The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-06-01
University Notes

be successful or unsuccessful" He
showed how no nation could long eX-
list, II divided into classes of rich and
poor, with an ever widening gulf be-
tween them. This he proved by the
history of the past. Russia today"
he said, cannot support both the
peasant and the parasite. Her ma
tional eXistance will necessitate an en-
tire reconstruction"
The danger to this country lay in
the concentration of wealth. "One
man has gotten together enough
wealth in a short life time to pur-
chase this entire state" The rich
class, he showed, cannot appreciate
the dignity of labor; and are thus
ever inclined to scoff at the poor
workman. However, there is hope in
sight. The newer craftsmanship is
giving heed to the cry of the masses.
The poor are being llonored as never
before. Our sister commonwealth
a boy, carried washing for his mother.
a boy. carried washing TO rhis mother.
All signs give promise of a brighter
tomorrow"
Mr.. OConnor's delivery was was ex-
cellent. and easily gave him first place;
but his rank in that and composition
was law.
Successful Grafton.
Mr. Warren spoke as follows:
Many years the men Of America
have watched the March of Empire"
in its ever-westward path. AS we
followed its course. our intense pa
triotism led us to ignore what lay
beyond. We considered the Golden
Gate the limit of this great movement.
We thought of China: in the old days
that mystical, magnificent Cathay;
and proudly We said, The man of the
East was the beginning. but we of the
West are the elimination. Behold,
this mighty march has circled the
world. America is its goal"
But at the dawning of new CEN
fury the conviction is slowly being
forced upon US that the Star of En-
pire" is not as we had considered it.
Like the stars in the armament above,
it knows no hating in its course, but
steadily, resistessly. swings in its I'M
ending circle. Past the barriers of
the Golden Gate; out across the wide
Pacific; its light has travelled on till
it has awakened the men of Japan
and is casting it's first CLEANS on the
turreted palaces at Picking.
In the path of its radiance Ameri-
can eyes are opening to a new prob
lem. Some national mistakes are
standing out in remorseless prOmi-
hence. We are beginning to see that
We have not sufficiently needed the
signs of the times. True, while it
suited our hospitable convenience We
royalty entertained the peace ambas-
sailors of Japan-and won the plaud-
its of the world. But after the lime
light was turned away. what cared We
for the men of the Far East? One of
our states proceeded to heap affront
upon the children of Japan. We made
more strict our bar to the yellow man.
With twenty millions starving in Chi
ma, We continued to exact unjust pay
ments on an unjust indemnity. We
continued our insults to Chinese
scholars who sought admission to
America. We permitted a state to
rise in her sovereign might and wrest
even property rights from the men of
the Far East. By our cool careless
ness of Far Eastern feeling we con-
tinually send the taunt across the Pa
cific: What are YOU going to do about
1t? Yes, what do you intend to do?
You are weak, and we are strong; you
are poor. and We are rich; what
recks your right against our might?
No answering defiance has been
flung back. Hence we have felt we
were dealing with a decadent race.
We have counted the Oriental no more
than half man. And here has been
our mistake. For among the Man
churian hills the japanese proved
himself before all the world every
inch man. From the plains of Chi
ma, low, insistent, more and more
clear, is coming the answering voice
OF his brother asking for Justice by
right OF the man he is, pleading for
brotherhood by virtue of the mighty
force he will become. And today we
are confronted with the stern duty of
correcting our error, and recognizing
that we are dealing with men, mil
lions OF awakening men, who deserve
all the justice and rights of brother
mood that characterize American lib
erty.
We have underestimated the Mon
golian intellect. Because Pacific
coast coolies were universally ignor-
ant, we have supposed the Chinaman
universally ignorant. Yet the very
foundation of China's political system
is on an educational basis that puts
to shame the meager qualifications we
ask of our officials. The Chinese Man.
DARN u a scholar, having stored in
his capacious memory Chinese law
and the lore of Celestial prophets to
a. degree that is startling to the Oc-
cldental mind. He does not lack men
tai power; he lacks only modern
training. HE sits in his ancestral
halls with his head in the realms of
the ancient Sung dynasty and his feet
upon the present"
Will he sit thus forever? Will there
be no awakening? Truly the peace of
the world were safer if he should
dream on, in his intellectual cloud
land! For when he becomes willing
to study the coal fields of Honan, in
stead of musing on the Towering fields
through which Confucius walked;
when he begins to consider building
factories and shelters in Tongking. in
stead of rebuilding in fancy that an
cient paradise where Mencius taught:
in short. when the Chinese Mandarin
and Literatus begins to think in mod
ern terms instead of prehistoric, there
VIII De born on earth a mighty in
tellectual force. A new power will
threaten the nations with turmoil. The
destiny of Asia will lie in the hollow
of her hand. She will make and un-
make the economic future of the Far
East.
The yellow man has other ominous