The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-05-07
JOSEPH COOK.
synopsis of His Lecture at the First Con.
Rrexataonal Church Saturday Night.

many respects. It's extent, its depth, its
earnestness contained an eloquence that
hushed the audience in motIonlessness
and silence and invoked q reverential
awe as the large and cultured audience
were swayed to and fro by the great
waves of thought.
Mr.. Cook, who was pleasantly intro
duced by Rev. F. I. Ingalls,,
said that perhaps the people
had come out expecting to hear of the
seven ancient wonders of the world, but
3 description of these things would not
"hush the house." would not produce
the effect desired by the lecturer, and
therefore he preferred to speak OF seven
modern wonders.
The first wonder discussed was that of
rapid transportation. Caesar, he said,
could in 100 days ride around the Ro-
man empire; but now we can send q
letter around the globe in ninety days
If by the means OF transmitting news In
those days Cesar could calf all people Cd
the Mediterranean coast his neighbors,
then we have a right to-day to call eli
| peoples, the world over, our neighbors
There is to-day no people that can live
behind q screen. AS Bismarck has said,
the entire globe Is a chess board, and
every movement thereon is subject to
the closest scrutiny. Caesar could start
at Alexandria, travel through north.
ern Egypt, visit his possessions
in Gaul, cross the Alps, and
in 100 days his chariot wheels would
again be rolling In the streets of Alexan-
dria. Cicero and other philosophers
praised this great speed, but compare it
with the rapidity OF the present trans
Portation. If q vessel could sail on
smooth water direct from New York to
San Francisco, it could make the trip in
less time than the swiftest train. When
the telegraph line now in process of con-
struction IS completed, news can be sent
six times around the world within an
hour. In this country we have few
editors who are ambitious to have q
national daily, but it is not possible. One
man has proposed to erect 3 telegraph
line and publish the same matter at six
or seven points. We can have a national
monthly, or a national weekly, but must
be satisfied with that in this country.
But the telegraph and cable now reach
throughout the civilized world and news
from one nation or country soon breaks
in foam and thunder upon neighboring
shores. You can say without the least
II IS uvhan fhn
bear and the lion lock jaws in the coun-
try of AfghanIstsn the news Will be
heralded throughout the civilized world
before blood can be drawn. Thus by
the rapid flight of news the whole world
Is brought close together.
Speaking of the difference of people
he said there are some persons who seem
to love the whole world, others only
his own nation, while some ex-
allied the southern, the northern,
the eastern or the western
| states, and some the immediate localities
or cities in which they lived, while not
few were wrapped up within their own
selves. To burst all these cocoons is
my object, for life, said he, is only a
brief CLEAN between two eternlties.
Having thus spoken of the first mod
ern wonder of the world, he said lest he
should disappoint some that he would
speak few words on the seven ancient
wonders, which he said, If his memory
had not forssken him since he escaped
from the university, were:
The COLOSSUS of Rhodes. Diana's Tenn
pie at Ephesus, the Mausoleum at
Hslicsrnassus, the Pyramids, the
Pharos at Alexandria, the Hanging
Gardens Of Babylon, and the Olympian
Zeus. He also spoke of a Boston pro-
fessor who had, by the close
study of science concluded that
the Garden of Eden might
haYe been located at the north pole.
This, said he, might be true, for the
signs OF rank vegetation in the past exist
in northern Siberia. But this will not
hush the soul. Let Us stand at the equa-
tor and look at the consultations of the
north and the consultations of the south
with which as they proceed in the great
march of the universe the very soldiers
in heaven keep step. 1t is this immen
sity, this eternity, that bushes the soul
Back Of all this is one power the infinite
Truly God only Is great. No port, nc
. port, only link In the endless chain.
He then spoke of the moral and mar
J rated to some extent the progress of thC
, Japanese government during the pas
thirty years. No nation since the time
of Rome, has made SO much progress il
the same length of time.
The land of the rising sen has ceased
to be the land of bats. He said he wa!
ashamed of England for carrying on thu
opium trade with India. ashamed o
France for tagging the military powe
of China, and ashamed of this country
3 for their treatment of emigrants from
; the celestial empire. We make a big
. fuss over the Chinaman who works fol
? so cents a day and returns to his natIv,
country with q few dollars. Yet it 1
e all right for the wealthy EnGlishman I,
3 come west and purchase ranch o
thousands of acres and monopo
l. AlZO Jul oOlA anu ECIuEu u
= his own country without taking out hi
( naturalization papers. Said he, 9TH
d stockings of John Chr aman are cIeane
r than the collars of great many Euro
!. pean emigrants." He believed that i
{ he had a dog that chewed tobacco ant
f used opium he would be tempted t
! shoot him. Let US cease to be led il
reference to the celestial empire by III
A., hoodlums of the western coast. If Chin
;. takes courage, if she loses her conceit
. she will rise, and rise to stay. Let u
put China and japan under the wing o
International law and foster their pre-
gress.
The speaker said that when he ad
;. dressed an audience of 5000 people il
Calcutta an Indian reformer stood befor
that vast assembly of British subject
and said: 1.-THE crown of India belongs
10 the founder of Christianity and not Il
i Queen Victoria" The caste system, h
j said, was fast disappearing. England
3 was shooting through India Christianity
the railroad and the telegraph, anC
5 mighty avalanches of reform havu
, poised in that country and are almos
/ ready to fall and wipe away Psganlsm
/ In 100 years SAID the speaker, India vii
; be strong enough to throw of the Eng
T lish yoke, but I trust she will also havl
, the good sense to remain under it. Thu
page of colonial history is fast turning
and we must now seek to deepen cIvlliza
tion as well as to spread it.
Speaking further of the English gov.
eminent, he said, if Prince ALDER
should prove q weak ruler he may b,
EnGland's last royal sovereign. Speak
ing to an audience in Melbourne, b,