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Show plifiiil WORLD DEMQCRACY Japanese Cabinet Minister, in Salt Lake, Discusses , Social Trend. PRAISES U. S. COURSE ' Declares Japan Is Surprised at Military Adeptness,of United States. Recognized as one of the foremost of the Democratic loaders of Japan, Dr. R-" R-" Nagai. lirnt secretary in the cabinet of Marquis Oku ma and professor of political and economic science at Waseda university, univer-sity, Tokio. who is on a semiofficial mission mis-sion to tne, United States for the purpose of making a study of war conditions, registered reg-istered yesterday at the Hotel Utah and addressed a meeting of his fellow countrymen coun-trymen lust night at Mackintosh hall. He will leave at noon today for Washington Wash-ington and New York, stopping en route at Chicago. He expects to spend at least a year in this country before returning to Japan. ' Dr. Xagai. who is also editor of Marquis Mar-quis Okuma's official organ. Shin Nippon Nip-pon (New Japan), speaks English fluently and is a powerful and convincing speak-; speak-; ?r. He is an ardent champion of de-' de-' mocracy and a deep student of history. , '-The democracy of Japan is the un- i Compromising foe of autocracy and bu reaucracy." said Dr. Nagai, "and it will ! he recalled that it was the Okuma gov- eminent which declared war on Ger- ; many. I am here to study social, politi cal and economic wax conditions, as well as to investigate the Jiving conditions of Japanese labor in this country. Surprised at U- S. "We in Japan had some, doubts as to ! whether the United States could successfully success-fully raise an army by means of con- : scription, and we doubted the military value of a drafted army raised in the United States. Frankly, it was much to our surprise that your .soldiers have proved more than a match for the Germans. Ger-mans. The people of Japam. have come to believe in the honesty, sincerity of purpose and determination of the United. States in this conflict. Upon the com- lusion of the war, whether the allies win or lose, the center of the world's civilization civ-ilization will move from Europe to America. Amer-ica. The United States is the forerunner of a democratized world, for it is in this country that the people will first come to the conclusion that political democracy is impossible without industrial de- , mocracy, and that, as in the case of the , Roman republic. political democracy i cannot continue to live, in the face of j economic pressure, side by side with industrial in-dustrial autocracy. . J Must Become Democratic. ' "All the nations of the earth, even Japan, Vill become democratic. War conditions have brought the highest i .wages to labor, and labor will resist any attempt to -decrease wages after the war. Women will not leave men's places which -ihey have taken during the conflict, and, Q-.oreover, the employers would not dis- L pense with them even though they were willing to leave. Their services are ; i cheaper. "War work is going forward in the United States on a scale that staggers the Imagination, but the inevitable unemployment un-employment problem will present Itself after the war, when the demand for ammunition am-munition and supplies ceases. Many new industrial problems will demand solution, and then will come the irresistible de- . mand of the people for equality of opportunity. oppor-tunity. Our own experience in the re- . cent "rice" riots in Japan points to the fact that, among other problems, the concentration con-centration of the land In a few hands is a problem that presses for "solution. Japan now discountenances such concentration. concen-tration. "The armies of the world are fighting for liberty and democracy, and, as capl-lal capl-lal and lahc-r are righting side by side for Ibis end. they must share the reward equally, or a war of the classes is in- evltable at the close of the present hostilities. hos-tilities. The Napoleonic wars ushered In the dawn of a new nationalism, while this world-war means the dawn of an international inter-national liberalism. The United States is the leader in this movement. "The recent fail of the Japanese cabinet, cabi-net, of which Field Marshal Count Terauchi was the prime minister was brought about by 'reason of the fact that It came under the sway of the militarists and the bureaucracy. The' young Japanese Japa-nese arose en masse against Terauchi and his ministry. The 'rice' riots were the expression of the people's indignation indigna-tion against the profiteers. The new cabinet has not as yet been formed to replace the Terauchi cabinet, hut it will be a liberal cabinet, whose watchword will be 'Skalteki Minshugi, which meana 'World Democracy.' " Yesterday afternoon Dr. Nagal visited Fort Douglas, being escorted by Y. Nlsh-imura, Nlsh-imura, secretary of the local Japanese fraternity, and a committee of the organization. |