China
business, and has put on record
as the most formidable opponent
10 Premier Hara's government.
Baron Baito, goyernor-general OF
Korea. who has arrived in Toxic,
heavily guarded against revolu-
tionists TO do what he can toward
explaining the spread of revolu-
tionary ideas and dangerous
thoughts" which the government
fears are increasing each day In
Korea
News Of the mysterious death
in Toxic of Bin Gen-shoku. Kore-
an nationalist leader, a relative of
the former reigning family in Ko-
rea and a noted pro-Japanese. and
the holding of a young Korean
Independent In connection with
Gen-shoku's death. has been sup
pressed by the police.