That there was an opposition, smaly and insignificant, but bitter, is, however, certain, and in cours Of time that ition will, L think, be thy most serious factor Japan will' have to reel with in its internal politics as well as in its external relations. refer to the jingoistic and half-educated people—a rapidly increasing class—who resent anything that looks like submission to foreign Powers, and who approve, above all things, of a strong foreign policy, whatever be the consequences. 'These' people were furious when they heard that Russia had been graciously pleased to set no limit to the humber of troops Japan was going to send to China," and when Germany did not communicate to Japan the fact that she was sending out a large army, though Japan had' previously gone round hat in hand telling the Powers all she was going to do and how she w: going to do it. This class of people is aki to the sele-tormentors whom one meets with sometimes in real fife, the persons (generally ladies) who translate absent-mindedness on the part of oth rs into deliberate affcunt, and why injure rheic digestion in hotels. by worrying over fancied shortcomings in the attendance,
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