The morning journal-courier. (New Haven, Conn.) 1907-1913, 1908-05-30
DIR. MESERVE
TALKS ON WEST
Former New Haven Pastor
Tells of Japs as Threaten
ing Factor in Cali
fornia.
FLEET WAS NECESSARY
Rebuilding Progress I'm Metropolis of
New Western Empire-Leaves
Here for Europe on
June 20.

The Rev. I. c. Meserve, D. D., with
Mrs. Meserve, whom 1t will be re-
membered was before her marriage
Miss Damn, who are visiting with rel
atives and friends in this city, plan
to remain here until June 20 when
them will go to Boston and sail on
the steamship Cymbric for Edinburgh,
where DR.. Meserve goes as delegate
from northern California to the In
ternational council of Congregational
churches, which will be held In that
city July to 10. While In Europe
DR.. Meserve will visit London TO re-
new acquaintance with his friends
and former Pensioners In that city
Late in the summer they will return
to this country and go back to their
home in San Francisco, where DR.
Meserve will resume his duties as pas
tor of the Plymouth Congregational
work.
Although when he left this city
where he was pastor of the Davenport
church Mr.. Meserve did not plan to
make California his permanent home
he has become so thoroughly a Cali
fornian and San Franciscan and so
enthusiastic over the splendid coun-
try there that he has accepted 1t as
his future home and has become a
genuine Californian by feeling as we'll
as residence.
When seen yesterday at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs George H. Leopold
OF 325 Willow street, with whom he
Is at present visiting. DR.. Meserve
spoke very interestingly OF his new
home and the work of building new
empire on the Pacific coast. He pre-
diets a great future for San Francis
co, which he is sure will be the me-
tropolis Of that western empire and
says that among many Of the promi-
nent people of that city the idea is
already we'll rooted that In the near
future their city will be the second
city of the country in population as
well as in resources and business. He
says that there Is every facility for
making the city great and constant
ly growing center of business and
trade and points out that even at the
present time, despite the claims of
other cities Of the coast San Francis
cos bank clearlngs, an index OF trade
conditions, are each week more than
those of all the rest of the Pacific
coast cities combined The city he
declares is one Of great Importance to
the United States on account of its
great and certain future.
DR.. Meserve was very strong in re-
gard to the conditions concerning the
Japanese on the Pacific coast. Only
the coolie class, he says, are gathered
in that place and there Is In San
Francisco very large population OF
this class OF people. Since the Russo
Japanese war they have become very
aggressive and conceited and are
firmly imbued with the belief that
their country can defeat any nation
on the globe. They are aggressive
and entirely unreliable in all their re-
lations, he states, being ever ready
to break any engagements into which
they have entered If 1t appeals tc
them that It will be In their interests
to do so. They are, In the opinion OF
the people Of the coast, a worse class
of people than the Chinese, who have
been excluded by law except under
certain conditions and 1t Is the desire