Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-05-02 | Page 27 | Japan Facing an Upheaval Period

JAPAN FANG FACING AN UPHEAVAL PERIOD W I Writer er in in London Pap Paper Says Serious Situation i Prevails in Nippon By y News N London Landone May Mar 2 Behind 2 Behind the cUr cUrbin cury bin tain of censorship and nd cable Inter Interruption Japan Is la Dasing through h a crisis crests comparable In gravity Co fo that of 1868 In the opinion of ot Hurh Hugli I ledwood led led- ed- ed woo wood writing In the Dally Daily News The Tho revolutionary nary movement which ushered ushered ushered ush ush- ered In In the tho MeUI Meiji epoch the epoch the period of ot en enlightened rule began in III 1368 and marked the death of ot feudalism In Japan It It would of ot course be going coins too far the article says say to seek an exact exact ex ex- ex- ex act parallel In the conditions e existing today but hero are certain sl significant significant sig sig- points of ot resemblance In the first place tho the workers of ot Japan have been d deeply stirred by the victories of ot labor in the tho western world Secondly Secondly Sec Sea not hot only the tho workers but the middle class as well have been exploited ex ex- ex exploited d shamelessly by profiteers And thirdly side by side with this ferment the product of the war and contemporary contemporary happenings there thero exists an agitation of ot longer standing the standing the de demand de e- e mand for universal suffrage It Is 13 necessary to look at the situation as asa asa a n. whole 1 If th the true tree Importance of such Incidents as the dissolution of ot the diet and the strike riots at t the great Iron works Is la to be appreciated I Tho The Immediate trouble however Is I probably economic rather than Industrial industrial Indus indus- trial or political But for tor the excesses of capI capitalism students of Japanese affairs would have considered any considerable spread of socialistic doc doe doctrines trines almost unthinkable among a a. people peo the throne in such pe peculiar ullar rever reverence nce As It Is three translations ns of Karl Marx have been published In Toh Tokyo o In hi as ns many months and or organizations which aim at advancing the tho powers of the tho proletariat proletariat pro pro- report despite persecution a steady growth of membership It would seem nevertheless that the great reat majority of ot the people are far tar from ripe for tor a a 3 revolution In the Russian or even the German sense senses Opposing J parties like the two great neat student leagues one of ot which is progressive progressive pro pro- and the other avow avowedly dl re reactionary reactionary reactionary re- re ahe prepared to Join forces in sweeping the capitalist class bodily bodily bod bod- ily fly away but bat the tho emperor has hitherto hitherto hitherto hith hith- erto been held free from blame for tor the evils of ot the times It remains to be seen how far and In what direction the Imperial dissolving the diet will wUl modify the tho position When the curtain Is lifted on current current cur car rent cY events I expect to find three factors playing Important roles In the drama First there will be Sen Katayama Katayama Kata- Kata yama the he Socialist leader a well well- known figure In the second Then there will be Mr Imal ImM an nn Osaki lawyer who heads the Roco Reco the most influential of the organizations formed for tor the betterment better botter ment meet of ot the workers worker lot The third will wUl be Mr Oka the tho bead of ot the Japanese Jap Jap- anese pol police co system and a man of Iron who has bas long IonS been making rea ready y to fight to the tho death any attempt ata at ata a a. revolt or general strike and whose whoso methods have been widely criticised