| Show Council I of 0 f Elder EId er Statesmen S t the te h Big B Ig Four F our of ff J apan I I f ij of ot otT IE recent departure Ho Ita on a 11 spot t ji II mission to Korea T Although nt lit present I II holdo no In the tho government ex C c pt tho rather tit b a 11 of at the council o 0 oto cull dl alien R TM to IU WUI f lIP nen bOily hl h Is Iho tho tl a to I II on earth Irth It is 11 IH oC interesting because r d t 1 or 01 less II R mystifying U dispatches 1 it u i II iii II news n Q u It has been heen I f II U l 1 f conference by the tho then r InlO n llIO to eclipse and governing body bolly t t III or Ih of ot elder states thOUgh i official It Is only nd r or IS 11 h lit power so far as ItS ason MY proposition Is con COli conJ on y N J 11 gives the emperor filed Jt counsel of ot the great grent i t it I made mado modern Japan an anS I hO v of 0 i h i Y in western parlance S SOIl iVi ft It I cabinet Ii 1 e 11 men who whop of or me i p lI use Ue 11 I i IM would appellation juch ludl tin n ld r e the tho At i ill do with of oC what whal to 10 the rt a n problem with I Is sometimes gh yet It t n 11 doubtful If It tho Japa vork orle In most coun COUll rIm the tho United States Is 85 11 WJ council ot at on 1111 to d nuke slates I of at elder rJ I roll It four fow rn Count Inouye tie pi pl Ito MS a miJ Jul pta I i u Is doubtful If It four men could coulden b en Cn 11 whO ho have played a apart 1 part pall in evolution of oC Japan M could give glo moio molo au aut tr tt advice in iii the Ibe CL ent crisis Kach Is S lone lorne ono direction or In some espo t I I dp nt of DC K eminent Ho Is IsI conservative master tf I c 1 I the tho more rudl I rn m of ot affairs Mill Mai ike Rift Irr It finance minister and tic lighter and military Th hii ti Is IR tho Jap Tal name of oC statesmen was wasi i for Cor the Ibe new t il 1 is to be composed of at those i t i I nl r especially famous In III fil II Ii n i n 1 more t r ii nl but death has In It Is IJ t j 11 i r k I C 7 r P mr lur i or only Oil calls It Into Inton r e n II it Il Now ow nd J i IK k do o is not lIot a 11 light matter I id dl i II C un fl him unwisely unwise u 1 in 11 it t vis laR severely punish t it II m I i II i ii 1111 it imko lIleo f ii 11 I i Ih mi on a II step t i The other statesmen I J uth uch u It mova Inexpedient nt ol m In hi other words tho k Ii IId d was pronounced I R 11 II r he hc suffered Ii i ai M in and novel noyel noveli i i my illY voice Inthe gov goVI I This law i l ut the tho spirit that i ii s yet lives Ire I I that none nOIl of at tho J f ii needs tho check v That Is the th d i rs r I II ti 1 RI and by h nl al alJ e i J ii it iD iI if it r i nn Is Ho Hoi i i j m IMI Ho WIIt t j ot Cho In 18 1840 0 D lull nl H and r I u i It Jl f r 1 I M of or liln hIli t r tv 1 t 1 I is lH lil Ills violent opposition 1 a j t ii 11 n of I J l V t dim h Into T j v l n ur rj him II 1111 to run lie JIe went to England saw a new world was converted conert ll to hla hili own country ho became the tho lender In III InUs Us Ita modernization 1 ho he von tho ear of oC tho emperor convinced him that thc tho Land ot tho Sun could novel nover become a II nation nollon until nho embraced Then Ito helped overthrow the tho and vas ono of oC the tho principal factors In ng IlIg the emperor on tho throne This cd and rugged and ond the two predominant nant characteristics ore arc kindliness anti shrewdness The Tho of ot Is I a In Interwoven 1 with that of or Ito that the two should be told together Tho men mell arc of oC almost the same ole age were welo horn born In Inthe the name HUlne province and have been beell the warmest from hoho II was ns always moio und and and IIII to O as 18 a II young n l I more 10 I change e could bo ho offered him Having oaten they thoy went lit nf uC after which they set lot to work worl to gain an education This was wall cut lion ever by their hearing ot of lighting between their th lr home province of or Cho hlll ami the foreign find by h this time lime convened to 10 western they haHt noil homo to 10 their ell of ot the folly foil of oC fight ji Ins the tho occidental powers she aho wrapped him In cotton and nursed him back to life It was nt lit this that one of ot the prettiest Incidents In the life of oC Ho llo occurred He was Willi at ut attached like Ms his friend but succeeded In escaping ell after killing one of ot his hl would bo assassins Ho lie lied fled to ho the homo of at n geisha girl whom he ho loved and she hid him under the tho Moor his life liCe refusing to disclose his hili hereabouts eVen when dragged about slon about aboul sixteen cars ngo ogo held the portfolio of Dt education He lie was also minister to Berlin n position that his hisson hisson son now As All long Ion ngo us liS Japan was WS cast castIng Ing eyes Cell at Korea and In that year was sent on a 1 mis mission sion to then dependency It wan wu aln crucial time In the tho history of tho ot HIP Morning Calm and tho service tendered by b the Japanese was In but the tho young reformer by byer very er force Coree of character lumo to the Iho forefront and there he ho hUll has remained Ho became premier and the Iho trusted ad adviser Iser of oC the mikado He drafted the new constitution and wa Willi Its chief ad advocate until It wan adopted He wan Willi nt ot the head of affairs In III putting down the famous Tactful knotting just how hOll fast ho could go and not II I to the people lie ho moved steadily toward the goal he hc hud In view tho transformation of Ills his coun country try tY Into ono of oC thu tho enlightened therefore one of ot the powerful nations of the worM world the tho mote ar 01 reformers diplomatic mid gentle of ot speech he ho succeeded In III winning to himself n 1 persona per following that held him In III power oven Iwen when the tho majority of at tho parliament or 01 Hot as ilK It was 1114 called opposed hili views He 10 was In III power at It the tho time limo of ot tho Avar and had much to do In bring bringing ing about bollt the tho brilliant result of that struggle le Hut In III tho succeeding negotiation when Hussla HURSIn and two to other powers combined to wrest Japan the fruits of or her hOl Ho from thu tho resentment his hlA people felt fell though ho was 11 In III no 10 Mene to lo blame bin me They thought him too conciliatory however and ho wont went out of ot power Later Intel ho came back bace to tho Iho for u II short time but two or 01 ngoA It 11 must not be he un understood by h tho way that t ho was Willi con constantly premier even evon prior to tho Chi nr There Thore were breaks for stormy times hilt but nil tho ups UP downs Ho Ito was US the tho giant In personal appearance this greatest of ot oriental statesmen Is rather tall for fora forI a I Jap with a t chunky body hod and strong physique lh rIUO what Is rare In the tho far cast an nil adult beard Hl Ills face Is seam Count THE TUE MEN BEHIND THE TUE THRONE lent In his proclivities It was he that thU led the attack on the Eng English English lish American and Dutch consulates In which those buildings wore Soon after both bolh Inoue Inouye and Ho were proscribed by the government and It Il was this which caused them to run rUIt runaway away from their country Though of ot birth they became common sail sailors ors on 01 an nn ship landed In lit London with only 2 between them of oC tho was wall tossed up to tolIe lIe who should go O for bread bren and the I I choice fell on Oil Inouye e to n bakery haker he laid down tho Iho grab grabbed lIb I bell bed a 11 loaf ot bread lied before I I I now became as os ardent an all ad nd of modernizing hla country as os osho ho had before been a hotel hater of things alien So eager enel did ho grow ns os a n re reform form advocate that ho often endanger endangered ed ell his hili life At one ho was 1 attacked with knives left for dead In the snow revived by II the cold he dragged himself homeward where ho he begged his mother for tor his hla sword that ho might commit the Japanese form Corm of oC suicide ns OR he hc considered the fact thai ho had been an 1111 Insult and a n disgrace His voice was no weak however that his mother did not understand him und and In the room by h the hair For this tile the com coming I ing IlIg premier married her herKo Ko SO close was the friendship between bot Ito tu and Inouye that the former formel on moro more than ono one occasion refused to take the tho premiership unless his hll more extreme radical associate n might be with him In tho cabinet This friendship o fully although often Impatient with what he considered tho Iho I too conservative conciliatory policy of ot his hili chief Tho two known ns liS the reform statesmen of ot Japan Count Inouye was Willi frequently the min minister ister of ot foreign affairs at other times finance minister on one occa statesman Ime him the tho friendship ot t the tho men nt the bond hond of ur Korean I affairs a It Jl OI for this lenson that yonn oal later Inter when tho Japanese were of murdering tho Korean 0 was again on all n special mission to Seoul and lIld succeeded In III preventing an open rupture between the tho two cOlin coun countries tries Inouye Is of at the reformer type reso rello resolute lute outspoken stands second only to 10 Ito as 1111 tho Iho author of oC tho now new or order der In Japan Count Ii Is tho son Hon of ot n a military retainer of ot tho Iho clan cia II and horn born la III 1835 he the other members of ot the tho genro ho took I i tF tart In the tho revolution of oC that overthrew the un and placed the securely on the throne h j He e was at III times finance min minster 1 It p j ster Ister holding tho ho lit all 1111 about 1 fourteen yearn CarN mid Hurl twice l was premier f Perhaps most note noteworthy tl II worthy accomplishment WOK wan In 1877 at tho time of the tho disastrous Satsuma re reo t t Ho found the Iho country countr Hooded J with n vast ast amount 11 t of oC Inconvertible J l paper per currency which he ho 1 and brought to an accomplish la fl t ment that the Japanese believe bellee I ilde 0 Ui their phenomenal Industrial and eco economic r t development possible Among Ills other achievements arc the land tax i reform the organization and Inti central centralization r of oC the fiscal nerol administration the tha t establishment of oC a n modern banking and the founding ot an Indus Industrial trial bink Ho also managed the mone monetary tary of oC the empire through h the j war wor a 11 I loan In III London and brought the I currency again to 10 a II stable at tha end of ot the He had hilll the bold bol i new to In try tr all and se select lect leet what seemed scorned most practical Ha Hal l Is the author of oC n imper that has become tin In western na nations lions Moi cover lie he told tho people of ot Japan bluntly that they th were wem not SUm suin provident quoted the sta statistics ot at III In foreign nations to 10 prove his statement He la Is laa a It man ot oC great t moral courage co and firm firmness ness II Marquis like Ito I I and Inouye come Ho HoIs Is about jears ea r of or age Is known as nil the little gray man and Is In the tho military hero of oC JiL nn As a n mere stripling of oC twenty lm hu defeated men with 2000 when hell a n aimy sought to hili province He Ho was second In command In III the revolution that threw the hogun in III 1865 tho i event that marked the beginning h of ot the iov regime In III the Flowery Kingdom Ho even een Ito an un of at office lice fice which he has held frequently since He has hall also been minister of ot war In va various a I rious and ond more to do llo perhaps than any nn other othor man with tho evolution of oC the Japanese 0 army An All event that shows his devotion to country has hall a touch louch of oC the pathetic It relates to 10 the tho of ot nuke Duke in his hili brother to 10 Invade Korea to which reference has already been bee II made molle This the dill did not hesitate to oppose though ll It meant his brothers downfall and Imprisonment Another nother Important rendered his hili country was Willi during the re rebellion reo bellion of oC 1877 led lell by b his old friend Sui go was ono one of ot the chief on tho lIdo of ot the tho govern government ment and finally brought blought the rebellion to u n close by h n personal appeal to tD The Tho event that made tho popular Idol of at Japan hw h hever ever was his hIli brilliant victory victor over oer Chinese nl III the tho memorable battle of oC during the war After the close of ot the war he ho re retired retired tired from active In III the army arm but retained his hili title of ot Held marshal was n great admirer nil of ot General whom ho assisted In III entertaining when the Iho American chief visited Inpan on hla hili way around the world Yearn later when holl the Jap wan warrior lor passed New York on ont way 11 as 9 ambassador lo to the tho coronation of ot the tho czar Lr the first point he expressed a n desire lo to visit Inn Grants In Riverside 1011 This wan 11 his hili third to tn till the United States for COI which country he has always ex expressed pressed tho affection These are 1110 the Iho big bl four who more than any other men living or dead have contributed to the making of or mod modern modern ern Japan It Jl Is peculiarly fitting thai they should bo ho net lot aside In a body hody of ot advisers to Iho emperor whom upon till the whom they have served BO long and so faithfully J A |
