New-York tribune., 1919-03-23

Nights. Even to one familiar
-.,,b the Orient it is sometimes surprising
:. ~salze how the Chinese lean on America
-. Guidance in establishing themselves
.,sr the republic. The United States is
,hs;r model of Christian civilization and
-, institutions are their ideals.
"A new democracy is now making on the
.o;, of ancient China. and the contribution
:, this yellow race to the world in the
roars TO come depends upon the contribu-
ZION of the white race to the yellow in the
nresent generation. That is why the world
moyement OF the Protestant churches of
North America, as it applies to China,
means SO much
The speaker was DR.. Ralph A. Ward,
,oan-iawed. keen-eyed Westerner of the
crusader type, who, though still young
man. has spent years in American Church
schools in China and knows that country
and its people as few Occidentals can know
them. He is recently from Foochow, where
IL one of the four union universities in
China, in whose support are united the
Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Con-
eregationalists and Episcopalians.
DR.. Ward is a Methodist, associate execu-
tive secretary OF the centenary committee of
that church, which started this worldwide
movement, and will have charge of the world
survey which precedes the laying out of the
campaign in which are united all the
Protestant denominations on this continent.
ut was the Church," went on DR.. Ward.
which carried the message of American
democracy and Christian ideals to China.
and what the influence thus exerted has al
ready meant is shown in the Chinese dele
cation to the peace conference which is
looking the Japanese delegates to Paris
70 squarely in the face. One of the two
Chinese delegates, DIR. c. T. Wang, is
product of St. Johns School at Shanghai
and was at one time general secretary of
the Y. NJ. c. A. in China. He graduated
from the Chinese government university
at Peiyang and then came to this country
aud took degree at Yale.
"Lu Tseng-hsiang, Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and the other principal on the
peace delegation, married the daughter of
distinguished Belgian offaer in 1899, and
they are bringing up theif' children in the
Christian religion. Of tha tther members
Of the Chinese delegation, Dr.. vi Kyuin We'll
,ngton Koo, Chinese Minister to the United
States, and Alfred S. K. SEE, Chinese Minis
ter to Great Britain, are both st. Johns
School boys. DR.. Koo is one Of the most
brilliant of the younger Chinese, and when
he came to Washington at the age Of thirty.
three years ago, he was the youngest diplo-
matte representative ever accredited to this
country
"Dr Koo is graduate Of Columbia and
is master of international law. He was
President Yuan Shih-kai's private secretary
Before being appointed to Washington,
Il In China we are dealing with race, not
merely nation. The outstanding struggle
o. the next century may be between the
yellow race and the white race Much de-
pends upon the extent to which the prin-
eples Of justice and world friendship pre-
vail at Versailles, and far more depends
upon the spreading of the gospel of uni
versal brotherhood which underlies all
tnrlstian civilization, however far we may
sometimes depart from it.
AS China goes in the next two decades.
20 goes the whole Orient for the next GEN.
suc. China is the centre of an interna-
aonal problem which has on its circumfer-
eaee Russia in Asia, japan, the United
otases in the Philippines, France in Indo-
lnina, Siam, the Netherlands in the East
indies and Great Britain in Malaysia and
andia. The whole Orient is a single prob
len, s'sssn, and its centre is appallingly weak.
q, With the possible exception Of japan.
s''s ls entire Far East is moving toward de-
.,aoeFacy and republican institutions. An
.gaeation to those backward races Of the
spf'ncipies for which the great war has been
'ssed and won will eventually give self
sgsernment to every race in the Eastern
nemisphere. But self-government on the
.aer side of the globe can hardly move
a.sser than China establishes sound institu-
Tons. ''s''"-
cnina is in anarchy. Robber bands pil-
ass 'ne country lying back from the high
OF international commerce. Rival
rsn'es incite revolution after revolution
-Ss national control. Central authority is
s0ne' Provinces, districts and cities do
,ssae .aen as they please. The soldiery is broken
-'0 oisintegrated units, and where local