The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-03-24
THE WAR IN THE ORIENT.
Speakers on Japan and Russia AddresI


 the Get-Together Club.
 Professor Winfred R. Martin, of Trim 1 ity college, addressed the Get-TogetheI club, of Hartford, at Jewell hall Mon day evening, on Russia" giving the first in a. series of brief discourses on that country and the Mikado's empire He said in part:
 It is necessary to consider the nation as an individual. As nation we must very impetus of life is in fighting. He referred to Czar Nicholas plea for The Hague conference, its very breath one of peace and it's composition magnifi- cent. To-day we see Nicholas as the fighter and aggressor. Russia Is a world power.
 Japan took up the war with Russia, he said, as a necessity, and it was not wholly a war between Japan and Rus sia, but one between autocracy and de- nocracy. The administration of China must be maintained.
 Professor H. A. Perkins, of Trinity, spoke briefly of Russia from impress sions received while in that country. He maintained that the impression pre- vailing in this country that Russia was bugaboo country was unmerited. In some respects it's civilization might even give America points. He predia. ted that some day it would be as civil ized as Germany. According to Profes- sor Perkins the popular conception of Russia is a. serious perversion of the truth. The people are happy, contented and reasonably prosperous, the state of learning and art in the great cities nearly as advanced as in Germany, and the aims of the government are all in the direction of progress.
 Yung Wing, of Hartford, was enthu- siastically applauded. The speaker maintained that the struggle under con- sideration did not involve wholly terri torial ggrandizement, but, as we'll, the principles of true Christianity and pseudo-C Christianity. The superstition of the Chinese was readily understood, he said, and the church which catered to this might by keeping them in con- tinued ignorance more readily govern them. George Kennan would not lead us to believe that the Russian was a nation to raise a country to higher grade of civilization, he said, and he read a review of atrocities laid to that country's door.
 Kerachi Hirayami, of the Hartford Theological seminary, resident of Ta- rumidau, Japan, spoke of the united ness and resolution of his countrymen in this war. He said that Japan's ideals were high and her principles true. Ja- pan will be willing to die, and happily, he said, if she can leave on the pages of history the record of having fought for the high moral principles which ac- tuate her.
 Tatsu Tanaka, of the seminary, a res- ident of Tokyo, briefly reviewed condi- tions leading up to the war due to Rus sia's failure to keep her agreement con- corning the evacuation of Manchuria.
 Prior to the dinner business meet ing was held. Treasurer William H. Scoville reported one hundred and eight dollars in the treasury. The following officers were elected for the following year:
 Board of directors, the Rev. pr. J. c. Adams, Alfred r. Richards, W. H. Cor bin, D. R. Howe, 0. B. Cotton, Alfred P. Clifford and Noel H. Jacks; secreta- ry, B. Norman Strong; treasurer, w.. II. Scoville.
 Bridgeport, rector of the Russian Or thodox church in that city, was on the list of speakers, but was absent.