Foreign News: Dear, Gentle Japanese

Stirred to rapture by the week's events was Turin's Gazzetta dee Popolo:

"In order to judge the effects of 150 years of demo-liberalism in the United States, it suffices to see the sort of human feelings that have developed from it. To all this poltroonery one cannot imagine a better antithesis than the exquisite temperance and the sublime abnegation of the Japanese. Dear, gentle, elegant, heroic Japanese! Be welcomed at our side. We will conquer."

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