The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-17


England by Hindus in speaking of the
leading nations of the world, but India
is beginning TO see in Japan's rapid rise
the hope of like advance for herself
and is using every means at hand to i'm
bibe the spirit and the methods that have
helped japan.
Educational Awakening.
THE week before I left Colombo over a
dozen students passed through there from
several of the smaller towns of CeyIon,
This is representative of the state of
affairs all over the empire of which
Ceyion is only a 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 arrangements there that on his
return Ceylon-Japanese trading com
pany was Immediately formed, with a
very large capital.
only recently, too. a large firm in Co.
lomoo, II. Don CAROLS & Sons. furni-
ture dealers, have set out to offer an an
nuai scholarship to a young Cingalese "a
native tribe Of Ceylon) for some tech
meal course IN a Japanese university.
and study of the furniture industry of
that country. The whole spirit of what
is called the great awakening of India
Is to get something technical and Japan
Is To-Day the place the progressive young
this - III
81, Student life in Japan is much cheaper
than in either England or America. / be-
IieVe young man can get an education
mere at about one-half the cost of one
IN England, and about one-third of what
IL would cost him in this country. RIIf
IN ADDITION TO this the natives of India
aeeI that II Japan which they have al
ways considered intellectually inferior.
can advance so rapidly in every way.
lnqla can do the same thing. In NV
opinion the Hindus are as a race about
on par with japan in moral charac-
ter, while intellectually I believe we
would be considered, even by foreigners.
as superior .
"A great many of the leading men of
SSpItn nave peen Iecturing in all parts
OF India during the last two years es-
Peclally within the last twelve months.
theSe men go on to tell about how their
naton has arisen and what a high posi-
uon she now occupies in the commercial
ana industrial world. and they intimate
tnat that is what India can and ought to
no. 1hey are very smart They do not
compromise themselves. but all the edu-
cated men of India can see that every
one or these lectures is delivered for =
purpose These men lay great stress upon
the ties which bind India to Japan and
every day these ties are becoming strong
er. Just lately, within the last fifteen
months, In fact the professor of mill
osophy in Madras university DR.. Samuel
Sattinadhan, who exerted very strong
influence In that part of India, died while
DIR. Sattinadhan has been in America
and had lectured at Harvard and Prince
ton, and was returning by way of Jap9n
70 see for himself what the condition was
there. Just before he died he wrote sew
eTal letters to Madras. pointing out what
a wide opening there was in Japan for all
classes of Hindus. These letters were
printed in the papers all over India His
large influence in India and the fact that
he died in Japan, surrounded by Japanese
almost a adx
Hindus to profit by the example of ia
pan, cannot but act as strong tie be-
tween the two countries"
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 con-
ference, too, one of the principal speakers
devoted large part of his time to the
subject of Japanese agriculture. One of
the sentences of his address is significant.
AS Japan and everything Japanese is
Just now attracting the widest and deep
est attention in India, let us see what
forms the new agriculture has taken
there"
Another speaker at the Indian national
congress. hel din Calcutta last Decem-
Der, said; While China is awakening
and Japan is already awakened and Rus
STA is struggling for emancipation, can
the free citizens Of the British Indian en-
pire continue TO remain subject to des-
potism?" And still another speaker-R.
C. Dutt, c. l. E. the prime minister of
the Gaekwar of BarOda. one of the large
native kingdoms-goes on to tell how his
rules mas sent during the last two wears
young students to Japan "at state ex-
pense," adding that his audience would
see by that that the ruler of Baroda Is
mot the least earnest and patriotic among
the many earnest and patriotic men who
are devoting themselves today to foster
and revive the industries of India"
Rich Zerminars, the petty land chiefs.
and some of the enterpTising Parsees. who
compose a small. progressive community
In India, especially around Bombay, ac
cording to Mr.. Rutman, are sending stu
dents to Japan to study its manufac-
lures. All this has come about since
the Russo-Japanese war. The local Young
Mems Christian association at Ceylon sent
a young Ceylonese 10 Japan TO study, and
when he came back. Mr. Rutman says.
he told his Ceylonese friends that 1.-The
regeneration of Ceylon could never be
complete until Japan had done her work
in Ceyloa."
II myself look upon this increase of
japanese influence in India with any
thing built pleasure" said Mr.. Rutnan.
IN fact have prepared a lecture to de-
liver either here or in England on the
subject of Japan as menace to the peace
of the world. India has much to learn
oDment OF Japan, but we in India look