Paragould soliphone. (Paragould, Ark.) 1918-1950, 1922-03-27
CENRO DEATHS
LEAD JAPS TO
LIBERALISM
Progressive Leaders Awak-
en- to Learn They Danced
AS Militarists Ruled; Peo-
pie Want Relief.
BY DUKE n. PARRY,
International News Service Staff
Correspondent.


Correspondent.
Toxic. March 24.-Liberal leaders
in Japan and the mass OF the people,
too. who have in recent months
more than ever awakened to the fact
that they have been paying the
fiddler while Japan's army and navy
have been dancing, see in the death
Of Marshal Prince Yamagata a
chance for a more enlightened re-
gime in this country, the end OF the
dictatorship of the Genro, who have
made and, unnlade cabinets at will
since the constitutional government
was established, and an end OF the
all-powerful militarists.
Six men can be said to have been
in the ranks of these Elder States
men, although others are often list
ed as Genro rather than the hench-
men thatgah@y mere5 Nov two re-
main-Marquis Masayoshi Matsuka-
ia, twice Premier and now Lord
Keeper Of the Privy Seal, and Prince
Kimmochi Saionji, also twice Pre-
mier, who was urged by Prince va
magata to head new cabinet fol-
lowing the recent assassination OF
Premier Hara.
MARQUIS Matsukata, a samaurai
ut the time Of the restoration to the
throne of Emperor Meiji, soon en-
tered actively into politics, occupy
ing cabinet positions at intervals
from the reorganization OF the gov
eminent in 1900, since when he has
been active in the Privy Council
and as an adviser to the Emperor.
ership OF the Elder Statesmen by
merit of seniority and significance
of past service. Yet his influence
among men upon whose shoulders
active government of the country
must fall is meager-he has neither
the personality nor the power to
command possessed by his prede-
cessor His advanced years are to
his disadvantage, too, for he is three
years older than Yamagata was at
the time of his death.
Prince Saionii Powerful.
Prince Saionji, while eighty-three
years old, is comparatively young in
the ranks of the Genro. His inclu
sion has come in recent years. after
he had distinguished himself in dip
lomatic service in the early days
abroad and after he had served va
magata faithfully in the govern
ment here. His influence, probably
due to more recent active partici-
patton in affairs, is much greater
than that of Matsukata, and in case
the Genro are to make an attempt
now to maintain the power they
have exercised for so many years it
will be Sajionji whose word viii
command.
Prince Ito, maker of the Constitu
'tiOn, author of the Sino-Japanese
'Mar and other drastic action and
Abe greatest statesman that Japan
HAS ever produced. who was a
staunch believer in the German i'm
perialistic system and Yamagata
have since the days of fighting that
ended in the restoration been two
OF the leading figures in Japan.
TO them, especially to Ito, goes
most of the credit of the organiza |
tion Of the bureaucratic govern |
ment, and to them goes the credit
for the remarkable progress that
Japan has made since the opening
OF the country and the restoration
Ito, the leader of the Elder States
men, was assassinated in 1909, and
since that time it has been Yamaga-
IL who advised the Emperor and
commanded his subjects.
Word Has Been Law.
I Yamagava's word has been law
Even during his illness up to the