Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1883 — Japanese Progress. [ARTICLE]

Japanese Progress.

Aresident of Japan, in a recent letter, says that the country is not making so much progress as is generally supposed. The change is mostly on the surface. There are professions of regard for the people qf other nations, but the late Satsuma rebellion was a formidable outbreak of the anti-for-eign sentiment. The ediftts against Christianity have never been abolished. The ♦ e'ople really have a contempt for foreigners, and the Government is fast discharging those of that > class in its employ, and the number at present is very small. jSome of the leaders of public opinion believe that, with a few iron-clads Wild torpedo-boats for a navy, Japan will take its place among tile great nations of the earth, find be practically independent of Western civilization. r.