New Asia - An Organ of Oriental Culture and Thought April 1939

May we only suggest that the self-ordained Board of Trustees retire from the field for a while enabling the rest of the world to appraise in a disinterested way the debit and credit balances of the European powers from the point of view of the starving the diseased ancfthe 3ying millions of their colonial empires. [...] It meant the elimination of class despotism in the form of the Tokugawa Shogunate which had existed as an intemediary institution blocking the direct relationship between the Throne and the people and the realization of the great ideal of "government by the Emperor assisted by all His people " the basic principle of the national polity of our Empire. [...] However the ideal for which the leader of the Progressive Party had long fought for came to be realized by the significant decision made by the Emperor Meiji the most illustrious Sovereign in the modern world who discerned the cultural progress of the times took decision to promulgate the Constitution in 1888 and to inaugurate the Imperial Diet in 1889 against which of course no clan leader [...] I knew of course of the Palace as the official residence of the Spanish Captain General who was also the Governor-General of the Philippine Islands ; and my idea of the grajide«r of the place was in harmony with my conception of the power and authority of the personage occupying it. [...] Protection to labour especially to working women and minors just regulation of the relations between labour and capital in industry and agriculture solicitous regard on the part of the government for the well being of the masses are the means to bring about the needed economic and social equilibrium between the component elements of society.