Politicians became involved in this campaign, because the campaign coincided with the Meiji Government's purpose of establishing a theater suitable for the upper & middle classes of a civilized country to watch.
これは明治政府の文明国の上流、中流階級が観劇するにふさわしい演劇の成立を目指す目論見ともかさなり、政治家を巻き込んだ運動となった。