Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — How Japan Deals With Bribery. [ARTICLE]

How Japan Deals With Bribery.

TlVw sr— Violators of the election laws of l Japan are promptly punished. Five citizens of prominence in Osaka wer«' arrested on various charges of influencing voters at the last general election. The Osaka court of first in-t stance fined the debauchers of the: franchise 100 yen each. From this sentence they appealed and the high court quashed the judgment of the lower tribunal, but sent each of the five prisoners to jail for two months. —East and West News. plausible tongue is operated by a deceptive brain.