The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-09-29
ORIENTAL POLITICS
STUDENT LECTURE
RAPHAEL EMMANUEL BE-
FORE TEACHER COLLEGE
SON OF HIGH PRIEST
He Will Go Back To His People
and Tell Them of World s
Wonders

The students of the Mankato
State Teachers college had the un-
ique experience this morning of
hearing oriental politics interpreted
from the oriental viewpoint when
Raphael Emmanuel, Prince OF Chal
dca, lectured on 'Mesopotamia" in
the PRESBYTERIAN church. Prince Ra-
phael Emmanuel is the son OF the
high priest of the Chaldeans, de-
scendant OF NebuchadnezZar, the
great king of Babylon, as we'll as a
descendant OF Chaldean wise men
and seers. He was taught the Bible
by his father, who trained and quail
flied him for the office of chief
high priest. He is only twenty
seven years of ago and yet has
mastered five different languages
sonally he is very attractive, with
flashing dark eyes, curly hair and
white teeth, and has the appearance
of well groomed man >of the
world.
Still in Darkness
In his address, Prince Raphael
compared modern civilization to that
of his own land, where the people
are still bartering as they did 5000
years ago; they do not know the
uses of money matches. gas, cleo
t1icity, pianos, railroad trains, books
Except the Chaldean Bible), motion
things which we believe to be alb
solutely essential, to modern civil
cation, are known in Chaldea. The
men are honest and the women
mcdest-they are still in the early
dawn of civilization" the world
of men has rolled past them in
chariots, railway 90, trains, and auto
mobiles, and it is now flying over
them in airplanes; but the Chaldean
needs it not and is content to live
and die unknowing.
When the Aryan barbarians be-
gan to invade MescDotamia 1000
lization in the Suhmerian Akkad-
ian empire, of which Babylon, nigh
ty Babylon, was the capital.
They Know Not Civilization
From these Babylonians, of which
the Chaldeans of the twentieth cen
fury sare the lineal descendants.
present day civilization is derived;
yet the Chaldeans still living in the
land of their fathers know it not
for they have kept no written rec
ords and are not even familiar with
the carsiye. script and ideographs OF
the clay tablets of Nippur and ,Susa
are still bartering the product OF
their handicraft in the open market
places for the cattle of the Tigris
delta and the fruits of the Euphrates
as their forefathers did when Sar-
gon reigned and the people were
erecting a great tower in Babel to
their chief god. El-Iil This is
strange. too. for it was in the close
iy neighboring region of Lydia, e.
i soc years ago, that Croesus ,minted
the first gold coin and the Semitic
merchants began to use leather
money" as an equivalent of ex-
yer credit of cities, temples and
private bankers.
viii Tell People of Wonders
Raphael Emmanuel, son of the
! high priest of the Cadeans, says he
is going back to his people to tell
them of the wonders he has seen;
but he is doubtful If thew will desire
to change from their ways and Gus
toms to become as we are, wise in
the lore of our civilization and dis
contented with the fruits of it
surviving lot tnat WHICH we never
achieve; toiling overtime in the
making of that which is never fin
ished; always yearning for that
/ which we do not possess and weary
with disappointment after we get
it. Emmanuel, the Chaldean, will go
hack to the ruins of Babylon as
from a troubled dream, glad to wake
once more in the happier environ
ment Of 5000 B. G.