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Show MANY CONDEMN OIET OF JAPAN Failure of Nippon Congress io Enact Reform Laws Brings Censure TOKIO, Sept. i.- (Correspondence) Public opinion, as Voiced In the Japanese Jap-anese pnesSi Is far from satisfied with the charactei of the proceedings In the sosslon of the diet Just closed and is particular! cotidem nator of the failure fail-ure to lake better advantages of opportunities op-portunities to push constitutional development.' de-velopment.' Speeches in the House of Kepresentali ves. t specially by sonic of ihe yo lings i members, snowed the -Istencp of a movement of llberaiigmi but '.he pres.s is bitter o er the fact that the opposition paiMi.-s failed to make use of then power In a manner sufficient to exact reforms. POP! I ill ISY I HE KI A review of the session of the llouso of Itepre.sentatlve.s shows that it was noisv. eV-ii riotous in nature, tbai, be-, sides the queetioii of granting unixer-sal unixer-sal suffrage, it devotei itself to matters mat-ters of a transitory or pei"sonal nature, and that with the exception of the well-known iTuklo Olaki, there was no iiari at tuck on militarism or military influence whitii is mill regarded as being all powerful in Japan It Is evident, however, that a iegin-mng iegin-mng has been made in voicing the popular pop-ular cry for political reforms, ibis being be-ing especially noticeable in liie pressing press-ing clamor of the suffragists that all the oung men of th empire be given the right to vole and that, in a general w iv . liberty of speech within and without with-out the diet sha.ll be absolutely puar anteej. IIIitKALIvM 9PREAJ)S The ll"'-,b "r Asia, an influential WSegl) edited by Japanese in the Kng-llsh Kng-llsh language, s-ivs ihe preneni condition condi-tion of parliament i government I" Japan falls short of general expectations expecta-tions but it 1 not so pessimistic as to believe in ihe absolute failure of the Democratic movement. The journal offers a-s proof of the spread of democracy democ-racy tbe trend ot thought among the intelligent sections of the people, es- . peciallv the riainjf generation. Jt notes that democracy is one of tbe most dls- j tinctlva characteristics ot the contents of the periodical press Kut rlemocracy seemed relatively weak In political clr-, clcs. The truth is, wrote the editor, thut under the existing limited suffrage the classes of people among wnum democ-racj democ-racj Is malung headway are debairnd from sending representatives to the lower chamber of the diet, "Consequently "Conse-quently " continued the article, "that important body is hardly touched by the great wave of liberalism tnul is sweeping the land We. bee Ihe anomalous ano-malous spectacle of the 'supposed representative's rep-resentative's of tire people remaining as a whole, in the same Condition of ignorant ig-norant and Inaptitude as they were JO vitars as. Lut sooner or later, the Suffrage will be still further extended so as to enable the educated - young men to have a say in parliamentary elections hen that day conies and ii will probably come Sooner than most people imag.ii.- an important revolution Is bound to be ibe Immediate Immedi-ate result in the pblfllcal world ( 3a pan ' |