The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1913-01-15

the ages in the foremost files OF
time;" the fairest product OF an age
long revolution, and the worlds Last
Hope. After us-the End-and We
generally spell US, U S. When it suits
our purpose I'VE hold that all men
are created equal" Like a foreign
gentleman in Toyko, speaking OF the
Japanese myth history, eve know it
is so, but we don't believe it, So
our forefathers fell on their knees;
then fell on the aborigines," and we
have inherited their divine destiny
The American abroad is likely to
carry the same spirit. He feels that
the first duty of all men otherwhere
is to fear him and obey his command
ments; and that, too, in the mother
tongue. One of our well BRED citi-
zens recently remarked: 81 asked
that fellow when the bridge would be
open, but the fool couldn't talk Eng
lish." A denzen of one of these
strange lands, stung by a similar COM
ment, said:
you spik French?''
mo"
"Italian?"
NO"
"Spanish?'
No"
Creek"
"No."
"Arabic?"
"No."
''Turkish?"
mo; | don't speak any of these
"Well, suppose | fool, you six times
fool"
AS. BENZ. Kidd declares: eve shall
have to set aside many of our ideas
on the race question. Neither in re-
spect alone of color nor of descent,
nor even the possession of high intel
lectual capacity, can science give us
any warrant for speaking of one race
as superior to another" No people
is altogether great or wholly ignoble.
Real superiority is the result, not so
much of anything inherent in one ma
ton as distinguished from another, as
of the operation OF certain uplifting
forces. Any attainment we possess
is due to such influences and they can
be brought to bear on the Newest
Republic" America can still do much
in changing the widespread feeling
that these people are mere animals
with pig tails and bound feet; and can
enlarge world vision of the soul be-
hind the face.
With exemplary patience the Chin
csc have borne such American Unjust
ice as the following:
Two young students who suffered
in the Boxer outbreak, one of whom,.
at imminent risk of himself, brought
the first authentic information con-
corning the fate of American mission
aries in two cities, who were provided
with formal certificates duly issued to
them by our counsel at Tienstin, and
also with a special document from
Marquis Lii Hung Chang, the most in
fluential man here, were treated by
United. States officials at San Fran
cisco with a suspicion that would
have done credit to Turkey. "Arriv-
ing at the Golden Gate Sept II, 1901,
it was not until Jan. 10, 1908, that
they succeeded in reaching Oberlin
College. and those sixteen months
were filled with indignities from
which their friends could not save
them"
After formally inviting China to par
ticipate in our st. Louis exposition
we proceeded to make the fair
grounds prison pen for her exhib.
itors and to put them under $4,000
bonds to get out of the country by
first steamer when the show was
over. A vigorous protest and threat
to cancel acceptance of our invita-
ton forced the barbarous rules to be
withdrawn and more decent ones sub
stituted.
The Chinese minister to Washing
ton, in an address in Chicago, said:
'More Chinese subjects have been
murdered by mobs in the United
States during the last twenty-five
years than all the Americans who
have been slain in China in similar
riots. In every instance when Amer