It was certainly the most peculiar riot Lever witnessed. The police were there—one thouswd strong—but they treated Jiemos with the most distinguished courtesy and Demos on his part kowtowed to them most politely whenever they made their oppe-rance. The police were not able to do much on account of their numerical wenkness—they were unible to do anything indeed for what those mild and courteous rioters did not smash they burned ~-but it is somewhat singular that few or no arrests were made.
This scene might be made an appropriate peg whereon to hang much moralizing anent the future Japanese working-man, with his education, his ignorance vf religion, his Trades Unions, and_ perhaps his Socialism or Nihilism, Wut I only mention it to show that with the country apparently on the verge of war with a first-class European Power the Japmese working-mun did not appear to care a rap. They ike about popular clamour, popular excite moutand all that sort of thing in Japan, but in my opinion che great bulk of the people attend to their paddy-fields and their other ways of m-ney getting and leave polities, domestic and foreign alike, to a knot. professional politicians mainly, Judging by the evil that is often is ought in critical tumes in countries where the popular voice is all-powerful and where the interest which "even the passant" takes in foreign polities ix not only keen but embarrasing, one might bs inclined to Guuk ai happy With her wise oligarchy Unk tunately, however, the oligarchy seems ble to be curried away by the allurement of military glory xs an up-to-late democracy.
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