ABSTRACT
Suzuki, then, is an urban. I say it in full knowledge of possible contradiction, but I say it emphatically. The man on the farm is definitely not the man in the street in the generally opinionative sense. He is numerous, he is the backbone of the country, but perhaps he is this just because he is not opinionative. He has had a hard time, and he has listened in his day to Socialists and Communists. But he has listened to their promises of better times rather than to those of a better society. In his day, too, he has listened to the more orthodox politicians, and he has given them his vote and taken their cash. There has been very little exchange of opinion between those politicians and the man on the farm, nothing but a local and personal bargain, such as he understands. A local improvement for a group, from 1 yen to 3 yen for an individual, and in return, the vote! Such was the democracy as the man on the farm understands it.
