Show t t ti A k i V I I St Careers r of o Elder Statesmen of oi Japan I II il I A t I It t lJ 1 t a tJ f 1 HH H H H H t oJ t I IH H HI HII j 1 j jJ jf I r rj J I I I t I r f fF d J fJ F t r rI I r T I I I i f If I f fI f I J I wl 1 tt r X f l t I I itI S i Ii ii i Ji i I i 1 1 hH i I t S r r t I I MAIQUIS ITO Tho Loading Leading Elder Eldor Statesman of Jap an Written Witten for tar the t News by b Boa I 1 sett II AlAN plays playa nt being holn t a II modern con t J state Moto but hut her bur 1 h her hr r parliaments c l ti r political t 1 dla 1111 ll cords uro nil ill on the rite In III IIII i I time of crisis oriels such UH nut the present nil all power In the tho sup Mill supported supported ri ported by b hl his hla which Is js freely freel J nn nil 1 Statesmen but butt t rally meats the wIsest wl t mid caul moat thoroughly tested tl statesmen These e tl LI 11 men h hato vo no nn recognized 1 l but ul they th singly simply push path h the til tr try v aside and take charge of lit i Whenever tho the becomes rurally serious r r Imagine that the tho American common had Its lis existence i b B td ed upon n a 1 M r and lint that It un was ruled t by an nil composed l of oC oCI I I Abraham Lincoln Uen ral Irmo Ad Admiral 4 miral Farragut leveland and this would give I nome romo taint faint Idea Idell of ut the manner In III which Japan Is III ruled lo the Thc Ikler 1 lder I y nia a u men Inept of loll I l dent who have Mc engaged In it hitter bitter real v rivalries In III parliament nud turned one onet t out nut of power not once or 01 twice I Sir but bat many times lot Mou of them have hav i hild th the tho position of prime prune minister tad and I tho highest dignities which tits tho J mikado win run bestow bostow Now their rival im tle over Oer their partisan labors ended I LiW they confer together in III perfect har hat harmony noY mony to and at direct he t policy of oC the nation ft without regard to la the th cabinet lne std purr pur r they the once nice swayed It Is a n 1 unique kind of government which has tot Hot UH lie liko anywhere else In the thc world I THEY I Il 11 The Tho Eider BIder mun vary nry In number according to the tho will of the mikado who Into council CO I II whom Thom hI he l At Jt present ent there thero are ore only live IV men mIll who run can 1111 really claim the title Marquis f Ito Count t fount Count C and Held Manilla Other r men cn nn M nu i culled Into conference v th them such BH ON Ha ran the foreign minister Field Marshal Kalium t tho the premier and of at the army and nn no noy vy Y like Admiral TOKO Tog Ad Admiral ml ml nut niu and amid Genera lollIOn Rut Hut theno theao the o Brent personages Ilet ore are singly Dimply called In to tomake tomake make their theil retorts reI upon Ulon which the m 11 tier dor Statesmen confer and decide ecIth It Im Jm Imagine agine the th seated aerated In toe tM highest position n II subject can enn Oil fill under the tho constitution weekly Weldy milking his hla report i ito to an all body hod and ancl taking his hats In Instruction Inv Yet Vet rt that in is what happens The Ihl lider statesmen men are arc nil of samu ml rush descent dl ent It tins hag been well fold eald that II it IH is still II till the who vuo rules In Ja la Japan Phil pan train from tho the premier dowry down to the lit the Ill policeman who stands Mends on the street corner colter The Tho mikado In is I careful to representation to nil all the four tour great dam Marquis Ito and Count Inouye belong to the pile Cho duo clan Count Mat to the he Satsuma and Marquis and Field Marshal OlIm I to the and respectively They all played elt n a leading part In break brenk breakIng log Ing down the old feudal system of Ja Jo Japan JI pan tn JOIn The Tho Emperor I ought to tobo tobe tobe be bo grateful to them themi for they helped to hUn him him u II great monarch Instead of oC an tin effeminate powerless recluse re like preceding n os rite Tho no Oe nave nove nil all sat had re remarkable rev careers but hurt the are orf tho those e of Marquis Ito and Count tho and Jonathan of Ja Jo politics politic 1101 They lere boys boy together and when they tile the wore oi of 01 J enough they entered II II I r Thoro u Mil Aro Five Pho of 0 Thorn Thain Ito Ho lala Count Count MAtsukata and 1 Tho Mold No Position Po Jho 1 in Japan in of oi Crisis and Hon Evan fun Ilio Comos to Thom for and Arc Aro ro Mm Ibo David 1 and Jonothan of o I From front Boy Bo mod houd and und Wont through h Stirring TO of Work of Oyama and d tuk L I I the of oC the Prince of the thc head d o their clan ns its Soon afterwards Japan wits vh convulsed by b the thc entry of foreigners consequent upon up m Commodore Perrys expedition eX Ito tto and hot hotheaded h oded youna young stern aters that they the were joined In the cry of Japan for the Japanese Nobody was wall more mor bitter against the foreigners than they were Inoue Inouye admits tint that he hI led 1111 a n band of young samurai ural who burned down the house houlle net lIet apart n art for forthe forthe the he first British minister ter the night be before before fore ore the latter was Willi tp tJ occupy It Ho lie had no special grudge the th minister but he wanted to embroil his hili government with the tho foreigners fore find nd prevent them from settling nettling In 10 the Hut even een nt at It that t early fin rl age Ho Ito to and had tho the of statesmen In iii them They The soon saw that nothing worth while could he be accomplished along those Lilt I lt us 1111 learn what the Ahe he foreigner fore knows known they thoy reasoned with one ono another That la Is the tho only way to bent beat him at nt hi his hili own game and preserve f the tile independence of oC our At that time the thc edict forbidding Japanese to leave ICIle their country was Willi In full force foret but the young samurai l sold gold their property and got Hol together oil nil the money they possessed lo or could bor hot borrow bOrrow row from their friends With this they thc bribed some Homo Englishmen l to them aboard ono one of Jardine and nn i I famous clipper ships bound for London They had hm paid about ten times the proper price for their passage loa but the people who got the money mone cheated them They rhey fhe hod had nothing to do with the ship and Mm AIm ply lily III smuggled the young Japanese aboard us as TO MOll When the they were dragged to light tight two days after leaving port the eats cap captain nIl tall tain naturally regarded them an as such suh In vain they the protested that they th were gentlemen of ot Japan who had paid for their passage le They The were pet set to work scrubbing dishes and swabbing st the th docks decks and In III the dogwatches dog the tho sailors solicits taught them to piny play cards b by all the money they th y had left except I 2 with t which they hid Y landed landell In London Count t ij uW h genial al good um d m i u l nothing letter than ti ii JoVe jole at oL his OWn expense e erpe sec Is I fond fon of t talking about ut those thore early experiences experience Not so st the sober stately Ito Ho 1 InoUe Inouye t rt ii JI cold and n nil tn it y It t t Y v In R nor no hotly body In the vast metropolis utterly Ignorant of oC western ways wn and with only about n a 1 dozen English J words warde In their vocabulary They a l bakers shop with wit h beautiful crisp brown In loaves Inouye e rushed picked up one of ot the loaves loave and unit gave the baker n dollar The Tho man ratan pocket pocketed the dollar and gave Ke him no change ed cd although tho the proper price was wall only cents their Unit trot tit lit meal In five Ole England co ro cost t them halt half their theil capitol capital They Tile In iii London Loudon for a 0 year ear and IIII probably l they could not Hot them selves Helves IC tell how they managed to live lire during that time line Scanty remittances arrived from home and nd they eked out outa n a bare hare by b performing nil III kinds of mental menial tusks tonka t when they the were lucky enough to get work It must have hae been n a terrible life for the young oung who had hOI always been heen used to having the best of everything and had been taught from frum Infancy to look upon any nn work except that of oC the sol 1101 soldier soldier dier nn no an nn unspeakable un degradation Hut But they stuck luck It out and accomplished their purpose of learning the ways of the western world and then returned to Japan to find public affairs In 1 n a terrible state The Prince of their own feudal fendol limed lied upon the lie foreigners at nt and could rouM not he be Induced to make reparation throve trouble was brew brewIn Inc In TO AVOID WAit WAIl Ito and hurried to the prince to tell him of the might ought of the Occident and counsel him to avoid war Their mission uns vain aln they the were lC rebuffed Ire by hy the self old 01 1 feudal lord who could not Imagine that anybody was greater than himself At this point Japan nearly lost the services of oJ two of her greatest men for Ito and have since admitted that they the seriously debated the question whether In to honor they ought not to 10 commit hurl since educe they the had failed In their task They The refrained retrained from front doing so HO because they felt that their country might still have ho need of them Their zeal for tor or peace pence with the th foreign m era and for tor the Introduction of foreign methods Into Japan speedily encompassed passed them with n a crowd of ot enemies One Ono dark night while he was erns walking to his home In n the Zhe he midst of ot n a heavy heay snowfall Inoue Inouye was attacked by a 1 gang ut of almost t cut to pieces by b their knives and ond left for dead upon UllOn v He lie crawled home fainting several times on nn the way and was con come concealed by his hl mother until he recovered It Is IB Bald said that bellying himself to be he he wanted waded to perform tile the hap happy happy py 11 dispatch and Ind leave the world In a 1 manner mallner befitting bc n Il warrior but his hh mother prevented him from doing to so When WhIm ho he recovered and went out Into the tho world worM again his hili enemies had him arrested and nuns Hung Into a noisome jail where he was Wl left for tor three days das with without without without out food or water If It the stories told In Japan may be trusted Ito had nn an even een stranger nd nil adventure venture about the th same time He fell foil fellIn In iii with a 0 inand of his hili enemies one day Ita and had to flee ileo for hili life Ho He ran Into the h hulle use of ot a I geisha of oC his hili acquaintance lance tance anti and she he hid hIm him beneath tho the loose boards of tho the floor door drawing a n brazier of ot chat charcoal con over the spot where he h arils concealed on ills 1119 pursuers en Ill tend and add threatened to torture her If it she would not tell them where he was hidden She Hits protested that he was not there nail nile nt lit last they the belied her and amid went rent awn A DA PATH l The path of ot the tho reformers was hard and and dangerous Count who shin was also air one of the tho Eider l Statesmen whets when he died n a year or two 10 ago ngo ens once onte asked by b an nil Englishman whether his 1 la life lite not Imperilled when lie he flat first preached trenched the doctrine of the tho western zing izing Izing of oC Yes Tea he replied my illy III life was at ot attempted attempted tempted three tines times I J taken pris pria prisoner outer oner twice and ond once condemned to death Even In ht later lays days long after aftel the restoration the tho danger was IM not over ocr You see lice that I J have lost my leg legIt legIt It 11 was blown off oft by h n bomb thrown Into my III carriage In by b a fanatic who objected ob objected obJected to the treaty tre ty giving Judicial con ron concessions concessions cessions to foreigners foreigner for which I was responsible re Ito 10 nod Inouye I have 1110 remained firm Or political allies throughout their long official careers and on the numerous per oc occasions clI when hen Ito has hns been called upon u Tina lion by the mikado to form a 11 cabinet he nan always S Insisted that Inouye must have havo havea a n prominent position In III It It has teen been paid that If one wished to sum up mod modern modern ern cm Japan In n 1 word It Mould be 1 0 Ito He lie more than any KIY other man Is Ie rev re responsible for the tho rapid development of at atthe the country on western lines Wonder Wonderful ful full man roan that he IH Is lie hI even Induced the ladies Indies of ot the tho court lo 0 abandon their pretty native costumes co for Parisian gowns People of artistic tastes ta tes may quarrel with hint him on that score core but he ho took tho the view slew of a II practical politician holding that while tIll the Japanese dressed Hee as ns America and Europe I would treat treal them nS at and not ns as equals Count Inouye IlIou said nn In American w woman who Is la thoroughly familiar with t Japanese affairs has hns always teen been the scapegoat of the various cabinets In ho has hns served nerved The fhe political his hla history hi tory tar of Japan Is U full of his hats failures I They are nrc not mini to his hili discredit but are due to his disposition to offer olTer himself up an nit n willing sacrifice whenever his hla colleagues colleague hove mc made mude a blunder In III his Ideas Idena of ot foreign policy Count Inouye closely el resembles I embe John Johll Hay Honesty and peace has hos always been hula his watchword In nn nu article pub published In 1897 1197 In the I no Tomo a n journal jou he ire said mid It has hns generally been licen believed that by foreign diplomacy there IH is meant n a 1 system of ot stratagems This Inter Interpretation Interpretation of ot the expression foreign Volley policy has now become obsolete No Interpretation con cnn be more erroneous than this We lire are convinced that honesty honest Is the best foreign policy I Our policy la is l to reveal I cat oath and disclose our whole heart to the representatives of the friendly powers Perfect peace reigns reigna over the cast east Let pence penco be our foreign for policy polley HU ilia will trill If we stay may reverently refer I to It 11 must be for peace Ever 1 cl since the thu restoration pence peace p nan has been I the tune principal of our government Peace P and Justice have hau always been I our aim 1101 aimi I I by I no nl menus melUS disparage lI the tho spirit of enthusiasm m A nation moves on onward onward ward because of this thU I f Without enthusiasm and antI vitality a II nation ua Is In truth dead dOll II Rut Hut courage or must bo Lo accompanied by b morality In order to form a n sym symmetrical symmetrical metrical character To conquer other IH I H IHil WH H H HI HT Y l IIi Y I y H A A f ff I f f f ti t T Ti T I II i I I L 1 t j f y Ii C y X i 1 J tr I I I a r kt r rr r r 1 H Hr HUbS T 10 r I r l I r rl ry Y f y N Nt r h t A f r X lII 1 H i 1 W i rl HI hd 1 hi H i rI H r Hi rl nr IJ S FIELD OYAMA OAMA I Who Took Port Arthur Arthu from the Chiner ChIn nations for tho the mete mere sake Bake of nf conquer conquerIng hug Ing would Indeed bo be a 1 pleasure for fur forthe forthe the Into being belli Hut But such lIu h aggrandize aggrandizement ment from the Ihn want v ant att of tf 1 If n cn 1 fixed basis would trou Id not last long It t would necessarily tall foil Into decay and corruption The Tartar Invasion of ot Europe l rolle was teas u II grand thing at lit the time What was Its his outcome When the Crescent was wn raised In tho the city of Constantino Constantinople pie about four hundred years earll ago aKo how bow mighty amid how dazzling grand ni Pealed penrell the thu Turks The kings of ot all ull tho the nations were about to 10 kneel be before before fore rare tho rho Turkish emperor and pay homage to him Hut Hilt 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