Repository: UIHistories Project: Sophograph - 1891 [PAGE 54]

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matters being overshadowed by the greal questions of revenue. Shall we consider the resuli of the election as a final expression of the people upon the tariff question? We think not. The partv spirit is stronger than the bebests of reason among a large class of citizens. So long as this is the case, no matter can be onsidered as settled by a presidential election. The people must be educated, taught the nature and value of their suffrage, and led to a just appreciation of the fundamental principles oi a republican form of government.

Then will the popular voice have a value and t h i n g s be w h a t they seem.

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Bisting of three hundred men elected h

people, and a HoUBe of |V<i Ome of '•'• h •

members hold their seat* by inheritance, whil< others are elected. The kfikado i bill th<

head. All I'm' nmn of tic of t

higher

years, and paying an annual t of lil lars, are cutiiled to franchise. This is a wonderful si ride toward a high* civilization in the East, and. v. beli< e, 1 1 beginning of a course which will, ultim revolutionize the whole Mongolian i '\ • Japanese are a remarkably wide-awaki an< progressive nation, and ii gii gi pi- • -ure to record this evidence of their g d sen* We shall watch their progress under the i system with interesi ami hearty sympathy. has received its usual attention from the athletic students this y« ii-. An entertainment was given at the Armory opei house which nett.-d the boys a hundred and forty dollars. Much interesi ha- b n ar< and maintained and the outlook for th sprin terra sports is good. All these I hi] roj erly subordinated, are to he commended, not only as pleasing diversions from the h \ iGYMNASTICS duties of school work, hut also as n >f

seems to he a popular belief that the editor of the S o p h o g r a p n , whoever he may be, is. for the time-being in direct c o m m u n i c a tion with t h e spirits, and. therefore, that he is in a position to know just when t h e magazine will make its appearance. For t h e i n f o r m a tion of such as are so deluded, we would

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briefly say. such is not the case. We are extremely grateful to you, kind reader, for the interest you show in the affairs of the Sophograph; we have endeavored to answer eacn of

you with a smile (sometimes thin and sickly )

discipline.

Bui it should he remembered, th.

when you asked, "How's the Sophograph?" and "Wken'fl it coming out?'* hut, beyond that

smile, we have, in t h e majority of Cases, been

while muscle is desirable and to a certain extent indispensable, it cannot supply t h e pla< of b r a i n : nrsi train the mind, then the musel

unable to enlighten you. At last it is out. S^xt year another editor will mount the sacrificial altar, and it is for his benefit thai this paragraph is written.

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is done.

It

might

have

done better. We have learned thorough!; some things in the preparation of this m zine and will tell you jusi one of them. I haps you know it already, hut you cannot know

the i jth of February, Japan has been under a constitutional government. The P' er is V' ted in a House of Commons con-

it too well.

It is t his: w hatr\ er j ou und

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the hest and surest guide to 9U [KN( i .