The evidence is not of a nature to warrant reproduction here, On behalf of the accused it must be mentioned that he claims that, the loose and low proceedings went on without. his knowledge; that his and "servants" had full charge of the place; and that he has been sick in hed for some time. He prayed his Honour to take these facts into consideration, ax well as the immorality practised in the country they lived in", and his Honour apparently did take them ints consideration, as T learn by wire this afternoon that although the accused was found guilty, only aw fine of $25 and costs was inflicted. hus endeth the present case. As to the lom of bringing an accusation of the kind against a foreigner sufficiently debased to tolerate anything of the kind to which Mr. Copeland (at one time a respec! resident of Yokohama) has, it seems himself, there can be no "question there is doubtless cause for gratification in the fact that the Japanese authorities are Destirring themselves in this nasty business, nur by what process of reasoning they justify their action vis d-vis a few low, abandoned aliens, while they habitually cisely similar offences committed by the Is, Tam at a loss to perceive. There reason of course, and an excellent reason beyond a doubt, as we shall perhaps learn in due course from the columns of that admirable literary journal the Japan Daily Mail, when it feels called upon to enter the lists of controversy. The simple and unsophisticated, however, be puzzled to explain why an out-of-the-way geo-shop or beer saloon is hunted down, while apparently respectable and first-class hotels are permitted to do very much the same thing without interruption or any risk of exposure. To people who know what oes on here such action as this which the japanese have now entered upon savours of the utmost hollowness and hypocrisy. T do not blame them for prosecuting a fow foreigners—it is indirect and I doubt not unconscious testimony to the foreigners' higher moral code—but for the sake of consistency, if the Japanese know what consistency' is, for Heaven's sake hunt down and punish the innumerable army of Japanese too who batten on the weaknesses and moral sins of their visitors. There are good women and virtuous here, chaste daughters, faithful, self-denying mothers, in this country as in all other countries, but to attempt to persuade Christendom that the moral standard here is not in any way below the standard in Europe and America is to essay the impossible, and the sooner the Japanese and their ill-advised advisers recognise it, the better for all, and for their own real welfare as much as anything.
Kobe, 22nd June.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.