The Archive · 1904

Press Opinions

The Tokio papers are not compleicly sanguine, and in welcoming the new otis toute betwoon the Cabinet and the parties, even the semi-oficial "Kokumin" clares that there are some unsatisfactory points in the new agreement, but has reason to congratulate both the Govern. ment and the parties on the conclusion of the entente, ensuring ce-operation on all the more important questions. The party alliance with the Government cut down certain proposed charges, but it has no appreciable effect on the popular burden. What the parties achieved is merely a difference in the objects of imposition of the necessary Government taxes. Meaawhile, the present account of the situa-

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