The Hawaiian gazette., 1912-07-26
AMERICA WOULD HAVE TO FORCE A War

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land. who expressed the greatest regret
that an health prevented his attending |
the conference. ought to say that
the endowment is prepared to pay each
person invited who attends his expenses
and an honorarnm, provided he writes
ont his own impressions Of the confer
ence for the trustees,
Education Cure.
"The third line Of study and activ
ity on the part of the trustees is the
! one which / have been instructed to
4 stndy in the East, The. title of this
third division Of the trustees work is
education and international intercourse.
The trustees believe that it is going
TO be possible in some long lapse of
time to improve public sentiment and
public opinion the world over about
war, about its consequences and its
evils-its long.enduring evils, its bar
barities, it's shocking, hellish eondi-
tions. That is to be one branch of this
third division of their work.
"The other is international inter
course, and have been inquiring in
lChina and Japan as to what trustees
can do TO promote the education of
nublie opinion on this subject and also
to promote friendly and mutually add
vantageous intercourse between the
East and the West.
| nNow the term international inter
{ course may h taken to indicate va
riety of things. international inter
course is promoted whenever the liter
ature of one nation is made accessible
{ ! to another For instance, Russia has
/. been within the last fifty years made
{ much better known to the rest of the
1 world than il ever was before through
+ the new literature of Russia itself,
. Through the great noveists that have
n sprung up, through Russian fiction and
s Russian poetry that has gone over the
s world, with the result that the ideals
, of the Russian people are very much
better known to the rest of the world
!. than ever before. Consequently, one of
Q the requests that ] am carrying home
TO the trustees from China is memo
rial signed by considerable number
of Chinese statesmen, merchants and
) educators, asking the trustees to estab-
y lish in Picking a free library OF the
II American sort, to be devoted to the
= American and European literature on
y the great subjects with which education
g is concerned and particularly education
t, in the applied sciences This library
II which they would have established il
u Picking, will be supplied with all the
y best books on such subjects as agricul
ture, finance, cooperation in industries
~ capital and labor, taxation and public
~ revenue-all subjects which touch the
: industrial and commercial life of th'
II nation and those which touch the gov
10 ernmental policy and objects, such, TO
instance, as taxation, the procuring o
stable revenue. This memorial | my
o. self believe to be very persuasive AM
IN influential document. 1t aims to in
n creased international intercourse be
r. tween China and America and all othe
C. nations through the books on the sub
ne iects which have mentioned.
#. Carnegie Gift Liberal.
or 81 indicate thus briefly the mean
y. of romoting intercourse between tn
ne nations which the trustees may reason
ry ably contemplate and consider and fiji
,e- ally adopt with the limitations whie
We the amound of their income may in
ne pose. That income is considerable. M
p Carnegie gave those trustees ten mi
re, lion dollars and it is all investe
en- so it earns an income of five pc
m cent or five hundred thousand dollar
ct annually, and that sum of money wi
ge 90 far in the study of the three larg
divisions which / have already mel
Gu toned and in part defined.
ed Not Idealists.
in "'You will observe that the truste,
er- are proposing to take up lines of actic
re- from which no immediate result ca
ks reasonably be expected. AS Governr
. Frear said, we are not looking for q
= immediate coming of reign of pea
all over the earth. Far from it. l b
lieve there is not single member
this board of trustees who calls hir
self or who would be called by othe
peace man. | have never belong'
to any peace society. Some persons WI
II know me pretty well would smile if
were called a peace man, and yet Il
entire board is absolutely resolved
do everything in their power to promo
the gradual, slow-comihg of the reii
of peace-not thinking that it is
come soon. / believe that there is IL
single member of the board who wou
advise Germany, for example, to redu
its army, and l am sure there is not
member of the board who would a
wise Japan to reduce its navy.
Ill Now, is this q consistent frame
I'll mindg That was one of the things tn
was charged to look into in the Ea!
was charged 10 ascertain, if possib
why these great ornaments on la
and sea alike are maintained by j
lpan. The problem is an extremely sil
pie one. The first Japanese statesm
that met spoke very frankly on t
subject, and as ! was of the same OPT
ion before, was glad 30 hear him {
press it.
Japan's Position.
Japan is in the position of Gre
| Britain Japan on the Pacific, Gre
Britain on the Atlantic; insular powe
insular populations in large numb
III Neither nation produces its own TO
1 supply. Both import consderal
proportion of their foods. Great b
tain by far the larger proportion,
course. Great Britain does not ha
any stock on hand At any one time I
more than six weeks supply Of 70
for its population, absolutely depende