The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-01

All over the Orient go our American school teachers. They start by gather ing around them a little group of stu dents, and these become centers of civ- ilization. I find that 1t costs on an av- craze $50 a year to feed and clothe and pay the tuition of a student read not long ago the expense of attending Yale college, and I think saw 1t was about $500 a year for student. Pos sibly some could go through for less, but if you are going to tell boy how much it will cost him to live in an or dinary average way you could hardly expect him to do it on less than the $500 q year.
 1 talked with man few months ago who had two boys in Yale college. was asking him to give something to another institution and he said that he couldn't afford it; that he had two boys at Yale and they cost him Sl,5O0 year He was spending on those two boys what 1t would cost him to educate sixty in India or China.
 My friends, I believe that when one t VI lLlG4 IICGQS -OL lIl6 C1ASAAs S'A V hAAACA stood there win be hundreds of thou sands of Americans willing to sacrifice that they may help to bring light to those people and lift them up to high CT level
 Who will measure the influence of one life to the educated rise of over two hundred millions of people crowded to- gether in a small space, where they come in contact with each other, where they need so much? What can one per- son do? No one can tell what one per- son can do. No one. can tell what one VI boy or girl educated in this country will do or can do, What an opportu- nifty for those who want to do some thing!
 l saw this educational movement everywhere. Iii Turkey was talking with the governor of one of the states, and I asked him what progress they were making in education, and he said they have found out in Turkey that if they are going to be able to stand up with the rest of the world their people will have to be educated. He was en- couraging education in his state. One of the viceroys in China told me that in his district in five years he had him. self established 4,000 public schools. That is what they arc doing there; that in his district he had established 1000 in five years. He told me that at that time there were 5000 students in Japan sent away to learn new methods. With in five years they have abandoned their old system of examination that was in force for thousand years, and they have adopted the American Idea, Eu- ropean idea, of the school. They are now educating women as we'll as men. It was only a few months ago that one of the viceroys presided at the laying of the cornerstone of the Woman's col lege. In Japan I visited womens school where they had 500 students, and 1t was founded only about five years ago.
 Education is going on all over the world. Go up the Nile and you will find schools established by all demo- nations of the Christian church. They have led the people there to insist upon them, and one of their demands is that they shall have more schools. These people are demanding more schools more education, more opportunity. Sc this educational movement Is going on everywhere, and where we can help think we ought to.
 Not only that, but there is another movement going on in the world. Ii was a great democratic movement, and h need not assure our republican friends that I do not use democratic" in q partisan sense of the term, but in that broader sense in which democracy means the rule of the people, in that broader sense in which Lincoln employ ed 1t when he spoke of government "of the people, by the people and for the people" (Applause)
 There is no nation on earth where you will find as much progress in the demo- cratic sentiment.
 Speaking to a prominent minister oi one of the countries of Europe about the auestion of suffrage, l said to him "Don't you know that suffrage will be E extended in your countryg' He said: ''Yes, 1t will be but we are trying tc make 1t as slow as possible" He recog- nized that it was bound to come, and that that for which he stood must be defeated. But he said the conditions there were such that they did not want the change to take place too rapidly This movement toward bringing the government nearer the people is uni