Year: 1872

great interests of diplomacy and COM
me.ce. So when the representatives of
the old japanese heather aristocracies,
come to make comparisons of their three
thousand years civilization with ours of
three hundred years, we Immediately in
form them through our newspapers that
the hospitalities of the Nation will be
ten lered to them in the hope thati may
prove beneficial to the interests of our
commerce, and that we are the great and
wonderful people they behold in virtue
of our Christianity! We give them the
biggest Bible we can find, and escort
them to pay ceremonious visit to the
chief criminal of the country. While
storm-bound the echoes reach them of a
quarrel at the State Capital over the cost
of their entertainment, and they are ac-
cused Of having departed leaving unpaid
bills for food and clothing. Hospitable,
polite, refined as we are, our dialect po-
cts have neglected to say that the aver
age American could lick any dozen OF
them, an omission which our Mikado is
bound to correct.


Returning from the State Fair at Sac
ramento. a company of the Japanese,
who came out with the goods which were
exhibited at the Fair of the Mechanics
Institute saw upon the cars japanese
woman of the lower order in the COM
pany Of some rough looking fellows of
the Caucasian race. They asked her in
her own language how she came in their
company, "the only woman oftheir peo-
pie they had seen on this coast" that
she must return home on the next steam
er. offering to take care of her and pay
her expenses. They took the bullying
of her protectors with dignifed indiffer-
ence. and gave as reason for their in
reference with the simplicity which
showed no consciousness of having done
a meritorious action) that they could
not see one of their countrywomen oc-
cupying degraded position in foreign
land while they had means to prevent
it. Such is the pride of these heathens
that wherever they found student, hav-
ing run little low through unexpected
expenses, working at some handicraft or
securing. by his services in some family
the means of instruction, they forthwith
ordered him to prepare for transporta-
ton to some Eastern College. Some
young officers, predisposed towards self
help, we're banished by the ambassador
al authorities from the intellectual de-
lights of San Francisco to German Uni
versity towns.


The centuries of isolation from the in
calculable advantages of Christianized
commerce have apparently kept this in
teresting people in ignorance of the
great principles on which it is prosecut-
ed. This is shown by their artless in
quiries, worthy of children, into our f.
nancial and railroad affairs. They seem
unable to understand Government
which is neither paternal on the one
hand nor filial on the other, which shows
how unfit these Asiatic races are for
American citizenship. Even Goo Ito,
who of all the Ambassadors has most
enjoyed the benefits of foreign inter-
course, shows his inherit weakness on
occasions which require him to blow
his own trumpet or that of his govern
ment.. They seem to be aware that they
have much to learn.


The newspapers keep you aware that
the moving spirit of our Legislature is
that of Investigation. have come to
consider this Legislative boarding
around in the different towns of the
State settled thing, but until this year
never realized that not be investigat-
ed was to be nothing, nobody. I asked
one of the Solons to explain. "Why, y
he said, ssfor the first half of the session
we are all putting up our little jobs, and
getting acquainted, nobody wants to
make the first move. We are obliged
to investifate and to keep our various
committees stirring round among the
people, just as policemen make up rob-
berries and catch here and there an inno-
cent person in dull times, to keep the
public aware of their zeal. And we have
had awful revelations of frauds in build
ing the State Capitol, and frauds at San
Jose, and now the porridge for the Deaf
and Dumb is being tasted and the Uni
versity has been gone over and the
real business season is about to CON-
mence. A long train of supplicants may
be seen from the State House windows.
while Newman reels silk and Whitney
unrolls maps and Ross Browne makes
reclamation projects clear as mud in
side. Four weeks more and all that
comes of it will be patent to the world. !"
During the blockade one of the pleas
ATTEST wiles by which we shortened the
waiting hours, was a complimentary
benefit to Calvin Mcdonald. one of the
Oldest journalists ami best men on the
coast. Excellent music was gwen
Charles S.oddard read in an excellent