The cleansing that the police have begun may purify the city's political atmosphere, but so long as money can buy votes and he plums of the service to friends and relatives—as isthe case to-day one.ean never safely say. that the malady will be totally eliminated, Nepotism is the biggest curse the municipality of Tokyo afflicted with.
Hf, by virtue of an Imperial! proclamation, the city of Tokyo is placed under a' rigid Government department, at, least until recon struction is accomplished, it will [be the finest thing that has ever happened to the. city yet. The general publié'is not likely to kick at drastic measures like this, for the man in the street is heartily tired of the corruption and wrangling, tired to the extent that he is losing all respect for the City Fathers.
Tt wouldn't be a bad idea at all Yor the Government to take the of Tokyo under its purge it of its present! vices and, in the interim, educate the people of a proper conception and knowledge of the difficult art of self-government.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.