Show LITTLE SOCIALISM I 1 IN N JAPAN and the rea contention freely made not borne out by sort or given published fact facts although statistics were ere once deprecated as 0 being only another method of telling heathey hes they appear to have di dispersing s of effectually served the purpose one of the arguments oo 00 which certain publicists in japan base the assertion that the country is rapidly becoming socialistic this argument w was as that a tendency existed for con considerable sid erable tracts of land to pass out of the possession of small farmers into the hands of large agri culturists with abc inevitable re result sult that many people were exchanging a position of independence for one of labor at a daily wage in the contention was accepted with general complaisance until recently a native journal came out with statistics shou showing im 0 that if an change has ling taken place it ba has bai i been in a direction the exact reverse of that alleged for the number of those thoe who farm their own oln land hse hai increased in the last ten tell scars cars on oil the whole the figures go to show very conclusively says MY the japan weekly mail 1 that while there has been an increase of the manufacturing population the rural population ins lills suffered little if at all and consequent consequently the pred predictions actions about the ap of socialism are not borne out by actual statistics |