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close of business April 6, 19116.
RKSOURCKS.
Loans and discounts $14,887.49
Overdrafts 1,809.20
Furniture and fixtures 3,406.50
Due from banks and baukers 9,635.63
Cash itoms 2,868.15
*41,606.97
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Surplus fund 3,750.00
Undivided profits 106.41
Time deposits 1,550.00
Deposits subject to check at, 410.61
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' Jack Tars' Reasons For so Many
II Desertions From Warships.
EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENTS
Declare They Gat Poor Food, Misfit
4 Uniforms and Not Enough Shore
I Leave—Demands Exacted in Past
Two Vsara Have Bsen Unusually
j Severe on the Jaeklea.
I Statistics show that desertions from
' battleships in the laft few years have
been occurring at a surprising rate. In
almost svery port warships touch blue
I Jackets are unlawfully quitting the
aarvlce. Within the last two years the
crews ot at least two American war
; ships have been reporti-d In a mutin
ous state. Bluejackets who do not de
aert or mutiny grumble openly when
ever they get a chance on land to air
their grievances Dissatisfied sailors
appear to be in the rule Instead ot the
1 exception, says the New tt>rk Tribune.
To quote one bluejacket: "In the
American navy there are good slilpa
ami nad ships. The former are known
In the navy as 'homes' and the lattor
as 'madhouses.' The terms, 1 think,
explain themselves. I myself, I am
glmi to say, am serving on a 'home,'
win re the officers are kind, the 'grub'
good, and we get more shore leave
than on the other ships."
"Grub" Is undoubtedly the partlcu-
Isr subject about which th« sailors are
most bitter. The revolting plcturs*
they paint as to the grade of food served
aboard would at Erst blush seem to be
drswn ireely from the imagination, but
a sroie of sailors of different ships,
separately Interviewed, told the earns
story, and among these wan a cook's
assbUut of s first class battleship.
Next to the question of "grnb," there
would seem to be no grievance which
Is causing more general discontent
throughout the navy than the matter
of uniforms. The men Interviewed
were bitter over the present system of
distributing uniforms to the enlisted
men. They complain that they are
compelled to wear uniforms that do not
at them, under the present system; and
here toe paymaster Is the officer who la
blanitd.
They are compelled, they allege, to
pay for tailoring alterations out of
their own smsll wages (from sl3 to SBO
a month), and, to "rub It In," they are
oftentimes punished by their captains
for untidiness, and no excuses are lis
tened to.
"1 he uniforms, too, are qiade of poor
material. We wear the suits as well as
we can. Then comes the captain along
snd orders sn Inspection. 'That uni
form doesn't fit you,' nays he. '"Have It
altered, or I'll punish you severely.'
Th.it means spending half your month's
pay. perhaps, to have the uniform
practically made over again. Then,
when the uniforms sre washed they
shrhik. because of the poor quality of
the stuff of which they are made. That
means buying a new uniform, and It
so: s us $7 a suit
"The sailors complain that while the
navy blue book declares that for cer
tain offenses men shall be -punished
either by confinement in a brig In
double Irons, by denial of shore leave
or br fining, captains often sentence of
fenders lo all three of these punish
ments.
"Thera Isn't a navy la the world | -
where the sailors are punished (or
small offenses the way they are In the
A nit rlean navy. I have mixed with
sailers of all nations, and I know what
l'in miking about. The average Amer
ican sailor Is more Intelligent than tha
tn''ora of other nations. We can see
ti.e Injustice of the thing more readily
than foreign sailors can. and yet we
are puntahed more severely of all.
When you punlsi* an American sailor
uuji'slly or with too great severity,
you make a surly brute of him Instead
of man."
Th-it sailors do not get enough shore
leave Is another assertion strongly ad
vam d by Jack and given as a cause
for so many desertions. The sailors
cetlare that the men a'e deprived of
the right to go ashore without any ap
pu.cn t cause or reason. O.'.e sailor de
claim! that during a crul/e of Ave
mouths, In which bis shi.» had touched
fv.t twice, not a man ab-mrd had been
allowed to go ashore lor more than
two (lays In all that Mm)
That "grog" la denied while afloat is
another grievance agalnat the service
cited by Jack. He com >i\lna bitterly
that 'u other nkrlee the men are al
lowed a bottle of beer each day. and
that as a consequence thay do not get
so drunk when they go aahore. He de
clares that many temperate sailors
would be more satisfied with the serv
ice If they could have a little liquor
each day, as used to be the case in the
navy before "grog" waa abolished.
A severe arraignment of their Junior
officers is made by the sailors of many
ships. According to the statement of
lb use bluejackets, snobbery la ram
pant among these officers, and there la
more class hatred aboard a battleship
than aahore. , The men describe the
Junior officers as being in many caaea
bullying, overbearing and haughty and
evincing 111 concealed hatred for tha
en lUted men, and declare that in no
navy In the world la there auch lack of
ay t. 1.1 thy between" officers and men as
ii> many warships of the United Btatea
nav*.
Shirt Pointed Out Dead Body.
Verifying an old auperatttlon, mem
era of a searching party In quest of tha
body of a drowned boy threw upon
the waters of the lake the ahlrt of tha
missing lad, and found the article af
fective, where grappling irons failed.
The ahlrt aank (mediately, and In laaa
than an hoar the body rose to the *ur
face, within two feet of the place
where tha garment had {one down.
ffijc (Enterprise.
WILLIAMSTON, N. p., FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1906
BALTIMORE OF THC FUTURL j
Fireproof Structure*. Widened Street*
and Growing Co.nmeroe.
The krou lav ifiiJ by ll*:nes consisted
of 8V tit}' olotks, or more Uutu iM
acrus, bounded by ljbwiy. Uaiuuiure,
layette, I.exibjlon ami Wuj streets, I
Junes' Kullh to (be »nui 1 Fvml Cull
l'ratt anil Lombaid strc.is. In ihjsaec-
Uou wore 1,3*3 building., ai.il wub the '
exception uf about .>u ol tueui, every
oue was laid low either b> u.tmi'o ur
by city officials In fighting Hie ftre, xnJ
the section, whiih bcioie the li 1 e bad
been the lined iu the business district,
waa left practically a territory ul uu- '
improved laud, soys tbe New Vurk j
Herald.
Immediately after the Are Baltimore
began planning improvements. Kvftj :
street In the bumud district waa nar
row and unable to accommodate the (
oity's rapidly Increasing trade, aud lh« (
main thing planned wua the widen ag
of theae streets. Baltimore'street, tao •
moat Important tlroioughtare and the
dividing line of the north and sc.ith
streets, waa not widened, though ag.U;
tlou of It held up improvement* on the
thoroughfare for more than thre I
months and It waa sevmal times be.ore
the city council. Buaine: a men who al
that time opposed the widening and
won their light have In many instanced
admitted they were at fault, but iotj.
late, in addition to wideuing eiac.'ts, •
the city made provision for u
plaza on the west front of tbe court
house, a building which cost nearly j
(4,000,000, and is considered oue ol th j
very finest of lta Kind in the world.!
The city has also planned to take pos- j
•eaalon of all the property aoutii ol
Pratt street and extending to the waief
frv ut. It will build new docks and will
lease apace ou them to Individuals and
corporations, a system Bliuiiar to that
In vogue in New York city.
With the property couduinued for th«
improvements named, there were aotu-!
ally 968 lots upon which the babtlita- j
tlou of the burued district depen.ted,
and on those permits for 446 structured
have been issued or applied fot. Hut
as these 440 permits In many case* rep-,
resent two or more lota, about 7it/ of
the .458 have been covered or will soon
be Improved with new uuiidings.
Tbe tax assessments ou all the build'
lugs which occupied all the 968 lots lu'
the burned district before the lire
amounted to f 10,84U,976, which Is $4,-'
09.1,145 lesa than the declared coat of j
the new ouee erected or now in course
of construction.
All of the buildings are as thorough'
ly fireproof as man can make them. It
Is doubtful if any city lu the country,
has as many fireproof buildings at ibis
time as UalUmore. lu the construction
only Improved methods were used, and
there are quite a number of bulldlugtf
ulout Uu city now thai have not a
particle of wood In tliem. Practically
all of the new buildings have metal
window frames, with metal saaheu fit
ted with wire glass ou the most ex
posed parts.
A large number of the new bulldlugf
are of concrete construction, lu (act,
there are now more concrete buildings
In Baltimore than lu any othur city In
the country, Bulidtis say that this
has betu found to be oue of the best
methods of construction, being solid at
well as fireproof. Probably the Uigcst
building constructed of concrete lu Uai
time is the new home of the Baltimore
News. This building occupies a large
lot on the southeast corner of Fayette
and Calvert Btreets, and has just been
completed. Une warehouse is new Tie
lug orected which is entirely of con
crete, the ouside walls being dressed in
a manner closely resembling limestone.
In rebuilding the cily the ge.iernl
tendency has beeu to erect buildings oi
medium height rather than akysriap
ers.
Despite the fact that the fire demon
strated that wooden pavements will
burn, lialtimore has paved some of her
streets with wooden blocks since ths
Ore. The wooden blocks have be o
used principally on the streets in th«
vicinity of the court house, It having
been found that they dcudeitMhe sound
of passing cars and wagons, which be
fore the Are was a source of great an
noyance. Most of the streets In the
burned district have been paved will)
Belgian blocks, however.
Durability of Tantalum.
Although the existence of tantalum,
the new material employed lor incan
descent lamp filaments, has been
known for a hundred years. It Is only
very recently that the metal has been
prepared In a pure state. This Is ef
fected with the aid of the electric fur l
nace.
Tantalum combines extreme ductility
with extraordinary hardness. WJien
red hot It Is easily rolled into sheets or
drawn Into wire, but upon being heated
a second time and than hammered it
becomes so hard that It has been found
Impossible, with a diamond drill, to
bore a hole through a sheet only ons
millimeter thick. Such a drill, work
ing day and for three days, at
6,000 revolutions per minute, made a
dspreslson only a quarter of a milli
meter deep, and the diamond point waa
badly worn. —Youth's Companion. ,
Found A Curt Fir Dfsptasla
Mrs. S. Lindsay, of Fort Wil
liam, Ontario, Canada, who has
sufiered quit; a nutulier of years
from dyspepsia, and great pains in
the stomach, was advised by her
druggist to take Chamlierlaiu's
Stomach and Liver Tablets. She
did so and says, "I find they have
done me a great deal of good. I
have never had any sulk-ring since
I began
led with dyspepsia or indigestion,
why not take these Tablets, get
well and stay well? For sale by
S. R. Biggs.
I MP If
Natives Dying Out and Portu
guese Crowded Out
OUTNUMBERJHE WHITLS
Possibility ef Japanese Political Con
trot—lndustrial Situation Passing
Into t)Mlr Hand*—Have Greatly
Kcduoed the Scale of Wages. Con
sequently Find Ready Employment
For ysarti the large Immigration of
Japan*** toliawall has been a (Seine
of appreh—lon tt> the citizens ul me
territory who ease more for lb. su
premacy of Auisficam principiut, aud
American Idsail than for the prutper
it) of a few sugar planters, aud die
time Is fast approaching when a seri
ous crisis will haws to be laced, says
Ukc A«* Vork Turns.
Ou« tiling is teruuu, however: For
aii pi acUcal purposes the territory of
Hawaii la a Japanese letrilor). Any
Visitor to the Isiahda will soou become
cuuwitved ul Ute uutii ot uiis asser
tion. The lllUe brown meu of "Dai
Isij'jou ' number 10,000 souls, scattered
uiii,.ighout the entire territory, with
tep> in every luuniei aud
Vli...i;e of the group. 1 heir apiK-araiue
in any lowu, as a geueral rule, has
hicu loliwwed within a short period by
Uit departure to other sUoree of the
Aiiiei'tvanx, whose iabor was undersold
snu auUi,iMU ol living uuderuiiued by
the u«* comers. •
11l lu 4 comparatively abort lima,
the manual aud skilled labor of the isi
auud itte iu the haaida ot Hawaiian*.
I'm n* ■' •! Ainei leans. Aa sieve
dot ex. asiinuien, laro-growers and
hat» drtvefs. the natives of the soil
were earning the wherewithal nccos
sa;> lor a good and substantial living.
Tuuay ihu llawaliiana are pruuiiuiait
aloutj the w liaivcs. In the fishing boats.
U|>i . Ihe taro fields or the driver's seat
oniy by their absence. The little brown
uiL-i. nave taken their places every
wluie at a much lower wage.
"iwetKy yeais ago several thousand
l'ortugueso were brought over from
Mau ira and the Cipe Verde islands to
won. upon the sugar pianlatlous under
contract. A hard working, frugal, lu
diiMi iiiits people, Lhey promptly set to
win a a ad. while transforming the ap
peal auca and increaaiug the production
ul the plantations by the faithful aud
con.., ledtiuUn performance of their du
ties, tint provided little by little the
'wc...is tin ... at) to purrhasi' homes for
thiU'Selves and their families, thoy
rair.' d large families and presented to
their adopted country a generation of
young men and women Imbued with
Aim l ican sentiments. American princi
ples and American aspirations.
'I his generation. In presence of the
appalling death rate of the llawallana
ami the rapid increase of Japanese, waa
the hope of the territory. These young
Portuguese—or rather Americans —
bowevir, educated iu the public schools
of the territory, were no longer useful
for the sugar planters. They knew too
much. I hey bad the temerity to Insist
that $::•> per luohth for their labor in
the cant fields, under a burning t roplcal
sun, was necessary to properly aup|M>rt
ami educate their families. The plan
tation manager's, naturally enough,
would bear none of this, for hundreds
of Japanese were at their disposition at
the nun utlli rut wage of fl4 a month,
boa i I not Included.
The Portuguese l«*ft the plantations,
drilled to the tuwnK and cities nf the
territory and engaged lu buslneiis for
IhfttiW'l v«i. 'I hey HHin deinonsirated
their sterling qualities and became an
Important factor In the development
ami prosperity of Hawaii.
Since an luxation a large numlier of
Americans IIHVO- gone to Hawaii, look
ing for opportunities to better thcin
:«•!*(•« ami HI the name time ald their
contribution to Ihe development to the
territory along "traditional American
line* " Where am these Ami'rlrana
today? Nut in Hawaii —that'* certain.
Llkr (be Hawaiian* and the Portu
guese, they have been compelled to re
tile before tne onslaught of the Japa
nese. and have left the latter in full
possession of one of the fairest lands
.jOder the canopy of heaven.
Jiry goods stores, carpenters' shops,
barber;' - shops, restaurants are In the
ha. ds of the Japanese. They come to
fiaWßii nominally to work on the su
;nr plantations, but their restlessness
mil unbounded ambition propel thecn
within it sliort time toward 11110, Hon
olulu or Ban Francisco. They are ths
i.tH; drivers, bricklayers, masons, car
penters, plumbers, electricians, restau
,at ire. etc., of the two former cities.
The. build the houses that should be
miit by American workingmen, they
ie-form the domestic 'labor which
alunild l>e msnned liy American serv
ir.te tiiey man Ihe island vessels which
tbosld tie manned by American sea
lien, and. Ilnatly, they are building a
•Iviil/iii inn In an American territory
«hii h. it something Is not done toj
heck it. wlil supersede and ultimately
take toe place Of the existing American
-Kill/ .lion.
In t->l*7 there were 24.407 Japanese In
the Hawaiian Inlands. In three years—■
thai In. by 1900- -they had increased to
•I,IIS. white the Chinese nuultered 25.-
;2 and the Hawailans of all shades
Hid iors, 54.141. Today there are. In
I'uunil n umbers. In the territory of Ha
waii 70.000 Japanese, 28.K>n Chinese
anil 3H.000 Hawaliana. To iu .old Amer
ica i? el vilizatjpn and Ideals in the pres
ence of these 100,000 Asiatics there are
12,743 white people, Including English,
German, French and all other Kuro
puiis.
France has 3,045 miles of canals and
4.C5 of riven improved for purposes of I
navigation. The government has ex
pended about 1600.000,000 on thea* wat-j
erways
REVIVAL OF THE HORSE.
For Years the Trolley and Automobile
Lessened the Demand.
Fifteen years ago the bottom very
suddenly dropped out of the business.
The street car system In the cltloa
changed with slight warning front
horse power to cable and electricity,
and not only threw upon the market
thousands of horses that had been in
UM> upon street car lines, but deprived
of xalue mauy thousands of other
three, tour snd live -year-olds that were
upon the breeding farms In readiness
tor the succeeding years' demand.
Most of these animals were sacrl.
i*d. in Philadelphia. New York and
Chicago (hay were sold at about $lO or
sl2. their actual value for rendering
purposes. Following this came the
panic, aud In addition to the disappear
ance of the market for horses for gen
eral purposes there was no longer any
demand for carriage or saddle horses,
which are alwaya the first to bs cut off
in the days of adversity.
Hundreds of breeders wsnt out ot
busineaa, but the pluckier ones sent
agents to Europe to see If a market
j could not be secured. They found the
I Kuropcan tramways still using horses,
and iu a short time American animals
were supplanting the scrawny stock In
I U.M abroad. Later mauy horses were
I disposed of to European armies, and
I when still later came a few wars the
business was attain upon Its feet.
I liousands of animals were Bent to
Cuba soon alter the American* occupa
tion. There la mill a good demand
there fur the lighter animate, which ara
used for gardening, truck raising and
kiii;ill farming. The south also waa lu
duied by the low price of horses and
the high price of mules some years ago
to liuy many of the lightweights for
use In the cotton fleld.
The Hoar war created a demand for
nearly a hundred thousand animals.
Eighty thousand were shipped In ons
year by the English, and the western
bronco became a familiar sight as an
English cavalry horse.
Business men no longer buy the
street era for their own use. A streeter
Is a noise that once waa popular for
llglit wagons, cars and general use.
These have been supplanted In most of
the cities by the sleek, heavy draft
horses, products of the brewing of Im
ported stallions and native mares.
Not the least Interesting feature of
the horse business is the annual visit of
buyers to France and Belgium, where
pure bred stallions, raised by experts
under government supervision, are
yearly purchased by thousands. These
are later resold to western farmers and
breeders, who thing nothing of paying
from SI,OOO to s4.t>oo for a pure breed.
Kroui seven to eight thousand coach
and draft horses are yearly Imported
from Europe. These anlmala aro
brought over In bunches of from 25 to
150, and they are all being absorbed by
the breeders. As many as 1,500 horses
a day arc disposed of at the larger
marketing points In this country.
Dealers declare. It, to lie a fact that
the price of liorsea b.a» Increased In the
past live years at the rate of flO a
year. While the standard car horso
price In New York, before cables and
trolleys came In, was from sllO U>)l2s,
horses or the same grade now sell at
from >l5O lo >2OO, and are scarce at the
new figure
The outlaw horse, the bucking bron
co, is becoming scarcer each year. Ten
years MHO such horses were aa plentiful
as jiu k labium. buL they will soon join
tlie buffaloes In retirement.
The outlaw comes from the poorest
IIIIMHI on the range. He Is said by cow
boys to be a horse degenerate, a crim
inal by nature, just as men go wrong
who have poor blood in their veins.
His parents are In nearly every case
mustangs, and the stock Is the same as
the wild horse of early plain days.
Cowlioys say that nearly every horse
will buck if turned loose In a pasture
for several months, but he will soon
quiet down. The outlaw will buck no
matter how long or how often he haa
been successfully ridden. Kamous
hut-kern are rare now. The bettering
of the blood sounded the death knell of
the outlaw.—New York Sun.
Jist What Everyone Shoild do
Mr. J. T. Barber, of Irwiuville,
Ga., always keeps a bottle of Cliam
lierlain's Colic, Cholera anil Diar
rhoea Remedy at hand for instant
use. Attacks of colic, cholera mor
bus and diarrhoea come on so sud
denly that there is no time to hunt
a doctor or no to the store for med
icine. Mr. Karlier says: "I have
tried Chamberlain's Coltc, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy which is
one of Ihe best medicines I ever
saw. I keep a luttle of it in mv
rooili ar. I have had several at
tacks of colic and it has' prpved to
IK.- the liest medicine I ever used."
Sold by R. Bi^n s
The commissioners certainly trod
on the packers' |>et corned lieef.
When the baby talks it is time
to give Hollister's R«x - ky Mount
ain Tea. It's the gieatest baby
medicine known to hiving mothers.
It makes them eat sleep and grow.
35 cents. Tea or Tablets. S. R.
Biggs, Williainston, and Nelson &
Hargrove, Robersonville.
Miin wants but little potted meat
here below, but wants that Jlittle
e'ean.
Kat one of Ring's Dysuepsia
Tablets after each meal aua vou
will not suffer with indigestion.
Sold by S. R. Biggs.
HI MS SIB
Baron KanekoSays Their Cou
ntry Was Underrated.
LOYALTY TO EMPEROR
Working for a New Typ* of Civilisa
tion—All Llnaa of Important Work
in Japan Are Given to Exparta.
Thia Reeulting in Thoroughneaa—
Study Foreign Politica.
In speaking ol the fundamental prin
ciples of Japanese euccetsa, Baron ICa
neuo said he believed tlieao two were
the chief reasons for the little isl
aud coming Into history aa one of the
great world powers:
The ignorance of Japan, self-oon
feßb«u by other nations.
Advantage ul having a constitutional
government.
"We hear that Europe has been de
ceived by the Japanese victory," con
tinued the Uaron. "Deceived Is hardly
the word to uae. If Europe has been
deceived, she has herself to blame, la
appearance the Japanese might be
called deceptive. We are uelthur hand
some nor lirave looking. There is noth
ing commendable about the Japanese
appearance. They are aiuall and lnsig
nuicant looking, compared with the
hue physiques of the peoples of many
Uuiopean countries. The Japanese
woie underestimated and misunder
stood. Other races and nations never
, took the trouble to study us, whereas
we studied them to the minutest de
tail. Every bit of important work to
do has boeu given to an expert in his
line of work, a man who has spent aev
erul years In many nations, learning
thoroughly every detail of the work as
signed to him by the government
Thoroughness is the keynote ot Japa
nese success. Often when traveling la
other countries 1 have made special In
quiries regarding certain lines of busi
ness. 1 found that the man who was
.spoken of as an expert In his line knew
his work thoroughly as It obtained In
his own country. The same line of
business as carried on iu a foreign
country he knew little or nothing of.
"The patriotism of our people is not
of a day. It Is Inbred and has been
cultivated for more than 2,000 ceutu
rles. No other nation can show a rul
er's desceut like our present emperor,
for 2,500 years. We reverence him and
pay our highest respects to him. We
are the most democratic of nations.
The poor and the rich boys attend the
same schools. The men who make our
laws are men who know the wants, the
needs and desires of our people. Ttiera
is a close bond of sympathy and under
standing between the ruler and the
ruled. To be able to govern, the law
makers must know the people they
govern.
"The Japanese have been put down
as Imitators. This might bo mentioned
as one stage of our progress. In study
ing a foreign civilization, the flrst step
Is Imitation, then adaptation, then or
ganization. Our Japanese experts have
mailt! a thorough raseai-ch and study of
every detail of their business as car
ried on In almost every country of the
world, buch Instances of clever orlgln
lzatlon are shown In the remarkable
success of smokeless power Invented by
Major Hhlmose. This powder Is, by
actual test, Ave times as strong as the
Uuropean powder. When a shell tilled
with the English lyddite is fired It will
break Into ten or fifteen plectw, where
as the same shen tilled with the Hhl
mose smokeless powder, when explod
ed bursts Into 2.00U or 3,000 pieces. It
Is now considered the most powerful
smokeless powder ever Invented, and
Its Inventor Is a major in the Japanese
army. Again, In the realm of science
we have already reached a stage of or
igination by Prof. Kltnsato's discov
ery of a new bacteria. He discovered
It In Germany, and was decorated by
the (ierman government; and Dr. J.
Takamine, who is now living In New
York, discovered adhenalln, a medicine
which Is used to stop bleeding, particu
larly by oculists In operations on the
eye, and which has been used with
marked Buccess during the liusso-Jnp
anese war. Next comes Baron Ito,
whose untiring investigation In botany
made his name recognized by both
American and European scientists.
"In the orlglnlzatlon of our army we
copied the German system, and In our
navy the English and American. In
our rode of laws we imitated La Code
Napoleon, and afterward the German
principle and method. Our first paper
money was made in New York, aud if
you will take up those old Japanese
greenbacks you will And them exactly
the same as yours, except In the writ
ing. If you examine the constitution of
Japau from the flrst article to the last
you will find It quite different from
those of American or European coun
tries, yet Its frame and foundation are
In accordance with the principles of the
western constitutions. Therciore, I
might say that the constitution of Ja
pan Is a living monument of the orig
inization of Japanese statesmanship.
"I am often asked, what are tne aims
and aspirations of the Japanese people.
To this I would say that our national
ambition la, by engrafting the western
culture and science upon our own insti
tutions, (o blend together and assimi
late the two types of civilization —Ori-
ental and Occidental—and by doing so
to bring forth a new type of civiliza
tion, In which the culture and science
of the two hemispheres will meet, not
in conflict, but In harmony, so as to
enable us to share the Inheritance of
Christian religion, Oriental philosophy,
Greek art, Roman law and modern sci
ence. Thus 'we hope in the course of
the twentieth century to have at least
one fruit of our earnest and persever
ing efforts to contribute to the progreat
of mankind." —Brooklyn Eagle.
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