Show WEBSTERS WEBSTER'S INFLUENCE ON N JAPANESE EMPIRE A most interesting sketch of ot the c changes which came to Japan after Commodore Perry Terry landed on the shores of ot Japan has been given by General Win Wm erbeck head of oC St. St Johns John's Military school at Manlius K N. Y V. The general was born in and ond lived there until he was seventeen years old He tells of ot the which governed Ja Japan Ja- Ja Japan pan and then the restoration of ot the hallo O by American forces The TuIe was a dynasty dynast of C generals generala and statesmen which lasted d for or about bout years Can said General The Tho premiers were vero e not but they actual actual- actually ly h governed Japan Tho The Mikado as es only a figurehead la the latter part of the and fud early part of oC the tho sev sev- seventeenth century was was the first to Dike take lkc the thc real un leadership leader 1 l hp and slab established I the dynasty of o Shoguns I which sated lasted until 1868 so that I J. J AS s living n t Japan JA al and cognizant II as fc aro are cognizant cog zant of ot the tho tlE j e of cC the taj Shoguns uns or Tycoons nG Tbt fail rail of too tho or Toku Toku- Cw tats ns directly duo to Amer lea Ica This Thia rc rc the ilia Mikado r ia his pristine power Vor as ho is 15 to to- tolay today day lay lir an absolute monarch America la is responsible r spon for this thill Daniel Webster went wont to nil and ODd recommended mOD that tho w i j send a fleet Cleet to ask the Japanese to open up their hermit nation This was wal about 1861 1561 Nothing was as done until 1554 1854 when Commodore Commod re Peery went there and very vcr politely In Jm Insisted I listel that she make mako treaties and andI r 10 have havo a consul general generali I i here there This T consul general generel I was to toI I I have hae ha e almost ambassadorial powers So that Daniel Webster really dis discovered discovered I covered r Japan although Commo Comma Commodore Commodore dore More Perry did the lie actual work I This is 18 a piece of ot history worth preserving and anel discloses s how great groat i was as Websters Webster's power in n shaping the destiny d of Japan Ja na |