MARQUIS ITO.
To the Marquis Ito more than any other man or group of men belongs the credit of opening the refined and progressive mind of the Japanese people to the influences of Occidental civilisation. 'When most of the statesmen now so conspicuous aie foigotten or remembered faintly as instances of the survival of the barbaric Ignorance and prejudice into the twentieth century the Marquis Ito will tic lauded as oiie of those rare world-minds lofty enough to see real patriotism and real progress and to use place and power for 'noble ends onlv. The Marquis Ito is called “ the elder brother of the Mikado " But he is truly one of the guiding, inspiring cider brothers of the human race s
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 284, 10 December 1901, Page 1
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