A SWEEPING DENUNCIATION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 216, 19 September 1901, Page 2

A SWEEPING DENUNCIATION.

European criticisms of Japinese public and private morali y brought: forth in the Japanese review, the Toyo, this bitter denunciation of the West:— " Think of the moral Occident, that wonderfully straigbtlaced Occident that connives at Armenian and Macedonian massacres; spends millions in crushing and stamping out two sturdy little republics. fighting for bare independence; stabs, shoot?, and assassinates its monarchs; gives over the street? of its greatest cities, after nightfall, to the unquestioned rule of the <kmi monde ; is forever trying to buUy «eiker nations into ceding portions of their territory, and, in broad terms, goes about with a Bible in one hand and a gauntlet on the other, , . We do not stab our monarchs in the female line, nor do we act bo as to compel our great emptror to live in"a steel-lined study or travel in a bomb-proof train. We acknowledge the imputation that we are not Caucasians. Yet there is no quarter of our largest cities that is not an safe at night as it is in the day-time. Our restaurants are not flooded with biwr?s after dusk, nor are even our cheapest theatres houses of assignation. We do not go into boasting ecstasies after a victory over a weaker fo*, nor do we make idols of our admirals and generals one day to revile them the next. We do not lynoh even the vilest offenders, nor have we—we confess it to our shame—ever once burned a murderer at the s f ake. We admit that we are, on the whole, a Buddhistic nation. Yet we have neyer undertaken a propaganda of this creed with cannon ; nor have we ever had an Inquisition wherein to teach tbe gospel of peace and love by means of thumbscrew?, the rack, and the wheel. We do not permit our soldiers to rape defenceless women, kill infants, or loot the habitations of powerless non-com-batants."