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Show DAILY UTAH STATE JOURNAL, UTAH STATE JOURNAL OGDEN, UTAH. frank j. cannon, editor. CIVILIZATION AND AGNOSTICISM. A singular fact to provoke thought in war unconnection with the Russo-JapaneMuscovite declaration derlies the mock-piothat Christian Russia is in the breach to settle Christendom's score with heathendom, the imis a plication being, of course, that Japan Constitu-tioheathen nation, says the Atlanta se us n. In the commonly accepted sense, this is true, and herein lies a seeming parados of civilization. Did you ever reflect how strange it seems that of all civilized and highly progressive peoples, the Japanese are the only nationality that has assimilated the arts of civilization without accepting civilization's religion ? For all her progress and adaptability for western material cunning, Japan presents to-das difficult a field of foreign missions as darkest China. The imitative Japs accept our education in books and the arts of civilization eagerly ; they will have none of our God and the divine book. If, in becoming civilized, Japan had remained pagan, the wonder would have been greater ; but Japan did not remain pagan, so far as the effect of western ideas and practices on her more intelligent and advanced sons She became and daughters is concerned. agnostical and in matters spiritual shook her I do not wise little head and said simply The Japanese student studies our know. theology as the Japanese cadet at Annapolis studies our naval system. We have been able to convince him in the latter instance, but not in the first. He returned to the fatherland educated, but not Christianized. Indeed, we did worse than not give him our religion ; we took away from him the religion of his fathers. Originally the Japanese were Buddhists, and whoever has read Sir Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia must perceive that as primitive Buddhism was once practiced in Japan, it did not differ materially from Christianity in the higher ethical, moral and inspirational sense. It was a gentle, humane creed, and anything but idolatry in the superficial view of image-worshi- p. The precepts of the pure and noble Gautama were taken to heart by the Japanese as the divine precepts of the meek and lowly Nazarene are accepted by the Christian world, and the children of Dia Nippon were as a result strangely gentle, virtuous and truly philosophical. Our ideals of the beauty and sweetness of Japanese life and character are drawn from pagan Japan. Modem Japan is quite a different pooposition. When the Jap became civilized in the accepted western sense, he lost his faith in the divinity of his ancient religion which, it is true, had become sadly perverted by the priesthood. He did not hesitate to discard the supernatural elements of the national faith while retaining its moral code as an admirable philosophical rule of life. In a word, he became as a skeptic who accepts the philosophy of Jesus without accepting His divin itv or inspired mission. Thus civilization made the Jap an agnostic without being able to proselyte him to Christianity. The superior Japanese place the teachings of Christ alongside those of Buddha, Confucious,, Mencius, and the other spiritual philosophers of the Orient, and while trying to live moral lives, shrug their shoulders at the superstitions of religionists, whether Western or Oriental. Of course, the lower class still cling the to the crumbling temples of their fathers, many of them still attributing a kind of divinity to the mikado, but industrialism and what we broadly call commercialism have well nigh destroyed religion as an institution ay FEBRUARY MONDAY, 22, 1904 to the New he sympathizes York Sun, says that much as Jews who the and Poles with the Catholic he cannot have been persecuted by Russia, one second to weigh .for allow that sympathy against American interests. We have, he says, a Monroe Doctrine. We must have the Panama Canal and a strong navy, or that doctrine would be no more than empty brag. Looking at the war as a question of straight business simply, we must remember that Russia was a practical friend in need in our civil wan We have nothing to kdo with her motive. The fact remains. There is no danger that Russia will attack our Monroe Doctrine. If our Monroe Doctrine should be attacked in the future by England, or Germany or by a combination of European powers, the aid of a strong European power, on their flank, would be of much more practical use to us than the cheap sympathy of an Asiatic power like Ja- Michael Corcoran, writing pan. Gratitude is defined as an expectation of favors to come ; and on the ground of favors past and favors to come, American interests which are above all interests would seem to demand an attitude of friendly neutrality toward Russia on the part of all patriotic Americans. tobacco interest in the Philippines is suffering from the high tariff and relief is asked for. Secretary Taft has received a telegram from Trinidad H. Parvo de Tavara, the member of the Philippine commission at Manila, signed by seven preside nts of cigar-maker- s' guilds, as follows : The Laborers, cigar factories, Manila, con- gratulate you on assuming new office ; earnestly ask your influential aid in urging legisla- tion this session of congress for free entry into the United States of Philippine manufactured tobacco ; only salvation of this great thousand cigarmakers suffering misery through decadence tobacco industry appeal to congress of the United States for help and protectidh.' All I can say in furtherance of this petition will be little, in view of great importance of subject matter. To the above message Secretary Taft made the following response : Will do everything possible for such legislation this session. If not successful shall continue efforts. The justice of our cause will triumph in the end. interest; Hon. John F. Shafroth, former repre- sentative in congress from Colorado, who resigned his seat because of election frauds in Denver, in a recent interview denied that these frauds were committed mainly by women. He Of the persons implicated very few said : were women ; not more than one in ten at the outside. The frauds were committed in the lowest part of Denver, where not many worn en live. The incident was not characteristic of the womens voting in Colorado, and it js preposterous to make it an argument against female suffrage. Everybody knows there are bad women as well as bad men, but what HE NEVER BETRAYED HIS TRUST. UTAH and Nearby States Lyceum family Theater SAWYER dk GRAND YOUNG, Proprietors OPERA Jos. dark, Manager. Week of Feb. 22d mon Coon Songs LULU THEIS, AN & 8 McKEEVER cltl-se- n DRY, O. a Helfrich, prominent Joseph Comedy 8keteh Artists. of Mountain Home, and formerly asaesor and collector of Elmore county, DEMARIA & ORLANDO, was run over and killed by a train at Songs and Dances. MARVELOUS KINGDOM, Nampa, Idaho, yesterday. Hooligan on Wheels. While coming down the mountain MISS GERTIE STARK, near Rockville, Utah, with a load of Illustrated Songs. lumber recently, Frank Petty dis10c. mounted from his wagon to fix his Admission, brake, allowing the wagon to. run upon the team. The horses started to run and both were killed. In a fit of Jealousy Miss Lou Adams shot and killed Patrick H. King Jr., a DANCING ACADEMY. ranchman, In the Eureopean hotel at La Junta, Col.; yesterday. Miss REGULAR DANCE EVERY MONDAY EVENING. Adams is it years old and Is the daughter of Mrs. Maggie Adams of Garden City, Kan. Kings father was for several years a general contractor for the The people living adjacent to the watershed of Twelve-Mil- e creek, Sanpete county, are up In arms against the graslng of sheep upon that part of the Manti forest reserve. The Gunnison and Mayfield irrigation companies have united upon taking a hand in the question of asking the government for protection. A committee was appointed to draft a petition, and the petition is now In circulation and is receiving a large number of signatures. would any good maH think if it were proposed to take his vote away from him because a few "I never saw such an exclusive familbad men somewhere had cheated at an elec tion ? In Colorado the women vote as gener- y-" Thats easily explained." "How?" ally as the men, and fraud is much rarer They've cut loose from the society among them. As a rule their election meth- they had, and cant get into the slclety ods are honorable, and the influence of woman they seek. Chicago Evening Post. snffrage on the .state has been distinctly for Start the new year right subscribe for the Journal, II a year. good. f Three thousand words a minute, at a cost of from 10 to 15 cents per thousand words ! : EVERYTHING Such is the startling promise of a method just devised, which is certainly destined, if it can j IN TINWARE be made practicable, as seems probable, to IT see Al see work a complete revolution in the system of g The message is taken by telegraphy. j Mighty Little Prices : stenographer and transferred to a tape on which the letters are punched out by a main Japan. bottom wash boilers, 90c Copper 2 Galvanised Iron wash boilers, 90c This is truly a strange effect of civiliza- chine operated by a keyboard. 48c 2 Copper rim tea kettles tion on the pagan mind. Since Christianity is Three quart tea pots 13c a concomitant institution of civilization in the In the Portland (Me.) municipal court a Three quart coffee pots 13c western world, it is quite natural that we few days ago a woman Milk 10c got to the limit of ex- 2 Pint strainers 2 for should expect the Japanese to assimilate it cuses 5c cups, that an apparent drunkenness e Dust pans by 8c along with the other things they are eager to was in saying reality only a desperate attempt on her 2 Painted cuspidors borrow from us. Their failure to do so places 10c to break in a pair of new shoes and at the 2 Painted chamber pa II them in a decidedly unique position among the part jc Flour cans 73c progressive nations of the earth and affords same time to walk on ice. Judge Hill smiled need If in are of you an absorbing study for independent anything thought. but gave her thirty days. 2 in tinware don't foil to visit our t Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 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