Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-01-30
MORE MONTY FOR
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGES
CONTINUED from Pare u

commercial relations OF the United
States with foreign countries" 1t
proposes that this money shall be
| spent in teaching the most improved
| methods for the extension of foreign
| commerce and for instruction in the
languages most useful for commercial
intercourse with the insular depend
encles of the United States, Latin
America, China, and Japan. And, in
order to develop and encourage the
countries, he proposes that 1.-The
further sum of 500 u year shall be
paid toward the tuition of each stu
| dent from such countries up to the
provided their expenses are not paid
by their own governments" DR..
White thinks that this would induce
large number of young men in the
| and Japan to come to the United
States for their education, who, upon
| returning to their native countries.
| would become permanent missionar-
| ilization and trade. He shows that
Prince Bismarck established such de-
partments in the German universities
with good results, and that the Ger
man Government appropriated large
sums of money for instructing young
men in the languages OF the German
colonies of Africa and the Pacific ISL
ands.
1t is an interesting coincidence
that Representative Mckinley of I'LL
nois should have introduced a bill
with the same spirit and for a similar
| purpose making an annual appropri-
etion Of a similar amount for each of
the Immigrant colleges, to pay for in
struction and for conducting original
researches bearing directly upon the
manufacturing, mining, and engi-
neering industries of the United
States. And everything that can be
said in favor of DR.. Whites propo-
sition applies with equal force to MT.
McKinley's project. DR.. White HIM
self says: 81 earnestly hope Mr.. Nc
Kinley will press his bill, because, II
he can pass It., he will stand in
American history by the side of Sem
ator Morrill, in rendering an meal
culable service to the greatest pro-
ducing industries of the United
States, and indeed to the world. In
no case would the friends of the
measure | have proposed antagonize
that proposition, for Mr.. Mckinley s
bill seems to contemplate what, in
my opinion, would be one of the great
est services ever rendered toward the
advancement of invention relating tc
civil and mechanical engineering
that the country has ever known
There is no doubt that the return
from the outlay would be thousand.
fold and, indeed, much more"
President Roosevelt takes a great
interest in this subject and will rec.
ommend 1t to Congress at the proper
time.
Secretary Root is especially earn.
est in his approval because he be.
lieves DR.. Whites bill will, II passed
he very effective in promoting hif
plans for closer relations between the
United States and the Latin Ameri
can countries. He is equally inter
ested in advancing our commercial
relations with the Orient.
Secretary Taft strongly favors thi,
and every other opportunity that car
, be afforded for the education OF the
Filipinos in American ideas ant
methods.
Secretary Root says that such ap
preparations as are proposed are ever
more clearly within the constitution
al rights Of Congress than the ap
preparations which have so long beer
continued for agricultural education
because the foreign commerce of tn
. country is expressly placed within
1 the care of the National Government
1 by the authors OF the Constitution
In addition, he says:
II heartily approve Of this meas
tire, which looks toward the promo
ton by the general government o
\ education designed to fit our peopl
for carrying on foreign commerce II
very much the same way as the ap
preparations under the so-called Nor
l rill act have been used to promot
education in agriculture. Such edu
4 cation is very much needed to enabl
1 our producers and merchants to cop
with their competitors in foreig
commerce as successfully as the
l should be able to do in view of thei
natural energy and resourcefulnesi
and the substantial merits OF Amer
lean production"
Secretary Strauss, whose depart
ment is to have supervision of tn
project, says: "There is no doub
that a higher commercial educatio