| Show t 1 MONGOLIAN ADVANCES l The Independent prints a warm eulogy on a Japanese eentlehicn yo Ulchi Fukuzawa who has Just died and gives him chlefest credit for the modern mod-ern transformation of Japan He visited Europe and America in thee the-e rly sixties < and made a thorough study of Western ways and civilization and returnng home opened a school and started a newspaper to begin the change in the thoughts and ways of his countrymen which he felt must come All the time he would accept no office he Insisted that he was only a private citizen and would never be any thing else but when he died the other day tho Emperor paid his funeral expenses foreigners and natives alike vied with each other to heap laudations upon his memory and the House of Representatives Representa-tives passed unanimously a resolution in which he was described as leading < < the van of ivIl1zed Civilized progress and contributing con-tributing largely to the cause of education educa-tion When he began his work of regenerating regener-ating his country tho United States had a Minister in Japan Ihc Hon Charles E Dc Long who JoIned with him and was of vast assistance to him and to they chiefs of the Government thore in starting on their new career He went with the Prime Minister of Japan In the Japanese fleet to the Chinese asl Just when the fleets of England and France were threatening an Jnvusipn I of China to force recognition from that Government Then were formal visits I of courtesy between thp Tnnnr Cr i U Premier and LI Hung Chang and tho Question was how to avoid war and GUll not make a clean back down De Long suggested the way It was that the Japanese Premier should pay a forma state visit as a brother Mongolian and thlB being over the other powers could be Imfonncd that through Japanese in I fluence China had decided to change her policy and would be glad to receive I tha authorized representatives of the I Western powers At the same Interview Dc Long urged upon the Chinese Premier that China should adopt Japans plan to modernize China The answer was that China did not calc todntrortl r WiP foreign teachers that Phe already hAd students In Eu loP nPcho ° l3 and that upon thel ic1 turn the change would he cbmmciM That was thirty years ago Since then there has been the ChlnescJapa J nose warbut while Japan JB thorough the advance has been I ly modernized most alow in China It is hard to break the Inertia of four I thousand years hard to ifvolutlonlze the social and In any reasonable time political rule of four hundred millions Of people |
