The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1916-08-01
Speaker rat Chautauqua Gives
Remarkably FOrceful
Address
SAYS ASIATICS
MUST BE KEPT OUT
Otherwise United States Will be
Forced Again to Correct Errors of An
cestors - DR.. A. E. Turner Speaks
Violin Recital.

| SSoSolo LII "a pUGdkS-
Violin Recital.
| Not before in a generation has a
Brattleboro audience listened to such
| a tremendously forceful and vitallv in
terestlng address as was delivered on
tile Chautauqua platform last night by
Montaville Flowers of Los Angeles,
| Cal, whose subject was Rebuilding the
| Temple. 1t was Il plea for keeping up
! the bars against the admission of the
| brown and yellow races of the world
into the United States and for uphold
ing the Monroe doctrine, lest the cit
| lZens OF tins country be forced some
| day TO correct by armed conflict the
errors of their ancestors. as they did
| half century ago. It was thor
| oughly convincing argument and a
wonderful exhibition of oratorv. There
were times when the large audience ap-
| piauded vigorously, but most of the
time the listeners We're too seriously
engaged with their thoughts to give
much physical demonstration
| War. he said is the name for
breakdown i'll civilization, and the
| whole temple of civilization has been
| Hat on several occasions The present
war Is the product of great groups of
errors, amt unless the people come to
see what has caused the collapse and
| eliminate those causes in rebuilding
| their temple it will fall again. The
| first error to be eliminated is the idea
that any man. has divine right to
rule his fellow men. The world will
rise up and declare a new declaration
L.of Independence. Another error is the
secret diplomacy. which breeds dis
/ trust among the nations and which
| ever has been the parent of war Ma
/ tions should make their treaties out in
the open as they do their laws. The
treaties of the nations in the triple al
lance and the triple entente never
have been laid before the people of
/ those nations.
1t has been considered in Europe to
be right for one nation to acquire land
/ from another by force. No two see
tions of the world should come to-
gether except by the willing union of
their people. The Monroe doctrine adj
mits no such thing in the western hem
| isqhere, and when YOU take the pol
licy of the Monroe doctrine ont of this
hemisphere you take the keystone out
| of its arch of peace. When the peo-
pie rise high enough to see it they
Twill realize that the Monroe doctrine
/ is the first beacon light leading to in
ternational morality. ''Think of Eng
land and Germany getting up on a
plane that high. - the speaker ex-
claimed. "and we must be careful
lest we ourselves fall off -
''The destiny of humanity lies
pressing at your hearts tonight" Mr..
| Flowers asserted. "and unless we see
our road ahead of us America s des-
tiny viii be but matter of blind and
I, staggering chance. -
| Then he asked if the United States
would make the fundamental blunder
of race mixture. To admit the brown
and yellow races of Asia would be the
most fatal and irretrievable blunder of
this generation. Ten men from the
| North and 10 from the South could
have disposed of the slavery question
had they taken If in time, but thev
sidestepped it until it became a dragon
that forced the two sections into war.
He showed that at the present rate of
increase this country s population
would be 350,000,000 at the end of
ltha present century and that if the
Asiatic races are admitted the figures
Twill become stupendous. Moreover. no
lereat human stock ever has come out
of a race cross, but it always has been
inferior to the original stock. eff we
can hold still 10 years. declared the
speaker. " "America will remain the
white man IS land forever
In the afternoon Dir. A. f. Turner,
for years prominent in Chautauqua
circles and a former college PRECEDENT,
lectured on Watch Your Step, or Re-
| building Your Town This lecturer is
one of the few on the Chautauqua cir
cult, or any other, who can handle sta
tistics in a convincing manner. He
used them to illustrate or emphasize a
point instead of making them the pri-
mary basis Of his argument.
His whole argument was based on
the conservation of resources and the
| lack of preparedness of the United
/ States in economic things. He began
with the children and pointed out that
81 per cent of the year s time is given
to vacations and yet great majority
of the children of the country begin
earning their living at II years of age.
One great trouble is the lack of indus
! trial training. They leave the schools
with their heads full of nothing valu-
able and less than one per cent have
: had any industrial training. One of
; the great reasons for Germany s pres
: ent position is the fact that for wears
y they have taught their BOYS and girls
5 to do something.
He urged a hygienic law which will