Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-11-19

| anu impression OF an address, but
so far as this can be done, Mr.. Broy-
les talk set forth the facts that the
negro had been a slave for three
hundred years and could not be ex-
pected to become civilized in fifty
years. He had learned all he knew
of the. white man. His good quail
| ties and his bad vices alike had
come to him out of the morals and
often out Of the mingled blood of
the white man. Mr.. Broyles in
stanced cases where the white mans
crime against the black woman was
of the same nature and degree Of
vileness as is often the case between
the black man and the white wom-
an. Under conditions unspeakably
hard to bear the black man is seek
ing an education. What he needs
may be able to work out his saliva
ton with his own hands. Such an
education the schools and mission
aries of the home missionary socie-
ties are giving the negro, and NoXu-
bee Industrial school, although in
| dependent of church control, is in
line with the rest. Mr.. Broyles' des-
cription of hovels-in the vicinity of
the college campus was graphic,
and the audience was stirred to
sympathy. After the close of the
| meeting many persons shook hands
with Mr.. Broyles, and thanked him
for his message.
Rev. Arthur Metcalf of the Con-
gregational church was the last
speaker, and his subject was, "Our
| New Immigrants in the West" For
three hundred years, the speaker
said, the United States has been
marching westward no! We have
followed an elusive frontier, a west
ward line that would not stand long
enough to be photographed. All at
once the frontier has halted. Nay,
it has turned again. The westward
stream of emigration has met an
eastward stream of immigration, it's
face of hope set toward our western
| coast. The United States have as
simulated the people who have come
| in from it's eastern continental out
look; what can be done with the
brown man and the yellow man in
the further west?
Mr.. Metcalf pointed out that
Chinese and japanese immigration
TO the United States had come as a
result of our own initiative. The
| United States Commodore Perry
awoke the sleeping Japanese giant.
Ever since that day the little Japs
have crowded our colleges and uni
versities. They have clamored for
our education, and have put into
practice the main elements of our
civilization: Forthwith they have
become THE Schoolmaster of Asia"
In China, Japanese teachers are in
the schools, japanese drillmasters
are inspiring western spirit in
Chinese troops, and, through the in
fluence of Japan and of Christian
| missionaries from all over the world
| the entire celestial empire has now
become a republic. All this won
| derful and almost miraculous chain
of events has come about because
the United States woke up Japan.
And out Of these conditions had
come the immigration to American
western shores which is being COM
planned of.
What attitude will Christian
America take toward the brown and
the yellow man in the Pacific slope
The Christian church holds the only
solution to this problem. The
Christian ministry is the only quar-
ter where idealism is likely to be
found. Neither the public press nor
the political parties dare preach the
| brotherhood of man when the brown
man and the yellow man are waiting
to cone in! Home missions and the
ideals of the Christian faith are the
only way out of the difficulty.
The meeting tonight will be held
IN the Baptist church and the pro-
gram is to be provided by the Bap-
fist society. The chief feature OF
the program will be stereopticon
lecture by Rev. A. c. Hageman of
| Des Moines on Cuba.
The meeting promises to add. an
increase of interest and inspiration
to the meeting last night. All the
meetings this week will commence
promptly at half-past seven o'clock
and to them the public is heartily
invited.
Horses by Express.
A carload of fine horses passed