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WHAT A JAPANESE SOCIALIST
HAS TO SAY.
Down: at Manhattan Beach dwells
temporarily Sen Katayama of Japan.
He is or was one of the aggressive
Socialist leaders of his country. Be
fore leaving there he had the exper
ience of working ten hours a day in a
Tokio printing shop for the munificent
sum of 7 Vi cents a day. so he is
speaking from experience when he
tells of the Japanese workingman. He
is a graduate of Grlnnell College,Iowa,
and spent two years at Andover and
Yale studying socialogy. That was
before he returned to Japan to devote
his life to socialism.
“Japan is the Prussia of the Orient."
said Mr. Katayama, contradicting the
assertion made in Washington by a
member of the Japanese War Mission.
“This is true, especially in a mili
tary and in a imperialistic sense.
The Japanese Government also imi
tated Prussia’s educational and army
systems. We have three kinds of
clfctions, just as in Prussia. Tl .re
are taxing and educational repuire
ments for voting. Men’s suffrage is
very limited—1,500,000 out of a 70,
000.000 population are emfranchised.
in fact the voting right has a com
mercial value, in order to 1 >r a can
didate a man must be worth between
$15,000 and $30,000. Women are not
allowed to attend political meetings.
Education in Japan is quite advanced.
We have compulsory education in the
grammar schools, and we have high
schools and universities, though not
enough of the latter.”
“Our universities are copied from
the Gorman universities, but that is I
the only good thing we have learned i
from them. W!e have copied all the j
bureaucratic policies, such as the po
lice system, but we adopted none of!
their admirable labor protection laws.
Last September a factory law was
passed allowing a thirteen or fourteen
hour day. Girls over twelve years of
■age can be worked twelve hours In a
night. Women and children are more
exploited than men in Japi.i ,\ fac
tory 'belonging to the spinning indus
try employs 800 to 1,000 hands. Each
year it must employ an entire quota of
new laborers. The old workers are
worn out and they do not recuperate.
A half year wears them out. In
other words we have legallized ex
ploitation in Japan. Since the war
there hdve been many strikes for
higher wages. We have no labor or
ganization, nor do we need one. It
is easy for us to get together. We
understand each other; we speak the
tame language. Food prices are high
er, and the capitalists will not raise
wages without strikes.”
Mr. Katayama was asked how the
War had affected conditions in Japan.
"The rich have become richer and
the poor have become poorer," he
said.
"Two years ago two thousand mil
lionaires sprang up on account of the
war. But a farmer's family of tive
must live on $5 a month while prices
sour. Japan had $1,50,000,000 in gold
before the war. Now it has $425,000,
000 and this Is increasing every mo
ment. Not until 1915 did we ever ex
port more than we imported. Now
we have a large excess of export. The
government is a big profitmaker now.
It has earned money selling munitions,
while taxes, income, and custom dut
ies add to its wealth.
"Kvory move toward socialism is
suppressed In Japan. The government
is very reactionary. But. the people
are thinking toward socialism. If
J..;aiii: e past history tells anything',
a revolution is not Improbable.. The
present rulers canto into power thru
a revolution. Japanese history sanc
tions revolutions, but hitherto those
who have overturned the feudal law
have become as reactionary as their
predecessors.
“There is as much dissatisfaction in
Japan now as there was in Russia.
Recently in the Imperial Diet the Gov
ernment stopped free speech for
the tirst time. It was afraid.
Scone one was attacking the Govern
ment Budget, and the Pari 'anientary
report told the public about it. When
the present ministry came inlo power,
at tint it had little political influence
anJ was lenient toward developing
movements, but, guinging more power,
it became more reactionary. The
liberal papers are suppressed; meet
ings are dissolved. It fears the effect
of the Russian Revolution.
"The Japanese people did not want
to go into the war. Five or six years
ago the army and navy became un
popular because of great scandals.
Several Generals took bribes when
buying battleships, those Generals are
now serving prison terms, but the af
fair made the military party unpopu
lar in Japan. Moreover, war always
stifles liberal opinions and liberal
movements. But there were new
army and navy implements to be
tried. So, live or six thousand sol
diers from every part of Japan were
sent out to test the perfection of the
military machine. There is no in
thusiasm among the people save those
who are making fortunes out of it."
"There is no chance of Japan's
sending more men to the front. It
is to far away. There are not even
enough railroads to send tlie required
munitions and food to the Russian
army. A fifteen days’ journey is too
far to send troops when food for
them must be sent. However, Japan
is shipping munitions to Russia in
large quantities.
"All of the belter class Japanese
studied in Germany; everything gov
ernmental is German. The newspap
ers often comment admiringly on Ger
man successes. But Japan is being
faithful to the Allies. Tho Govern
ment is very I’ro-AIly. It has been
policoinian over the far East for Eng
land. it is the judgement of the best
Japanese magazines that Japan kept
India from revolt and drove the Ger
man ships from the Pacific Ocean.
"Do you thing there is a possibility
of a Japanese-American war?”
"Of course, after the present war
the immigration question will spring
up again, but Japan will never tight
on that score. Japan protits more
Ulan does America in Japanese-Ame
eriean trade. I am afraid of strained
relations between the two countries on
account of the marked change in
Japan’s foreign policy. It is said that
Japan wants tof establish the Monroe
Doctrine in Asia. Two years ago
Baron Shibusawa came to this coun
try and expressed certain Japanese
grievances. Before then, Japan had
always bee n weak in diplomatic utter
ances. Now it is strong and more
outspoken. Just as a man in the
street is weak when he has no money
in his pocket, so is a nation. But
when the man or the nation grow
rich, strength comes. Jt is so in Ja
pan."
"The Chinese problem has become
the renter. Japan has therein a
means of retaliation for the immigra
tion question. America is more anx
ious about the Chinese problem than
about immigration. The United
States is afraid that Japan will shut
off its trade to China. Before the
war, Germany had influence for trade
in China, England and France, have
large interests there. China cannot
give America concessions, nor can it
step into the circle of English or
French influence. Therefore America
coined the ‘open door.’ Japan has
special influence in China. Before
Japanese control of Southern Man
churia, America sent cotton goods
there. Since Japan has had control,
there has been no American trade in
Manchuria.
“We socialists had no chance to
keep peace. We were not allowed to
get into communication with our bro
thers ip the bclligerant countries.
Tills pro-ally and pro-German busi
ness stops free discussion. War pol
icies snuff out every liberal move.
We couldn’t organize an anti-war
party; -wfe weren’t allowed to hold
meetings. The German Social Demo
crats are supported by petty f^eryh
ants and the mid* .e class; they want
to keep the party iiwi for the period
after the war. Wars will not stop
until the workingmen in the belliger
ent countries want it to stop. There
must be an international working
mans effort that will make itself felt.
"I have been- In this country since
just before the war, during the San
Francisco Exposition. My family is
in Japan. I intended to start to
Europe via the Siberian Raiiroad, but
I came to this country instead. I
can’t do any work for socialism in
Japan, but X want to do same work
for the Japanese workingman from
here. In Japan my home was guard
ed in the front by one policeman, in
the back by another. They were al
ways watching me. If I went to see
a friend a policeman would go and put
many questions to him about what
business I had with him and what re
lations I had with him. I had a hard
time getting away from Japan, but I
am connected with an economic paper
there, and I was allowed to leave in
the guise of a journalist
“During the Husso-Japanese war I
went to Amsterdam and shook hands
with a Husslan representative at the
International Congress. This was re
ported all over the world. Now the
Japanese Government has Issued a
proclamation stating that I must, not
he allowed to attend the Stockholm
Conference. The Japanese Socialists
want me to go. Socialism is young
and suppressed in Japan, hut it will
grow. I am not allowed to return
to .Japan while the present bureau
cratic Government is in power.”
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOIt
PATENT. NO. 0332.
In the United states Laud Office at
Nome, Alaska. March 1. 1918.
NOTICE IS HffKEHY GIVEN,
that Marie Neibling, a citizen of
the United States, over the age
of twenty-one years, whose post
office address is Nome, Alaska, has
made application before the United
States Land Office at Nome, Alaska,
for a Patent for the Sener Placer
Claim, situated on the right limit (
of Dry Creek in the Cape Nome
Recording District, Alaska. Mineral
Surrey No. 1199, said claim being
more particularly described in the 1
field notes and plat of the official
survey thereof now on file in said
Land Office at Nome, Alaska, to-wit.
Beginning at Cor. No. 1, identical
with Cor. No. 2, Sur. No. 328,
Beatrice Bench. U. S. L. M. No. 11
bears S. 49 deg. 46 min. W .4650.00
ft. Witness Cor., a fir post 4 ft:
long, 4 ins. sq. set 2 ft. in ground,
with earth mound 24 ins. base, 16
ins. high around same, scribed W.
C. 1-1199 S B, 2-328 B B, bears
N. 18 deg. 54 min. W. 31.70 ft.;
thence N. 18 deg. 54 min. W. 361.70
ft. to Cor. No. 2, thence 3. 55 deg.
26 min W. 65 ft. to Cor. No. 3;
thence N. 29 deg. 12 min. W. 765.60
ft to Cor. No. 4; thenceN. 53 deg.
50 min. E. 630.60. ft. to Cor. No.'B;
thence 3. 25 deg. 57 min. E. 1377.00
ft. thencj S. 79 teg. 14 min. W.
577.90 ft. to beginning, containing
an area of 16.569 acres. The varia- •
tion herein is from 19 deg. 15 min.
to 19 deg- 30 mia. «.
Said clarm ts .situated on unsur
veyed ground on right litnlt of Dry
creek in Cape Nome Recording Dis
trict, Alaska.
Mineral Monument No. 11 to
which this claim is tied is a fir post
6 ins! sq. 5 ft. above ground with
stone mound around same 6 ft. base
3 ft. high scribed U. S. L. M. No. 11, 1
about 2.5 miles N. N. E. of Nome,
Alaska, and in Latitude 64 deg. 32
min. N., Longitude 165 deg. 22 min.
W.
The Notice of Location is recorded
in Vol. 86 Page 37, records of the ]
Cape Nome Recording Precinct, j
Alaska.
The adjouring claims on the East !
is No. 2 above Dry creek, Sur. No. j
464; on the West the Beatrice claim j
Sur. No. 328 and also unsurveyed j
property and on North and South j
is unsurveyed ground.
There are no conflicting claims. j
THOS. McGANN,
Register. i
Date of first pub. March 6, 1918. |
Date of last pub. May 6, 1918. j
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