The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-21
CHINESE HATE US
Newspaper Man Says China Will
Expel Whites.
Greatest Menace to America
Lies in the Orient.
MUST BE CHANGED.
Hope Lies in Christianity, Says
MIR. Ellis.
Otherwise Oriental Barbarism
May Injure America.

Topeka churches have decided to
raise $4,000 for foreign missions the
coming year. Heretofore they have
given less han $1,000.
This decision was made by a gather
ing of one hundred representative lay
men from the various churches of the
city at a gathering at the Y. NJ. G. A.
building Saturday evening, at a dinner
given in honor of representatives of
the Laymen's Missionary Movement of
the country, and an executive commit
tee, made up OF one man from each
church, has been organized to carry
out the decision.
Unlike most missionary meetings.,
the dinner In Gemmell hall Saturday
evening was not a preachers meeting.
1t was a business mems affair,
and it dealt in facts and
figures. The chief speakers were
j. Campbell White, a New York
layman, who has spent several years In
Calcutta, and William 7. Ellis, a Phtla-
delphia newspaper man.
DR.. NJ. D. Eubank, a medical mission
airy from China, spoke briefly;
The chief interest centered arouno
the story told by Mr.. Ellis, who last
year circumnavigated the globe as "a
newspaper correspondent representing
a syndicate of daily newspapers to find
u III L L
Orient and especially about missions.
1.-The impression prevails amons
business men," said Mr.. Ellis, that
the missionary movement is more or
less of a pose-almost a graft. and IL
was my commission to find out the
truth about it. If / found a granting
missionary l was to say SO, n l was
to discover If this missionary business
really pays"
Mr.. Ellis saw things with the broad
vision of a trained newspaper CORE
spondent. He Travelled $4,000 miles,
spending eight months in Japan, Korea
and China, and interviewing all sorts
and classes of people, including the
statesmen of those nations. AS a re-
suit he is now telling American peopie
that the great problem of America IN
protection against the millions of vel
low men of the Far East, and he De
lieves that Chr~istianizing them alone
will solve the problem. He belleVes
that if China proceeds with It's present
and in it's present state of
mind, the next generation of white men
in America will come IN disastrous
contact with the yellow Peril.
'"There is something doing In the
world today" said Mr.. Ellis. The
present movement against graft ana
for greater justice in America has It's
counterpart in some form, saws MT
nations are stirring themselves; g
is on the verge of a revolution: even
Persia has just passed under a constl-
~tutional form of government; morocco
and Russia the world knows a little
about; tremendous vents are happen
ing in Japan and Korea; India is on
the brink of a great
knows just what, while there mas
more happened in China in the last
five years than in the three Thousand
years preceding.
China, said Mr.. Ellis, is committed
to the western learning. 1t is bound
to know all that the Anglo-SaXon
knows and much more besides. That
is what China is aiming at, and When
succeeds, with it's tremendous popu-
lation, the results will be portentous TO
America if it remains in its present
heather state of mind.
..The ~Chinaman," continued Mr..
Ellis. "hates the white man and it is
purpose to drive the white man
from the Orient just as soon as ne gets
the power he is acquiring. And I say
he has reason for his hatred. If 1
were a Chinaman 1 would do the
same, for the actions of the white
in China have no counterpart In
the world anywhere save IN that OF
Leopold on the Congo"
Mr.. Ellis said that much that he
was indescribable and imprint
able. The barbarities and cruelties of
Chinese hat he described as hav-
ing himself seen were such as to
the average mans blood boil
with Indignation that such things
be among human beings. China
is our neighbor, and it is up to Amer
lea to look out. Yet wherever Chris
has touched the Orient, Mr.
Ellis asserts, heather life is being
made over and its sentiments are
changed. and for that reason he be-
Iieves that the future protection Of
lies in the Christianizing of
Orient.
Mr.. White, who is general secretary
Of the Laymen's Missionary Move
ment, gave figures concerning what is
being done and what is necessary to
done to ~evangelize the world-not
10 convert it. but simply to tell it
bout Christianity.
The Laymen's Missionary Move
ment had its start in New York a little
.ess than a year ago, when some bust
hess men from different churches be-
gan to figure on the necessity and the
possibility of C~hristianizing the health
IN world in the present generation-I
% years. At present some
hing over p million dollars is given
year by the civilized world for
This seems like a great
mount. but counting one missionary
or every $4,000 people-or n man
his wife in a city larger thai To-
amount reaches only 1926
leaving SIS million heather
Who can never even hear of Chris
before they die. 1t would take
hundred years at the present rate to
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