Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1901 — Public Spirit in Japan. [ARTICLE]

Public Spirit in Japan.

The modern, Japan which the Marquis Ito’s policy has brought forth was made possible by the religious devotion of nobles and coolies to the emperor, which made the imperial wishes law; by the Intense patriotism and the official integrity of the retainers of the Dlamyos, who have become the officers of the army and navy and members of the civil service, writes Frederick Palmer in Scribner’s. As an Occidental, I should place integrity as the first cause. When you have official servants so proud that even the postman will not accept a-Christmas gift, a statesman knows that, whatever the errors of construction may be, the timbers are sound. As long as men become policemen on less than a coolie’s pay for the honor of serving the government it will never lack for first-class ability to fill its offices. Japan may

well reverence her old military aristocracy, with its false punctilios.