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Show "Why tho Japanese Can. Fight. A writer in the March Issue of nar-per'a nar-per'a Weekly traces the remarkable efficiency ef-ficiency of Japan's lighting force to threo causes.: ilrst, the feudal system of the country, which bred a governing class, an order of men accustomed to command com-mand and to be obeyed, from whom the generals and olllcers of the army, aa well as tho statesmen and lawgivers, are drawn. Second, tho immense class of small furraers, who for ages have had to strain every nerve, to exert the utmost self-reliance, to ranko a living from their two-acre farms; fr,cm this sturdy class, with their out-door training train-ing In a rigorous climate, are drawn the tough and wiry privates of the Japanese Japa-nese army. A third element of success lies in tho Japanese gift for craftsmanship, craftsman-ship, the perfect command of materials ma-terials exercised through centuries, the skill In working metals, which mado it tx) easy for the Japanese to construct and run their own arsenals, and even Invent and perfect their own service rifles. Finally, tho entire opcnneBs of the Japanese mind. "They had nothing to forget, nothing to unlearn; Japan had never produced a religion to turn men's minds to dreams of another world; sho had no poetry, no literature, no music, no outlet at all for moral energies, beyond be-yond a trick of decorative art, pleasing but never profound; therefore all her mental energies were Instantly available avail-able when circumstances, In the form of Commodore Perry's aauadrou, brought her the message of modernity," 1 |