The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-02-28
HOW IT SEEMS TO
GO AROUND WORLD
Dr.. L. ~ Coon Graphically Describes
His Trip Around the World,
Just Ended.
WAS A MOST DELIGHTFUL TRIP
One Financially Able Should Make
Trip-Information and Interesting
Sights and Customs.
Los Angeles, Cali, Feb. 6, 191

Los Angeles, Cali, Feb. 6, 1912
Editor Review
You have requested me to tell your
readers how it seems to go around the
world. can only tell you in meager
way how it seemed to me, as each in
dividual is a law unto himself, and the
sensations produced in one individual
would not be experienced by another
person of equal mental capacity.
To one having a vivid Imagination
and good memory, liking for his
tory, travel and good working
knowledge OF geography, botany, the
philosophy OF religion, a person who
has been reader, and student of
both men and books, person who
has travelled much in his or her own
country and possessed of sufficient
means to take the trip without finan
cial train, would say to such per-
son by all means take a trip around
the world, if you can go as it was my
fortune to go, with 500 intelligent peo-
pie in my party representing SO states
of our country, and people of five 9TH
er nations. By all means 60 in a
large party and on ship which goes
all the way around, thus avoiding the
worries and dangers incident to any
trim Of en- 1oOer iictoroo
So much for advice. Advice given
gratuitously is seldom counted of value
SO l offer little. The human heart
has been likened unto a harp of a
thousand strings. Granting that, fig
uratively speaking, this is true, think
am not eXaggerating when l tell you
that before your journey is ended
every string will have vibrated, and
every chord will have echoed in har-
mony with the wonderful sights and
sensations OF these strange and inter
esting lands beyond the seas. Your
heart will swell with admiration O;
your country as you travel in lands far
away when you have it impressed up
on you with what justice and un-
selfish generosity and kindness your
country is dealing with it's outlying
colonies.
Again and again as you visit these
colonies and mingle with and converse
with our newly acquired Americans
and hear from their own lips what
great privileges and what great bless
ingS have come to them from our tax
ing over their country you will agree
with me that truly our Colonial Pol
ICY" as some of our yellow journals
wisest and best policy we have ever
entered upon.
Could you have stood with us in tho
great banquet hall in the city of Can
ton China, and listened to the address
of welcome delivered by Chinese
gentleman-a graduate of our Yale
college and heard with your own ears
the eloquent and glowing eulogy on
America, in which he recalled many
instances wherein America had treat
ed China with justice and kindness,
whereas other countries had been UNI
just and tyranical toward them, could
you have heard the hearty and sincere
acclaim for America, our great sister
country across the Pacific" from those
hundreds of Mongolian men, and then
heard the toast we proposed to the
new republic of China, feel sure your
heart would have responded and no
doubt your handkerchief would have
been necessary, and think you would
have been unashamed that the eyes
grew dim and words and imagination
failed to grasp situation so great and
so far reaching as this.
If you are student of history you
we'll know how China has for centuries
been hampered and her great country
with it's teeming millions of honest.
frugal people denied the privilege Of
developing either themselves or the
vast resources Of their country. How
superstition and tradition, cast and ig
torrance have operated together with
the Manchu dynasty to prevent any
progress. Now, to think that after the
lapse of all these centuries a country
which in former ages had learned as
tronomy, had made paper and gun.
powder and had many of the present
necessities ahead of every other peo-
pie have at last thrown off the yoke
of the oppressor and have laid aside
the old dogmas, the old traditions and
superstitions, and have cut off their
queues and thus showing to the world
that they are no longer subjects of