The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1902-01-02
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
General II. w. Carpenters Idea
For Helping China.
WISHES MORE sooIABLB RELATIONS

| btn tntNersity To Endow Professor
ship Actuatea by n Desire to Bring
About "A Bctter Understanding De-
IL Is now known that General Horace
w. Carpenter IL the donor of the S1OO..
600 recently given to Columbia univer.
sity for the founding Of a chair OF Chi.
nese language, literature, religion and
law. The gift Is intended ms a nucleus
for a fund which is expected to reach
something like S1,0o0,OO0.
1t is the idea Of the donor that the
chair shall be the means of bringing
about better understanding between
the Chinese nation and the people of
the United States. The professorship
will bear the name of Dean Lung, a
cultured Chlnaman, who is a friend OF
General Carpenter. When asked by a
reporter of the New York Herald con.
cerning the gift, the general made no
denial that he was the donor.
"It would be mere affectation in me-"
mystery of what has in some way be-
come known to everybody who cares
to know about 1t. IL gave the money
to Columbia university, my private
reasons were simply that L wished to
give 1t and that 1 could give it. The
public reason has been so much dis
cussed that think 1t is obvious"
I,a II l.
lie reason which actuated him may be.
learned from document which Is now
part of the records of Columbia univer-
sity. 1t is n note which was inclosed
with a check for 100000 sent to Presi-
dent Low At that time 1t was under
stood that the name of the donor was
not to be made public. 1t was only re-
Gently that the identity Of the donor
became generally known.
In this note the reasons for making
the gift are set forth as follows:
i am told that doubts have been ex-
pressed whether such an approprlat ton
would be wise or practically useful Pos
sibly not IL is not always easy to foresee
results or TO measure their value, especial
ly when the means are largely tentative
II Is said that the Chinese have no reli-
gion. IL this means only that our religion
Is not their religion, IL need not be denied
II religion may be well defined as "emo-
ton concerned about obligation and duty"
then the Chinese are a religious people.
And when IL Is considered that they are
made up OF several hundred millions, OF
like origin. race and character. earth born
and firmly rooted In the soil, bound to-
gether by the common usage and tradi-
tions OF incalculable generations and weld
ed iato one nation by many cooperative
causes and especially by the unifying
force OF a written literary language; that,
with their unrivaled endurance. temper
ance and industry their devotion to fam
lily and almost superstitious love Of home
holding to their purpose with the con-
serVatism OF Englishmen and the tenacity
OF lsrael-they are possessed by patient
patriotism that never changes or forgets
that, with common, though variant
speech, full and expressive and older prob
ably than any other living tongue now
spoken elsewhere. they are also a scholar
ly people. with an abundant literature no
less venerable than those we call classical
and that have done so much 20 soften and
reform our institutions and manners. that
they have inherited a civliza Ton reaching
back into the forgotten past ass Pr 1s any
of those that grew up around t..a Nieditag-
ranean. but less sensual and sun tlous:
that they have a complete system OF an
cient and customary law well fitted to
their needs and condition, regulating all |
the varied relations of civilized life-of
family. society and governmental system |
that had grown up through infinite trials |
and failures until habit acquired the force |
and sanction Of moral law, long before |
the makers of our common law had come |
out from their immemorial savagery, |
without arts, agriculture or letters and |
clothed, II at all. with the skinslof beasts; |
that. be 1t for good or III and whether we |
like II or not, by a manifest destiny no |
longer unrevcaled, but now I'm course OF |
swift fulfllment, we are brought together |
In close neighhorhood, facing each other |
and separated only by quick ferry across |
a Pacific sea hereafter to become in large
measure Characterization sea, with in |
dustrial and trade relations already of no /
mean proportions and which must soon |
grow TO billions annually, and. finally. |
that we claim To have a higher gospel. |
which In its own spirit of peace, fairness
and good VIII we would impart to other
less favored peoples. Considering these
among other things. would II not be re-
proach to this universlty-"M Mother Of HUI
10 have taken first step
In this direction TO promote a better un-
derstanding, a larger comfy and more
hospltable relations?
No one has been chosen as yet TO fill
The chair which General Carpenter has
The name Of Wu Ting Fang
las been suggested. The general
thought that Il was unlikely that WI
Ting Fang would accept such a posi-
ion, as his genius and ability fitted
him for the broader field of statesman
ship.
General Carpenter Is an alumnus of
Columbia university He is now sew.
'nty-scven years old. He lives at 10s
Cast Thirty-seventh street. He has
made his home In New York for the
asst twenty years, making frequent
ourncys TO San Francisco to look after
lis interests there.
She Was disappointed In KipIinr.