Policy Effect Quotes
women getting involved in political campaigns Here is yet another example where she spotted something new that would have a profound effect on the nation, and predicted the consequence long before other political figures even noticed something new wc;
Each side listens to their own candidate, applauding loudly, but the really, calm cool weighing of causes and results is difficult for any one of us to do. Perhaps we do it before we cast our ballot, but I wish we could do it all the way through the campaign and not have quite so much noise and ballyhoo, but a great deal more real thinking about the issues at stake. Neither party’s campaign staffs were happy with this column in the midst of a Presidential campaign.
Den was a liberal reformer. There were many liberal politicians in Japan until the right wing militarists took over. Most Japanese were extremely racist and wanted education to be segregated, not unlike the American South at the time. Den’s action described in this quotation was earthshaking to many Japanese. Integration of the schools was to them bad enough, but assimilating Chinese into the Japanese society was much worse.
Advising against altering duty rates for imports:
