The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-05

and not leave the results to chance.
take Il for granted that our duty
to the s0-called inferlOr races 10 non
discharged by merely feeding them In
times Ut famine or BY contributing to
their temporary support when some
other calamity Overtakes them. A
much greater assistance ID rendered
them when they are led to Q moro
elevated plane Of thought and activity
by ideals which stimulate them to self
development. The improvement of the
people themselves should be the nara
mount object In all intercourse with
the Orient.
Among the blessings which the
Christian nations are ut this time able
and In duty bOund-tO carry to the
rest of the world. I may mention Ave:
education. knowledge Of the science
Of government. arbitration az Il sub
stitute for war. appreciation of the
dignity Of labor and high conception
Of life.
Education comes first. and in moth
ing have the United States and Eng
land been more clearly helpful than
In the advocacy Of universal educa-
ton. Ii the designs OF God are dis
closed by His handiwork. then the
creation of the human mind Ia un-
dOubtedly proof that the Almighty
never intended that learning should be
mOnOpOlized by few. and he arrays
himself against the plans of Jehovah,
who would deny intellectual training
to any part of the human race. 1t is
false civilization, not true one,
that countenances the permanent sep
aratiOn of society into two distinct
classes. the one encouraged to improve
the mind and the other condemned to
hopeless ignorance. Equally false Is
that conception of international poll
tics which would make the prosperity
Of one nation depend upon the ex-
ploitation of another. While no one
is far sighted enough to estimate with
accuracy the remote. or even the I'M
mediate. consequences Of human &C.
ton. vet as we can rely upon the
principle that each individual profits
rather than loses by the progress and
prosperity of his neighbors, so we can
not doubt that 1t is to the advantage of
each nation that every other nation
shall make the largest possible use Of
its own resources and the capabilities
of its people.
No one questions that Japan's influ-
ence has been beneficient one since
she has emerged from illiteracy and
endowed her people with public schols
open to all her boys and girls. The
transition from position of Obscurity
into a world power was scarcely more
rapid than her transition from men,
ace into an alley. China is entering
upon a similar experience and l am
confident that her era of reform will
make her, not a yellow peril but a
powerful co-laborer in the interna-
tional vineyard. In India. in the Phil
ippines, in Egypt and even in Turkey
statistics show gradual extension of
education and trust will be par
doned If say that neither the armies,
nor the natives, nor yet the commerce
of our nations, have given us so just
a claim to the gratitude Of the people
of Asia as have our school teachers,
sent, many of them, by private rather
than by public funds.
The English language has become
the vehicle for the conveyance of gov
ernmental truth even more than for
the spread of general information. for
beginning with Magma Charter and
continuing through the era of the
American revolution and the Declare
ton of independence down to the
present, no language has been SO much