Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-10
ADDRESS ON JAPAN"
Prof. ]. c. Monaghan Speaks at
Gonzaga College Hall.

Prof. ]. C. Monaghan delivered an ad-
dress before a large audience at meet
ing last evening in Gonzaga Hall for the
benefit of the Japanese missionaries of the
country. Father Ferrand Of the order of
French missionaries, made brief speech
prior to the lecture explaining the object
of the work. and making an appeal for lib
eral support.
In the course of his address Mr.. Mon
Afghan said:
The Japanese are said to be mere imita-
tors. Nothing could be further from the
fact. They do Initiate. They. study, and
study hard and faithfully. They borrow the
best of others. Three words, according to
their own estimate Of themselves express
the races or empires genius. They adopt,
adapt and become adept This has been
their history from the hour they took Budd
hism from the Chinese ENGRAVING its mon
othesm upon the polytheism Of Shintoism."
The speaker began by telling a story Of
Greek woman who, when sick and vast
ing away, was told by beautiful woman
met one day in the mountains that there
was only one power on earth that could heal
her. He who was then walking the paths
of pain on the way to Caivary, in Galilee.
The woman went up and after many peril
Gus days reached the hill of the cross with
the cavalcade Of the crucifixion. A drop
of the blood and water out of the Savior'S
side, when He was pierced by the CEN
turion's lance, cured her.
The speaker applied this story to Japan.
She needs she desires" he said, 1.-The heal
ing water and the blood of Christ. These
good men-the missionaries-hav gone
thither to give 1t to her About the jap
anese as about the Chinese we have long
been in error. We have regarded them
only recently emerging from barbarism, and
when, as a matter of fact, they have had
civilization and culture that reaches periods
far more remote than are reached by Euro
pean records. Their culture was exceeding
ly high. They had the printing press and
gunpowder before the birth of Christ. True
they did not use the latter in the civilized
way in which We use it. They put 1t to the
pastimes of children. They made it up into
more civilized westerners put it behind balls
of iron shells of steel and blew neighbors
and others to pieces. Ii
1T was SO with their ntera ture, their
laws, their industries, etc. The oath Of the
mikado, part of it, reads that he will
send experts abroad to study Others that
the best of what is brought back, at least
the parts suitable to his own people, he
VIII adopt and put into use practice.
The Japanese feel for us a fiial affec-
ton. They regard US as their friends and
liberators. They are keen iogicians Let us
tell them truthfully why we do not want
them in the San Francisco schools and they
will help us to solve the knotty problem
There Is no danger of war. The real
danger is different-it is industrial, COM
mercal. A wonderfully skillful fingered peo-
pie, working for pittance living on rice,
they will be able to beat us not only in the
markets of the east, but in our own and in
those of the rest of the world. This Is the
real and the imminent danger. OF this
nobody who knows the race has any doubt
The Japanese want the Christian relig-
ion; they want oriental philosophy, Greek
art, modern science. Can you blame them?"
In conclusion the speaker said: "Japan's
symbol is the rising acknowledgements;
what she and China seeks is peace, truth
and Justice