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were appointed by the Minister of that department on the recommendation 

of his assistant chiefs察of whom there was one in every district who was 

elected     by   the  people    after   having    passed    a  successful     examination 

showing their ability to do the work required of them。 

     Every   person     appointed     to  office察 as  well   as  those   elected    by   the 

people察had to be examined physically察mentally and morally in the same 

manner as those applying for a license to practice a profession or desiring 

to marry。 All were placed on the same footing。 The law for divorce was 

enforced      by   the  Department      of   Health察   as  doctors    were察  from    their 

knowledge of human frailty察the best judges to decide whether a man and 

woman should live together in the married state or be separated察and while 

the law provided for a compulsory decree of divorce for adultery察which 

was a felony察it also allowed divorce for incompatibility of temperament。 

A   court   of   six   Government   physicians察  three   males   and   three   females察

heard all divorce cases in every district。 

     The Minister of Health gave me the reasons why the marriage law was 

passed fixing twenty´one years of age as the time when young men and 

women could marry。 He said it was done to allow the youths of both sexes 

to   become     well    acquainted     with   one   another    before   being    united   in 

marriage察and also to be well trained in useful callings察so that both parties 

to the marriage contract would be able to assist each other察for many an 

innocent young girl had ruined her life by marrying a man at an age when 

she   was   ignorant   of   the   duties   of   wifehood   and   motherhood察   but       by 



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keeping our boys and girls in training schools until they are eighteen and 

then teaching them trades in the Army until they are twenty´one years of 

age we fit them for the duties of life。; 



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                          CHAPTER XVIII。 



                     A VISIT TO THE MINISTER OF STATE。 



     Before     returning    to  the  United    States   of  America     I  called   on   the 

Minister of State察who is also the presiding officer of the Parliament察and 

told him that I would regard it as a great favor if he would tell me how 

such   changes   had   taken   place   in   the   Government   of   his   country   察   for察─

said I察 from what I read about your Government when I was a boy it was 

an absolute monarchy察and one man's will was the law of the land。; 

     ;You have the key to the problem in that statement察─he replied察 for I 

am   free   to   confess   that   it   would   have   taken   centuries   to   have   brought 

about our present system of government under so´called democracy。 Near 

the middle of the last century an absolute ruler in our country by a stroke 

of his pen freed twenty´three millions of slaves察while in your country it 

required   four   years   of   bloody   war   at   a   cost   of   ten   thousand   millions   of 

dollars    and   the   lives  of   one   million    of  brave   men察   and   through     the 

widespread       demoralization      that  ensued    through     your   bravest   and    best 

being     killed  or  giving    to  the  corrupt    element    in  your    country    for  a 

dishonest man is always a coward the opportunity to inaugurate a reign of 

monopoly  where   graft   and   bribery   flourishes   and   the   slave   element   that 

you freed are a menace and will be as long as they remain in the country 

to society。 

     ;The last absolute ruler we had was one of those great men that God in 

His infinite wisdom brings into the world at stated intervals to exercise a 

dominating   influence   in   human   affairs   and   to   give   a   fresh   impetus   to 

human progress。 Of the great men that we class with him are the following此

Confucius察  Buddha   察  Julius   Caesar察  Oliver   Cromwell察Abraham   Lincoln。 

The first thing he did when he became Emperor was to summon sixty of 

the   most   liberal   minded   men   and   women   in   the   empire   to   the   palace   to 

draw up under his supervision a political察civil and penal code察which with 

slight   modification   is   in   force   at   the   present   time察  and   he   called   all   the 

newspaper       editors   into   conference     and    asked    them    to  assist  him    in 

promoting the welfare of the people and then he issued a decree granting 



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liberty of speech and of the press throughout Eurasia察which he announced 

as the name of the Empire in future察and the reason that he gave for it was 

that   his  people    were    composed      of  a  great   many    nationalities    and   by 

dividing the empire into districts and numbering them in arithmetical order 

he abolished the old political divisions and he also decreed that the present 

language we speak should be the official language of the empire for the 

ancient language of the ruling class had created a bitter feeling amongst 

great   numbers   of     the   people   and   besides   the   present   had   become     the 

commercial language of the world。 

     ;He   reorganized   the   Cabinet   into   fourteen   departments   and   held   the 

Minister   at   the   head   of   each   department   responsible。   He   converted   the 

Army      and   Navy    who    were    eating   up   the  hard´earned      wages    of  the 

working men and women of our land in idleness and dissipation察into a 

great    industrial   army    and   assigned    them    to  work    under    the  different 

departments       as   they   were    required察   weeding     out   the   worthless     and 

reducing to the ranks all officers that conducted themselves in a manner 

unbecoming a gentleman and by election of officers giving every soldier 

equal     opportunity     to   rise  to   the   highest    rank。   This   great    measure 

eliminated the aristocracy in the Army and made the Emperor the idol of 

the soldiers察so that from that time forward every effort of the aristocracy 

to   oppose   the   Emperor   in   giving   to   the   country   a   Government   by   the 

people     was   futile  for  the  Army   supported       him   with   a  force   that  was 

irresistible。   He   ordered   the   districts   laid   out   according   to  latitude   and 

longitude察making due allowance for population察the smallest district being 

one degree of latitude in breadth and two degrees of longitude in length察

and the largest which were situated in the frozen regions of the Arctic or 

in the great desert five degrees of latitude in breadth and ten degrees of 

longitude in length察and when they were surveyed he ordered that the land 

should be assessed without improvements at its full value察and the owner 

had to swear that he would sell to the Government the land at its assessed 

valuation。 

     ;The aristocracy almost to a man swore to a low valuation察so when 

five    years   had   passed    the  Emperor      issued   a   decree   appropriating      to 

Government use all land over and above six hundred and forty acres held 



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by private owners and paying for it one´fifth of the total assessment for the 

previous   five   years   with   twenty   per   cent。   added   for   improvements察  the 

aristocracy  had   to   accept   it   and   their   power   was   broken   forever察  for   the 

Emperor leased the land to the cultivators of the soil at the rate of four per 

cent。    per   annum   of    the   price   that  the   Government       paid   for   the  land察

dividing     the   land   into   small   farms    and   giving    the   renter   the  right   of 

purchase at any time。 

     ;The     aristocracy     and   the   Church     have    been   in   every   country     the 

enemies of liberty and human progress。 The Emperor saw the evil effects 

of the liquor traffic and to abate the evil he abolished the manufacture and 

sale of liquors by individuals and placed their manufacture and sale in the 

care    of   the  Department       of  Manufactures        and   year   by   year   he   added 

tobacco察drugs and chemicals察sugar察salt察tea察coffee察coal oil察stone coal察

charcoal   and   all   the   metals察  and   placed   the   coinage   and   currency  of   the 

Empire under the control of the Department of Finance known throughout 

the   world   as   the   Bank   of   Eurasia。   He   established   our   pres

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