Japanese Rural Population's Utter Lack of Sympatyé for Quake Victims in Towns From: Our Own Correiponient, Tokio, Apr. 2.
Bake tore we ranging tei titi. of these county cousins Violent thrusts and parties. ate being made "in "the "mbtrepolitan press by the country people do: fending themselves and the towns folk insisting that the earthquake Proved that. the people of. the gions, when the. test ca were Ineking' in the fundamentals When the calamity of September broke loose. early every Japanese in Tokio and Yokotunin conjured this tmind's eyo. his country wes. The country" seemed to bbe such an Arendin, with, 50 it was thought, the good folks bursting with anxiety to sist victims. But the average io ite complains that the disillusionment wus ay painful as it was rou Country people, go complain denizens of The cities, looked upon. the visitations on Tokio and Yokohara ae richly deserved—as the finger of God, smiting them for their wickedness, The country axed with having given all manner of sanctious stirs aad delivering clever ie luxury and sinful had drawn, heavenly wrath, country folk changed that is being columns of the magazines with even ardour than the for defeating the the coming general As a matter of fact, of unbiased opinion country folks have not changed one whit, What hus hyp:
Tis that Tokio people over: nity of the ry relative, and forget that, whether urban or royal, a human is at the best but a chun fun, ins vested largely with the same vicious tendevictos over which the Saints have mourned from time immemorial, The country people generally took the stand that God helps him who helps himself and watched to see the refugees help themselves first.
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