Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-12
JAPAN LEADING EAST
India Sending Students There
Instead of to OCCident.
INFLUENCE is WIDESPREAD
President Of Ceylon College Tells of
Late Wars Results.
JAPANESE LECTURE IN INDIA
Tells Hindus How Nippon Has Arisen
to Glory and Suggest Similar
Awakening.
JAPANESE LECTURE IN INDIA

| One of the most striking features of the
| present unrest in India is the widespread
| influence Japan is beginning to WELD
throughout the entire empire, according, to
S. C. X Rutman, the president Of a college
| in Colombo, Ceylon. and native high
caste Hindu. He says that since the Russo
| Japanese war there has been a great ex-
odus Of young Hindu students to Japan.
Not only have many who would otherwise
| have gone to England turned to Japan for
| their instruction. but within the last eight
| cen months native governments and private
| commercial houses even have begun to Of
| fer annual scholarships for the study of
| technology and science at The leading uni
versities of the mikado's kingdom.
| Mr.. Rutman, who is native of Jaffna,
| Ceylon, is a graduate Of Princeton Univer-
| sity, well of the University of
Madras. While visiting in England in
| 1894 he met the late Frances E. Willard.
| and. acting her advice, he came to
America and studied for three years at
Princeton, devoting himself especially to
philosophy. In 1896 he took the degree of
master of arts there, and the next year re-
| turned to India and started a boys school
| in Colombo. This school has since grown
| into a college with more than 200 students.
He is its president
| you little realize what the late Russo
Japanese war has done to increase Japa-
nese influence throughout the east Mr.
Rutman told a New York Tribune reporter
recently Before that war we no more
| thought OF sending students to Japan than
| to China or Burma Now all that is
changed Not only is Japan always men
| toned along with America and England
tons Of the world. but India is beginning
| to see In Japans rapid rise the hope of d
| like advance for herself and Is using every
| means at hand to imbibe the spirit and the
| nod hat how haty To
Educational Awakening.
1.-The week before I left Colombo over a
| dozen students passed through there from
several Of the smaller towns Of Ceylon,
| on their way to Japan to study in Toxic.
| This is representative Of the state Of affairs
all over the empire Of which Ceylon is only
| very small part. India is beginning to
import a great many goods from Japan
which she formerly got from America or
| England. Within the last twelve months
| one of the citizens Of Colombo went to
| Japan and made such favorable arrange
ments there that on his return a Ceylon-
| Japanese trading company was Immediate
| ly formed. with very large capital.
only recently, too, a large firm in Co
| lombc, H. Don CAROLS & Sons, furniture
| dealers, have set out to offer an annual
| tribe of Ceylon) for some technical course
| in Japanese university. and study of the
furniture industry in that country. The
awakening of India is to get something
| technical. and japan is today the place
the progressive young men among the Hin
| dus are looking to for this.
Student life in Japan Is much cheaper
| than in either England or America. l be-
| leve young man can get an education
there at about one-half the cost OF one in
would cost him in this country. But in ad-
dition to this the natives Of India feel that
| If Japan, which they have always consid-
cred intellectually inferior. can advance
so rapidly in every way. India can do the
same thing. In my opinion the Hindus
are as a race about on a par with Japan
| in moral character. while intellectually
believe we would be considered, even by
foreigners, as superior
"a great many Of the leading men Of
Japan have been lecturing in all parts Of
India during the last two years, especially
within the last twelve months. These men
go on to tell about how their nation has
arisen and what a high position she now
occupies in the commercial and Industrial
India can and ought to do. They. are very
smart. They do not compromise them
selves. but all the educated men Of India
can see that every one of these lectures is
delivered for q purpose. These men lay
great stress upon the ties which bind India
to Japan and every day these ties are
becoming stronger. Just lately, within the
last fifteen months. in fact. the professor
Samuel sattinadhan. who exerted a very
strong influence in that part Of India, died
while visiting Toxic.
DR.. sattinadhan had been in America and
had lectured at Harvard and Princeton.
and was returning by way Of Japan to see
for himself what the condition was there.
Just before he died he wrote several let
tiers to Madras. pointing out what wide
opening there was In Japan for all classes
of Hindus. These letters were printed in
the papers all over india His large in
A,,1 to- a1i md ha 70 OF fhot he fn1
in Japan surrounded by Japanese. and with
almost his last breath advising Hindus to
profit by the example of Japan, cannot but
act as a strong tie between the two coun-
tries"
Signs Of the Times.
Mr.. Rutman called the attention of the
reporter to the number Of instances in the
speeches delivered at the annual confer
ences held in India both this last year and
the year before where japan was spoken
Of in the same breath with Europe and
America. At last years industrial confer
ence, too. one OF the principal speakers de-
voted large part Of his time to the sub
ject OF japanese agriculture One Of the
sentences of his address is slgnlflcanti "As
Japan and everything Japanese is just now
attracting the widest and deepest attention
in India, let Us see what forms the new
agriculture has taken there"
Another speaker at the lpdian national
congress, held in Calcutta last DecembeH
said, while China Is awakening. and
Japan is already awakened, and Russia is
struggling for emancipation, can the free
citizens Of the British Indian empire con-
tinue to remain subject to despotism?"
And still another speaker-R. G. Dutt, G. I.
E., the prime minister of the Gaekwar of
Baroda one OF the large native kingdoms
goes on to tell how his ruler has sent dur
Ing the last two years young students to
Japan Sat state expense" adding that his
| audience would see by that that the ruler
| of Baroda Ia mot the least earnest and
| patriotic among the many earnest and pa
| triotic men who are devoting themselves
| today to foster and revive the Industries of
| India"
| Rich Zermindars, the petty land chiefs,
| and some OF the enterprising Parsees. who
| compose q small progressive community
| in India. especially around Bombay, ac-
| cording to Mr.. Rutman, are sending stu
| dents to Japan to study its manufactures.
| All this has come about since the Russo
Japanese war. The local Young Mems
| Christian Association at Ceylon sent
young Ceylonese to Japan to study. and
| when he came back, Mr.. Rutman says, he
| told his Ceylonese friends that the re-
| generation Of Ceylon could never be com
plete until Japan had done her work in
| Ceylon."
II myself look upon this increase of
| Japanese influence in India with anything
| but pleasure" said Mr.. Rutman. In fact