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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-06
Frank G. Carpenter, Special Correspondent
of the Times-Dispatch, Gives Some Dark
Pictures of the Situation In Morocco
The Country Unsafe and
Holy War Imminent.
Holy War Imminent.

time before the capture OF Perdicaris. and
was kept twenty-three days in the noun
tains. During that time he was thirty
six hours without food. and his treat
ment by Raisuli was such that he will
not risk being kidnapped again. He
salked with me about the situation in his
rooms in the cecil Hotel and complained
rather bitterly OF the fact that he had
to live in the town. and at the same time
keep a large corps OF servants to protect
his property on the edgerof Tangier. As
1t is now. he dare only visit his home
in the daytime, and that by riding
along the beach. The governor of Tan
der has a force OF fifty soldiers watcn-
ing this villa. but even with them 1t is
unsafe after dark
How Robber Keeps Order.
1T takes thief to catch thief"
This is an old rule. hut it is one which
holds good here in Morocco. At present
the country west OF Tangier Is quie-,
because the Sultan has bribed Raisuli 10
take care of it. This same brigand, who
captured, an American citizen and made
the Sultan pay ransom Of s70,c1o ne
fore he would let him CO. has been APP
pointed by the Sultan the governor of
the Taugier district His soldiers are now
the only guard OF. Tangier Itself
/ find them in every street, and they
are patroling the chief roads outside
the town. / took donkeys yesterday and.
rode out over the hills to the villa where
Mr.. Perdlcaris lived when he was cap
tured was accompanied by my son
Jack and my turbaned guide, Hadj Mo-
manned Brock. We found sentries at
every few feet and passed through an
encampment of troops at the edge of the
city. The soldiers wore red Fee caps and
gay Moroccan uniforms. Most of them
We're bare legged and bare footed. They
were armed with Mauser rifles and their
fierce eyes looked out OF their bearded
faces at us without smiling. They Were
not at all friendly. and when they OBJ
jected to being photographed did not in
sist.
There are soldiers like these all along
the main road from here TO Fee, the
capital OF Morocco. That city lies about
40 miles in the interior and the road
from Tangier to it is one Of the most
travelled of all in Morocco. Nevertheless,
every foreigner who goes over it has to
take a guard furnished by Raisuli, and
to pay for his support on the way.
In the meantime, Rasuli holds a Pc
culiar position in Moroccan politics. He
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gational kindergarten and training school
for Undergraduates at Kobe. conducted
by Miss Howe easily leads in this form
of instruction, and it would rank with
the best institutions OF similar nature
at home.
In all fairness it should be said. how
ever. that after close inspection of many
schools. both government and mission
airy, of all grades, 1 must pronounce in
favor of the latter in certain particulars.
In the first place, they are manifestly
neater and cleaner and moro attractive
to the eye. They are designed With
greater care for comfort of the pupils,
though all such matters as sanitation
and hygiene, the amount of floor space
and air space per pupil etc. are regu-
lated infinitely by the government Ihere
is a greater freedom and brightness and
individuality noticeable among mission
school pupils. In the government schools
the girls live so closely by rote, and SO
greatly resemble automatons. that one
IS tempted to try the effect of the sud
don introduction of mouse. More I'M
portant yet, the mission schools, espe-
ciallv those for girls, are unquestonabiy
safer and are chosen by more careful
parents for this reason Upon this point
T shall write presently; but hrst let me
mention the greatest present educauonal
and missionary opportunity III osIp''i''
What Japan Wants From
America.
Tn conference with score of Japan
esq leaders only two white men besides
myself being present, bluntly asked
what japan thinks Of tho missionaries
and what form OF mission work now
needs doing. BY common consent their
Spokesman was n man whose conspicuous
work has won him decoration from
the Emperor, and as his Judgment COIN
sides with the views expressed to mo by
other candid Japanese, l quote his opin-
ion:
Japan most needs help In education
and philanthropy. II mission schools are
to bo maintained, let them be tlrst-class
as schools. But il America really wants
to help us most effectually she should
send teachers, strong, able, Christian
teachers, to enter the various middle and
higher government schools throughout tho
empire. Every ono of these would well
come such one to teach English. Then
by his influence and by personal work,
which after all Is what counts for most,
he could do untold good In shaping Chris
tian character among the students, Japan
ESQ respect teachers, ana especially for
eign teachers: and such men would have
more weight than those whose business 1T
Is to como out and try to mako Chris
tans,''
This man had In mind something even
further advanced than the work Of tho
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of the population of school age as I'M
der instruction IAN American educator
here figures 1t OF 69.O5 per cent. accord
ing to western reckoning), there is not
room in the institutions OF higher grade
for all tho applicants. Japan has only
eight colleges and two universities, but
each of these has a very large enroll
ment.
I heard the other day of 1900 students
being examined for entrance into class
that could admit but 20. The rejected
students feel dsgraced, and this Is one
cause OF the suicides that are so common
among this class of the Japanese.
1t is freely stated that much of the
modern education is quite superficial. Ger
tainly the students prove a fertile field
for the exploitation of socialists and
other agitators. There are not places
In the nation for these educated young
men commensurate with their ambitions.
So there Is considerable political as we'll
as social unrest,
All Japan Eager to Learn English
One striking result of the craze for
education is the universal desire to learn
English. which is regarded as the Ian
guage OF progress and civilization. There
is no similar zest for French or German,
The higher public schools teach En-
glish. and tens of thousands are learn
ing it privately. Train boys, railroad
men. walters. shopkeepers, editors stu
dents, fellow passengers In trains-all
sorts of Japanese have come to me since
have been here for help In English
Any good-natured foreigner could keep
busiy employed twenty-four hours day
instructing the Japanese in the mystic
Sries of English. Recently visited mis-
sion night school in Kobe which was
literally jammed with young men en-
ployed during the day as teachers, clerks
etc. Not only were the rooms crowded.
but outside of the doors and windows
stood clumps of eager students, each
having paid the tuition fee. The mission
force was inadequate, and two outside
HELPERS, Englishmen. had been engaged
temporarily 1t was highly edifying ia
hear an enthusiastic young man teach
his class as model sentences, There are
many dogs in England. have got a
dog. 1t Is only fair to the missionary
force to say that they themselves are
college-bred men and women.
BY the way, / have been surprised to
find that the educated Japanese are In
terested in tho reform spelling OF Epglish
and eager for Its adoption. They speak
fcellngly of the Inconsistencies and incom-
RESPONSIBILITIES of our photography. Allied
to this widespread interest In English
should be mentioned the desire of Japan
csc men to go to America have talked
with scores. ranging from boys to col
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Thousands of Chinese Stu-
dents, With More Money
Than Morals, Compli-
cate the Situation.

student boarding houses. the latter espe-
cially. 1t has been shown that hundreds,
II not thousands, of girl students purchase
their education at price that would
seem Incredible to Western ears, For in-
stance, 1t Is admitted that nearly all OF
the 1900 Chinese students here afford
homes to Japanese girl students or pseudo
students. The Chinese students-,nost OF
whom, by the way, have wives at homes
are not necessarily more immoral than
the Japanese. but they are possessed OF
more money. The average expenses of q
Japanese college man, Including tuition.
board. books. clothes, etc. are less than
are estimated at minimum OF
Is yen month. which is $3.50.
The average expenses of a Chinese stu
dent In Toxic are estimated at minis
mum of 50 yen. The expenses Of
q girl student are less than those OF q
man.
In tho light OF the foregoing, 1t is
seen that one of the tremendous tasks
undertaken by the missionaries, and es-
peoially through the girls schools, Is
the creation of the Anglo-Saxon concep-
ton of morality in the Japanese mind.
A missionary is also chiefly responsible
for the agitation which resulted In the
law n few years since giving the en-
raeved girls q loop hole of escape from
the life, under certain difficult conditions.
A rescue homo Is maintained in Toxic
by the missionaries and the w. c, T. IL.
and three others throughout the Empire
by the Salvation Army. The most tangi-
Bile and promising efforts for the better
ment of moral conditions among the vtll-
dents are those put forth by distlnct'pely
missionary agencies.
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lege presidents, whose supreme ambition
apparently is to cross the Pacific.
In this connection come in the mission
schools. They have higher percentage
of foreigners among their teachers than
the government schools; and, besides, they
are generally willing to teach English
to anybody who will study the Bible
along with it.
Leading Nation to School.
It was the missionaries who introduced
higher education into Japan. One Of
them, DR.. David Murray. was the govern
ment's educational adviser, and led in
the organization of the present schos ,
system. The first of the Japanese insti-
tutions of higher learning was the Do
shisha, founded by the runaway youth.
Joseph Hardy Neesima, who was trained
in a home, and Is now esteemed by the
nation as one of its great men. The
Doshisha, which Is located at ISioto, is
the most famous OF mission schools in
this country. and it is still doing success
full work, with about 900 students. The
average age of the latter is lower than
formerly, as seems to be the case with
all long-estabished mission schools
The Doshlsha has passed through dra-
matte experiences. Established In 1873,
with American board money, by Neeslma,
who was actuated by only Christian mo-
tives, the school became a centre OF
great religious influence in Japan.
Then. after Neesima's death, the wave
of nationallstic and railroads.&c. reaction
swept over the country and the Chris
tian features We're eliminated from the
constitution. The property had been in
the legal control of the Japanese, al
though really this was meant to be but
nominal, in order to conform to Jnpa-
nese law. When the anti-foreign re-
vulson came the Japanese trustees ex-
ercised their legal functions and completes
ly divorced the Doshisha from It's orig
lnal mission. Trying months followed.
But Rev. DIR. j. ID. Davis. who has been
In Japan thirty-iive years, and was q
co-founder with Neeslma OF tho Doshi-
sha, and one of tho great smen of the
Christian mission force here, led strug-
gle for restoration of tho old ideals
that was finally successful During this
time the Doshisha ran down considerably,
but now 1t Is again filling great place
In the educational work OF Japan. Like
practically all the other mission schools,
1t has Japanese management, but Dr..
Davis remains the dominant personality,
Must Mission Schools Go?
The intensely national spirit among the
Japanese, together With the creation OF
the new educational system, has largely
altered the status and character OF the
mission schools
Whatever changes tho future brings
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Pace r. Face With the Moors.
THE PROBLEM OF STUDENT TMMORALITY IN JAPA7

Young Mems Christian Association
teachers The latter are men selected
by the international Y. M. Z. A., WITH
.headouarters in New York. These men
receive no mission aid Whatever tley
have an absolutely independent relation
with the government and are supported
entirely by their salaries. But Dy Nieiiis
of Bible classes, personal conversation,
the introduction of the students INTO
their homes to learn foreign ways anu
the creation of foreign literature, they
are doing an unreasonable service 10:
Christianity. Japan is eager to increase
the number of these men, and, as one
Of the teachers said to mo, There Is no
better place in the world for a quahted
American who wants to do q great edu-
cational work than right here.
The Japanese who 1 quoted above had
a larger thought than ever this. he
would like to see foreign teachers sent
even to the government schools that
cannot afford to pay their salaries IN
full, the latter coming from mission
boards at home Thus one teacher could
serve several schools, and create Glen
tele for Christian work which he would
be in a position to utilize to the utmost
advantage.
This of course, would be something
new in Christian propaganda; but | am
persuaded that in this general direction
lies the future field for foreign mission
work in japan. The foreign preacher
will go; the foreign manager of church
work will so: the foreign medical mis-
sionary has practically gone already; but
in their place will como the foreign Chris
tan teacher and the trained executive for
philanthropic and eleemosonary enter
prises.
Student immortality.
The whole student problem IN Japan
must DO viewed from a moral SIDE. While
morals and ethics have a place in the cur
ricula OF all higher schools they nave not
an equal place in the conduct OF the young
people whom they are supposed to AFFECT.
The minister OF education and other ma
tional leaders are frankly alarmed over
Che situation, and they have turned to
the Young Mons Christian Association for
help. The latter with the Young Wo-
mems Christian Association, Is erecting
self-supporting dormitories where many
have safa homes. Statesmen who are
themselves alTant nationalists declare
that the students must have some re-
iigious motive for the desired morality,
Even the daily papers are wrestling with
the subject of student immorality--a con-
tratlleton OF the statement made by some
leaders that the recent shocking reNela-
lions have not caused a. ripple of in
terest In Japan. The immortality has
centred !arsely about the dormitories and
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hammedans OF Morocco think that their
Sultan is far superior to any other, and
they say that heals the only ono that
has the blood of the prophet IN him.
They will not allow the Turkish Sultan
to have representative here and they
recognize him neither relgiously nor po-
litically. They revere their own monarch
only because he comes of the family of
Mohammed. and for that reason he can
give them q blessing. II this We're not
so he would be dethroned tomorrow,
and. as it is. they dislike him because he
Is favorng the Europeans and modern
improvements. This feeling is even
stronger in the wild tribes of the noun
tains than among the people of the city
The Berbers as well as the Moors want
to get rid of the Christians. and they
would be glad to have them ousted at
once and forever.
In the Mohamnnedan Schools.
This country was once amongst the
most advanced of the world along edu-
cationa lines. Centuries ago its unlver-
stiles were noted all over Europe. To-
day there is none more backward. The
children study. but they devote their
days TO committing texts from the ho-
ran. The little ones sit on the floor
cross legged in their gowns with their
bare feet under them. and sway pack ana
forth as they sing out the holy words
of the Mohammedan Bible
The teacher is a Moor in q turban and
a gown. He also sits cross-legged
he has long sticy in his hand,
and the boy who refuses to shout gets
cut. This I saw in a school opposite the
hotel to-day.
These little Arabs learn to write the
Koran in Arabic. They use wooden states
of about the size of a washboard Inc
slate is first busted with white pow
der. and the characters are painted upon
it with brushes in an Ink which can
ba washed away. The main study IN the
University of Fee is the Koran, ana az
vanoed students devote themselves to 40
ranic law.
Face to Face With the Moors.
almost despair of bringing you lace
to face with these Moors. They are UNI
like any Africans we have in America
they are tall. straight, big-boned ara
broad shouldered, and they walk with
grace and dignity not found IN OUT
land. They wear long white gowns VIII
hoods at the back. These hoods are OF,
Ten pulled up over their turbans' ana
make them look taller. The men are all
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Evils That Centre. in Tokio's
Student Quarter Give Con
Germ to the Nations
Leaders.
Leaders,.
az WILLIAM T. ELLIS.

.tcopyright 1907. by Joseph b. Bowles)
T oksO, JAPAN.-Tolio is nest
of problems. Here the Far East
i ern Question" has It's focus. And
an Investigator finds that 1t Is by
no means one abstract question, but an
interviewer mass Of perpexities, each
with relation to the other. Out of the
whole I have tried to extricate the two
that appear to be undamental-educa-
ton and morality; and both have
direct bearing upon the missionary and
religious situation which I am study
ing.
Toxic Is the greatest student centre
In the world with more than $4,000 stu
dents of the higher branches. Here
young Japan, infatuated with the west
err learning, has concentrated Its am
bitions. The streets TEEN With young
men and women students. The process
sion of these that may be seen any day
along the moat by the imperial palace
is the most significant spectacle in all
Japan. 1t Is the crux OF the nations
anXietles: i do not wonder that the elder
statesmen are shaking their heads ana
looking grave over 1t; for reasons when
7 shall presently show.
i The Greatest Sight in Japan.
The procession itself is picturesque.
,yrhe girls all wear the ungraceful student
dress. which consists of Il Japanese kimo-
no tucked into red or purple skirt.
The girls never wear hats, and usually
their feet are encased in high wooden
clogs known as "geta." Their books are
wrapped in cloth and their little ink
.hottles hang suspended from strings.
The male students wear a diversity of
dress, frequently an European uniform.
from cap to shoes, and often an adapta-
ton of the ancient scholars dress
kimono above. with nm undershirt in
fun view Of the throat. and a sort of
divided skirt Or boomers, very full, for
trousers. These usually wear straw hats
and clogs, and In many cases carry
canes. Tho richer ones affect dandifled
European dress, and are called thigh coll
lars by their fellows.
So great is the craze for education that,
although the rather loose figures of tho
Japanese government give 944a per cent.
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" AM In the wild and turbulent land OF
Morocco-a country which contains
ten million Mohammedans and six
Il thousand Christians. Five thou
sand of the Christians live here in
Tangier. but there are ten Mohammedans
TO every one OF them, and the man who
would laugh or sheer ut the prophet in q
public place would be in danger of death.
The town IS surrounded by walls and
guarded by soldiers. The country out
side is filed with bandits and brigands.
Runors OF a holy war against the Chris
tians are now current; and 1t is said
that in the oasis OF Tablet. from where
the family Of the Sultan comes, the troops
are preparing TO invade Algeria and
slaughter the French.
The Algeclras conference, so far from
getting things. has stirred up the peo-
pie. and the force of twenty-five hum
bred policemen under foreign officers,
which it provided for the eight ports
OF Morocco. is inefficient There is al
ready trouble at many OF the ports. Since
] landed one of the mountain tribes has
besieged Mogador. on the Atlantic, and
has assaulted tine French Jews there. a
reign OF terror exists in Merrakech. the
southern capital of the Sultan, and His
Majesty cannot control any part OF his
dominions outside of Fee.
The Brigands of the North.
Right here in Tangier. within a short
distance of the fortifications Of Gibraltar.
and Just over the way from Spain and
South France. the country is full of wild
and warning tribes. the most OF whom
ere fast losing their fear Of the foreigner.
AS write this II is impossible to go
five miles east of the city without sol
diers to guard one. The Bcrbers of that
region are up in arms. The governor OF
Tangier refuses 10 take any risks. and he
Will not send an escort of soldiers with
me to the town of Tetuan, which is Cflly
two days away. can look out of my
hotel window and see the villa of Walter
i. Harris. the London Times correspon-
dent. which is situated near here on the
shore. Ii is not more than an hours walk
from where am writing. but its owner
does not dare to remain in 1t over night
for fear that he may be kidnapped and
taken off into the mountains and he'd
there for ransom as was Perdicaris. Mr..
Harris himself has already been cap
tured. and it was only the fear OF the
English gunboats that brought about his
liberation He was taken by Raisuh some
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called at the military headquarters and
had asked the commander if 1t would be
safe for me to go through the Moro VII
lagos. Colonel Petit replied:
II think so, my boy. but 1 would adj
wise you to first tie your head on with q
string"
1t is about the same here. one Is safe
enough If he does not get into the wrong
combination; and there are plenty of
wrong ones These Mohammedans are
more fanatical than our Moros. They
call all Christians dogs. and the ordinary
Moor does not want that species of the
human canine In his church, his school
or his home. Foreigners dare not enter
the mosques of Morocco. Frenchman
tried it at Fee not long ago, and was
shot at the door.
1t is against the law of the Koran to
have ones picture taken, and find It
dangerous to use the camera These Mo-
hammedans scowl whenever they see one
pointed at them. and many of them would
fight rather than be photographed. Just
Yesterday, for instance. my son Jack, a
husky young fellow OF twenty-one. who
Is making this trip with me, tried to en-
ter n fondak. or Mahommedan hotel and
stable combined. The place was near the
market He had his camera open at the
time There was a crowd of Mohamme-
dams within, largely made UP OF men
from the interior.
They caught sight of the camera and
thought he intended to take their pho
tographs They rose in a body and jump
ed for him, and our dragoman, Hadj
Mohalnmed. Both fought them back with
their sticks. and after a time we made
our way off.
A Religious War.
NJ,
iiammedans for number of months. At
ter leaving here / shall be with them
in Algeria and in Tunisia, There are
only Mohammedans in Tripoli, and in
the British Soudan / shall be In the
land of the Mahdi. wtlosee troops fought
the English so bravely some years ago.
understand that there is an unsettled
feeling, just now. in the whole Moham-
nedan world: and that MANY of their
saints are advocating the inauguration OF
holy war. This Is so not only IN
Morocco. but also in Egypt and In Ara
bia, and, if 1t occurs it will make the
lives OF Christians everywhere unsafe.
AT the present time, of all the people
in the world, more than eleven per cent.
are Mohamnedans, and there are just
about one third as many Mohammedans
all told as there are Christians. Chris
tians number little over five hundred
millions, and the Mohammedans more
than one hundred and seventy-five mil
lions In such a war the Mohammedans
would fight to the death, and they would
rather welcome martyrdom, as to be
killed killing Christians would give them
top seats in the gallery of heaven and a
choice pick of the beautiful madens who
are supplied for every one of the faith
full upon his entrance into paradise.
No+ Safo to R,ck
These Moors are like no Mohammedans