Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1886-03-04
PROFESSOR YOUNG's ADDRESS.

what n Washington Friend of the
"Sentincrs" Editor Ha 90 Say
of IL.
The editor Of the SENTINEL yesterday re-
ceived a private letter from a friend IN
Washington, d. Can employe in the In
terror Department-who had the pleasure
of listening to Professor Young's address
before the National Teachers Institute,
held recently in that city. From the letter
we publish the following extract, which we
know will be of interest especially to the
many friends of our State Superintendent
of Public Instruction:
II was evident at the beginning PROBES
sor Young, of your State, was to closely
interest his audience on his mastery expo
sition called the "Co-education Of the
Races" In other words he took" His
pleasing personality, dignifed delivery,
and forcible presentation of new PROPOSE
tions in the Chinese problem. that 30 be-
fuddles the American citizen, solon and
philosopher to-day, captured the hearts
and minds of his cultivated hearers. They
were enlightened to an Incompatible de-
gree, as the Professor turned over to their
gaze leaf after leaf, on which we're the
vivid pictures of the Chinese cancer on the
body polite. This national convention OF
practical educators do not handle educa.
tional matters abstractedly; they discuss
and plan and then go forth to carry out
theoretically the plans, and Professor
Young, in receiving their applause. con.
CALCULATIONS n encomiums, has reasons
for treasuring up these merited compli-
ments in bis memory as priceless jewels.
He has SO strongly entrenched himself in
the esteem and respect Of this body that be
il now openly advocated as the incoming
President of the Association, which meets
during the coming July a. Topeka, Kansas.
His position, however, against mixed
schools, wherein to educate the Indian,
Malay, Chinese, and Caucasian, was the
"red rag " that brought into the arena of
discussion the disciples OF the Wendell
Phillips school, they fercely assailing
that policy. The Northern and New
England ultraists knew that was and is
the Southern feeling, but they were hardly
prepared TO see a bold Western representa-
tive of education come alone and single
handed into their midst and fearlessly ex-
pound and advocate that doctrine as the
palladium of national progress. These ex-
tremists would bosom all human types
regardless of results TO their W moral
and political %well-being. They would
imam and brother the Chinese whether
he would be " brothered" or not. They
would drag him forcibly from his opium
dens and deities inside the environments
of Christianity among the pure and spot
less, believing that his spiritual nature
could be cleansed without they themselves
experiencing the evils of his contaminat-
ing presence. Nevertheless, the Professor
sat unabashed ct these onslaughts. He
showed the courage that comes from the
consciousness that those leagues away
from the seat Of operations cannot, pos
sibly, in the nature OF things, occupy as
i~mpregnable a position and comprehen-
sively grasp the situation as those who
deal daily with the problem. All in all,
the Professors paper" has had a very
stirring effect upon Washington people,
the press highly praising it and the clergy
referring to ii favorably.