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under the influence of the voice of the people. Its days are numbered, and it will be overthrown by the popular party. A new Cabinet will be formed instead of the present despotic government. If the American government should actually sympathize with the present Cabinet, an anti-foreign reaction is sure to take place in Japan. The people will begin to look upon Americans, not as their friends, but as friends of a despotism which is trying to suppress freedom of press and speech and is daily sending the noblest sons of the nation to imprisonment and death.
