The Days of a Man 1:1911 



militarism, while near by, paying no attention to 

 my protests, a representative of "Big Money" in 

 European dress was busy riveting armor on a huge 

 blind figure of War. A sketch in another issue showed 

 me attired as an itinerant healer addressing the 

 "Peace populacc aud handing out bottles labeled *' Peace 

 Medicine" Mediciue," while the people crowded about, reaching 

 out with their hands and shouting, " We want one 

 peace." Below the legend read, "Medicine Man Very 

 Happy." 



In Japan (as in France) the provincial press is 

 too largely ignored; public opinion practically means 

 Tokyo. It is usually quite well-poised but prone to 

 lose its head where newspapers shriek of national 

 honor. And the man on the street cannot understand 

 why other nations are so much interested in China, 

 a country which as a whole fails to show effective 

 interest in its own affairs. "What should you folks 

 care about China when she cares nothing for her- 

 self.?" 



Sendai for Being iuvitcd to speak in Sendai, I now revisited 

 a second ^.j^^t fine notthem city after a lapse of eleven years, 

 the guest (as before) of Dr. Schneder. There I also 

 met many other old acquaintances, among them 

 Hayakawa, the venerable former mayor of the town, 

 who had spoken so feelingly at my conference with 

 the Council in 1900.^ 



Four talks had been arranged in as many different 

 schools, with a formal luncheon by Mayor Endo at 

 noon. But the chief event was the elaborate old- 

 time dinner given for me by Mr. Terada, governor 



time 



^ See Chapter xxvii, page 64. 



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