自叙伝(9) Tanaka Shozo Autobiography

1884年　４２歳

依之、県庁の下栃木町に在り、三四十日間、県官其他人心の如何に方向するかを視察す。何ぞ図らん、人心に旧県令藤川を捨てて忽ち三島に諂諛するもの、櫛の歯を挽くよりも細かなり。

Therefore I stayed for thirty or forty days in Shimo-tochigicho where the new head office of the prefecture was to be located.I wanted to  watch in which direction the general opinion may go,I was surprised most of the people were so quick to desert the former Governor Fujikawa and to be so eager to accept Mishima as their new master.

正造、初め藤川為親と談合せざるは、多くこれ官民自然の数なり。然れども藤川の下野に在る、世論は服従するの県令たり。いま三島の暴人と代る、県民の驚き一方ならず。

A deep gap existing between the government officials and private citizens made me hesitate to talk with Fujikawa Tamechika at the beginning.Now he is out of office and this was the Governor whom people supported.It was not a small surprise for people when they were told that he was replaced with this violent man.

機敏なる紳士は、早くも本籍を東京に移したり。木村半平も逃げたる一人なり。官吏は病なりと称し、出京して三島の門を叩き、有志県官多くは三島の威に服す。

Gentlemen who are quick to see the change have already moved their registered locality to Tokyo.Kimura Hanbei was one of the people who fled.Bureaucrats took sick leave and knock the door of Mishima's residence in Tokyo.Most of the officials here are submissive to the authority of Mishima.

田中正造、横堀三子、小峰新太郎、川島多十郎、長谷川展、相場杢右衛門、新井安太郎、山口信治、矢部盛徳、川俣久平、市川安右衛門、和田方正、塩（鹽）谷道博、横尾輝吉等、藤川為親の継続を内務に請はんと騒ぐ、而してまた反応者ありて成らず。

Tanaka Shozo,Yokobori Sanshi,Komine Shintaro,Kawashima Tajuro,Hasegawa Noboru,Aiba Mokuuemon,Arai Yasutaro,Yamaguchi Sinji,Yabe Moritoku,Kawamata Kyuhei,Ichikawa Yasuemon,Wada Norimasa,Shioya Michihiro,Yokoo Terukichi and others were eager to try to request the Interior Ministry,Tokyo,not to replace Fujikawa Tamechika with Mishima.But some people objected to our efforts and we failed.

藤川の大送別を栃木町鯉安楼に開く。県官等、三島を怖れて来らず。会員僅に十人、他は田中の郷里より来れるものを合はせて三十人のみ。茲に於て正造思はず涙流れ、慷慨措かず。

We held a farewell party for Fujikawa at Koiyasuroh hall in Tochigicho.Officials did not show up being afraid of offending Mishima.Only ten members and twenty others from my hometown attended the party.Tears fell from my eyes and I felt angry seeing what was happening.

田中正造 1841年12月15日 - 1913年（大正2年）9月4日Tanaka Shozo dedicated his life for the farmers who were victimized by the pollution of Ashio Copper Mine. He is one of the pioneers of environmental movement in Japan.

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