How can this progressive city class keep in touch with the slowcing country class and patiently lead it toward a better existence. [Tis is the real problem of present. day China. I well remember a Jeonversation with Marquis Ito in 11902 when we were fellow passengers from Genoa to Shanghai. He was returning to Japan after having negotiated the, Anglo-Fapanese Alliance. He asked me one day what part of the great changes in Japan had most impressed me and Trplied hat it was the way, a small group of men like Winaeit had been able to carry the deadweight of Jupan's ignorant population on their shoulders and to land' them successfully ina new jara. Marquis Ito remarked that it Jeould only have been accomplished by the closest cooperation among Jmembers of the group and unremitefforts to keep in touch the common people, jin political achiev Jeomplished by n betterment of the conditions of the masses,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.