The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-01-28

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other event. For it would roll back the
tide of war now raging in the east: il
would compel the robber nations to
leave their swords at home. It is in the
matter of nationality as it is in the
matter Of religion; how shall they hear
without a preacher and how shall tthey
preach patriotism or religion except
they be sent, and how shall they be sent
without a road? The flying maiEtrairl
dropping and picking up at full speed
the intelligence of the world is a mar
velous unifier and uplifter of the ma
lions. The peoples Of China and Mon
golia have taken very kindly to the tele-
graph. So soon as it is followed bp IA
pid transit ofpersons and things we are
likely to see leap forward ten times
more marvellous than that in Japan
because there are ten times as many
persons to leap. The Chinaman ur-
thermore is not a fatalist in practice,
but believes in doing things. And the
Chinaman whom we have learned is
subtle, adds to his subtilty diligence
Let him add to his diligence knowI
/ edge, and the worlds work viii get
done.
We have also International geo.
graphical and scientific societies.
Among the members not one of them
says that aught Of the things, which he
| possesses is his own but they have
all things common. By the medical
code no discovery in medicine is paten-
| ted, but It's discoyerer must impart il
to the entire profession, for use around
the world. The various observatories
of the world have parceled out the
heavens between them that each may
study section thereof and communi.
Self-interest as wei as the law of Christ
impels them to bear one another's bur-
| dens. s.
In the matter of common coinage
the progress that has been made is i'm
mense. Will this progress cease? In a
recent journey Of seventy odd days
(they were very add, tool required
| nine kinds of money, and 1t was not a
very good year for money either. Al
ready three European nations have uni
fled their coinage. This matter is now
being blocked only by the slow Turk
and his sauce dish, his habits and the
Anglo-Saxon nations-the British and
their ridiculous cart-wheel pennies OF
which they affect to be so fond.
Nothing but education is necessary to
do away with all this, SO that one super
scription may appear o nevery coin.
When we saw among Mohammedans
and Jews bride wearing her dowry
aA, rf a. rys1lt
scarce. sufficient to buy a coffin and
weight wholly sufficient to dray her
down into 1t, new point was given to
our Savior's parable Of the person who
gladly gave all he had for one pearl.
The traveller in China Is obliged to take
with him an ox.cart loaded with copper
cash. But the weight Of his ready mon
ey IS so great and the conveyance of 1t
SO slow that he has sometimes to re-
turn home for fresh start. 1t Is pos
sibly far fetched instance the money
at least is far fetched) of the useless Ia
Dor of the world,--a uselessness which
with our advancing knowledge and in
tercourse will soon become criminal.
for to kill time is also murder and its
punishment is sure.
But the times OF that ignorance God
overlooked and now commander all
men everywhere to repent. We are on
the eve of the day when one writ
against criminal will be good in every
orner OF the world. We have already
reached the morning when every CON
tribution at the knowledge and beau
ty and joy of the world finds humanity
everywhere laying claim to him.
Our lighthouse signals are freely
communicated between the nations.
The unity of natural law is leading ed
| ucated men to live in view of the soli-
darity Of the race who are the benefit
Charles of natural law. The telephone,
| which is disable by all races powerfully
suggests one language. The growth of
civilization is a commentary writ large
on the text, "None of us 1iveth to him
SELF What Patrick Henry discerned
in the narrow reach of the continental
coast colonies. is now perceived to be
true of mankind at large. AS fire in
New Haven affects an insurance COM
pany in London, so an outbreak in Chi
na an African war, affects the cotton
and hardware trade of Connecticut.
1t will not be a quarter of century
before weindergo a complete change of
attitude in regard to the yellow peril.
A laboring man was never more in de-
mand than he is to-day, and most of
all he is in demand in those countries
most notable for the use of machinery.
One of our poets, Lucy Larcom, worked
as mill hand In a Massachusetts, town
along with other self-respecting Ameri-
can born girls, but Lucy Larcom and
the other girls found something better.
They We're followed by the Irish. The
Irish have found something better. The
rise of Irishmen in America is at once
humorous and remarkable. Now the
Pole, the Hun, the Greek, the Italian
and the Russian have followed the
Irishmen. Will they remain at the bot
tom of the round? Already the italian
is becoming land owner and a mer-
chant. The same intelligence which
made the Greek the teacher of all ma
lions the Greek is capable of evincing.
He will not remain factory hand. 1t
is the wonder and the glory of Amer
lea that she has lifted more people and
lifted them faster in the scale of civil
ization than any other nation, ancient
or modern. A country like America is
capable in it's vast valleys and to-be-ter-
racad e1ones of intensive cJ1ltjva tiop is.