The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-03-16
STRONGLY
FOR JAPAN.
Dr. Gardner, ii Address, Scores
Russians and Lauds Little
Yellow Men.
RUSSIA NOT j OUR q { FRIEND + 1: %
1Xell-knowil Pastor Says Amer
icai1S1ntetests AtesWitliB
Japan. .$5558E

Gsa$ Jdpdrl.e N .9i' i6 5ji
Before a large audience assembled last
| night at the Leigh street. Baptist Church,
under the auspices Of the Mons Chris
Titan Club, the Rev. Dir. G. s, Gardner
4 delivered un address In which he catno
out sdunrely and Sunequivocally for japan
against russia. und invoked the success
Sol tho Japanese airing, Il ~ ~ "a
Tho subject discussed BY Or. Gardner
4 ,yas Right VS.. Might In the Far East. !"
lie said that d great drama IS being 81,
acted ]; Ia tho far East, With the whole.
worldtsns interested observer But the
drama Is belng enacted with. the cur /
\ tain or the censorship hiding tho sccr%.S$
He asked what do Japan and Russia
/ stand for. Japan stands for open ports.8
| free religion. the educating Of the peo-igs
lple, ta# free press and constitutional gov
ernment. 5 ii &. l3sS
Russia stands for fatltocracy III rel ION
and government, the suppression OF the me
| Individual. a 11uzzled press nnd o. cerl- (
\ sored literatnr ri * Ii 5;
After speaking Of the comparative
4 forces engag ed iund the possible issues
OF tho contest. he said 5s az. 554 fs9
I'VE hear much in these days OF the
|Bs.'Ycllow PERIL One thing IS certain
The millions Of Eastern Asia ca y no Ion g.
3er be EFT In their sleepy isfatIon. The
waters Of that dead sea Or humanity
are going to be stirred. VIII the lcad der
ship OF this vast mass of mel, ia TO
Russia or Japan !? I5y den tly there are
| Russiun agencies at work endeavorlng
| to spread abroad a terror Of the yellow
race led by u apan. Blu the yellow peI,!
lilies rather In Russian donrsnat lon OF
II Asia Tho danger lies In the posi- bllity y
That China may be organized and mobi-&
I5lized but not civilized and Chrlstianiz y.
|iThnti is iexactly{the characteristic Of RUS
gsin IL expansion. Russia does not 8civ!lizef
and educate ana refine her subject POI ~
ulatton, but sho does organic them VII
o. strong hand. II the mi lions OF China
should be SO treai ed they Wouid 81naeed 81
10 d menace to the civilz ed Worl J apan
would boz the medium by which Christi
arity.$as We understand t aid ives ter 4
! Ideas would he introduced. ana 20 E CIV
\ ilize and Christianize China Is % SAFE
guard OF the best Interests OF the hu-3
man race. ~. ~ Il
IS imtatl SGe gnd ori H5s1a
spirit, Yin the fibre OF her II &c, but ~! she
| las las nAici, Of the quickness Of perception
and adj piabIlityto new condlt lons Wh !! e.
! cnnracteriz IS the Anne rican pc pie Sne
4 rs exactly ted to- ct u media tor. bet Ween
i the IVES Z and the asst And t is unques-s
Il tiona b!y w through her ca uers ~ ina ! Inc
yastGpopu.a ton OF Els tern Asia can pest
i lid broug ht& under the. s,wa @ Z lnodorh5
i iideasG and Christian Unfit es.
j 83f Russian expansion has Deen Apply chslI-
acterized as3s'a creeping poaJsaGal paln M
i Ideals and aims than japan, ana 81 inc
same time has less spiritual sym pat n!
with TIC peoples sae Wq ~ I'M y =,
81 progress 81. inc spviid Gro us 'po WerI OF her
aulocrat ics bsa ilro ca Of
der5witil but would be 4 az order or
japan stands for. the open, policy, the
policy OF civil, podt. call rel glous AMI an
commercial sveopmen Ru SIN &iora f e.
pocyt q PGneyh ned
states to favor? Tie question ought not
10 he answered by sentiment nut by
practical common sense. Let the genus mus
/ we give our sympathy to the nation
which we ourselves have led out. Of her
ancient eXclusiveness into the Ways q
civic and religious ideals negative ours
| at "every po.nt--a nation With whom we
areS outSof sympathy in all o. r. Jews 81
Hal aa aesss TITUS Russia IS
| witli civil and rellg Gus prog ttss, then
| America Is another name for anarc ny and
decay In the social order nd the moral
lslife II 81 "A a, I. g.,
1 we cannot escape this sharp anti thesis
Read the utterances Of ti1eir, !, own repre-.
| sentative men, and You VIII seq tnat5
|telIect Russia and America are the two
|Bolpositc poles Of the sUc:al uni verse; II
the Russian Ideal is true then our !, & "a thers
fought and Gied lor. Sll LEI, taisehoods
whose baleful influence will sonnerG or
later destroy all clyiilza I ION. Favor, r us
| sia? Not until we hay Q syorg often whence
We came, Z for what we stand and & e
what m ssion We as g people are =, eatlea;
La friend OF the Uni.eu States That sun
| impossibl4ty, She has always strlyen to
Iuse America to weaken I En- land. But
b taea Msea she L. hated England. Russia ha
Railways sought to divide and TO keep
alIenated the two great branches OF the
Ehg.ish.spealipg people, Was Sit not; and
and Keep alienated the .Angl Saxon PEG.
pes, while she, representing the united
nj ght Of the slay race Went forth g
establish the ,World,supremnoy OF those
civic and religious ideals which are most
| hateful to every man who speaks tho
English ianguage ? she would hel ~ us as
| against England because En- Sland mas
M pphhw aSd hai sys
No, Never, When light and darkness kiss
=! each other; then vii Russia and An,er!-
| ca love each her. Our interests In this
grsgs1s ans WIFI VIII her ass
dearer interests OF ours repre- sented IN our
higher life are with her:
NAV the mghNt q mb Tgh yb % d IL ssr
VERY GOOD NEWS
FOR ssHIP-YARD.s
tb syMs ar pso tpaiki III ab p express the
| opinion that the reopening Of the TrIgg