THE JAPANESE JINGOES.
The present Government of Japan is inspired by the eminently sane view that the best policy for that country is to cultivate friendship with all the world, make no military expenditures in excess of those natural and proper for a country of its population and rescources, and to reduce the taxation which is grinding its impoverished people. Upon that basis, with the policy of confining its propaganda of colonisation to Asia, and with due respect to the treaty rights of others, there is no reason why Japan should not prosper, and its people grow rich for the next century. These policies are inspired by a spirit of true patriotism and ought to have the support of every subject of the Mikado. Unfortunately, there is an opposition which is the reverse of patriotic, in that it is willing to seek office by pandering to the jingo spirit with which, under the excitement of the successful war with Russia, a great part of the Japanese people were infected.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3017, 13 October 1908, Page 4
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169THE JAPANESE JINGOES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 3017, 13 October 1908, Page 4
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