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Show Speaking of Chinese immigration, there is an- i jfl other view point which must not be lost sight of. i ' ' 1 ,9 It is going to be impressed upon the white race , j j 9 of the world in the next few years, the need of a ' 9 closer drawing together of the so-called Chris- 1 ' ' i 9 tian nations. There are mighty murmurings in L j , 9 the hives of the yellow and brown races which r i 19 indicate that they are about to swarm. One ' 1 . m9 writer already declares that British domination jfl in Africa is doomed; that in a few years more the ' j . ' jfl black votes will outnumber the white votes in P 9 Cape Town. The Mos.:"- rao iow embrace a ' f 9 population of 170,000,000, and I idia is held in sub- j 1 1 9 jection solely because of the j' isy between the j i U 9 I Ik IE , f Indian princes, each preferring British rule to that I )j of his rival princes. It will be seen at a glance I I how much the Christian nations are outnumbered, I ,i and should Japan train the off-colored races into 1 i ' ; I one compact military mass why, we must not 1 ' 1 I forget that when grasshoppers come in clouds 1 : ! thick enough, they can, with their dead, stop a I locomotive, it We see what Japan has done in fifty years. I j. ji What may not her tireless energy, her disregard I ; ; of truth, her duplicity for duplicity is her strat- I , t egy in peace accomplish in fifty years more? ; I Surely these are days to preach patriotism; 1 j 1 these are days to convince the laboring hosts of jj our country that Government and people have a I H special regard for them and will not permit them I I to enter into competition with a race so trained 1 Hi in a four-thousand year contest with want that 'IS tiev can ve on oot wich one of the generous ffl races could not swallow; that can live on half m air and can toil and support a family on wages S that will not support life in a white man. Another thing. Of late rich men have been 'I raising monuments to themselves by endowing I ; if universities with princely gifts. This is all right; ffi li I we would not discourage such gifts or seek to j! ! I lessen the glory due men who make such be- 4 l fi quests; but the truth remains that most of the , 1 university students could attend without such Ij gifts, and that it would be better to imitate Peter I 1 Cooper and prepare schools that would enable 1 M poor boys and girls to so fit themselves for the 1 9 world's work that the world would need them the I 1 moment they left school. The way to avoid com- 1 1' petition is to get up above it, and this is true in m I every walk of life. I 1 It is said that Thomas Jefferson once made I s H the wish that an ocean of fire might roll between 1 . H our country and the outside world, that the race P HM on our shores might grow up to be thorough i : 9 Americans. A better wish is to so take restraints I m -away from the people and to so train the young 1 s of our race that the illimitable distance between m tne blessings of our country and all others will i j 1 kindle such gratitude in American hearts that they 9 can surely be counted on in any emergency of I ; M peace or war. The best way to do this is to so j . m fit the youth of the land that by their exertions . I i ' 1 1 an ecome dependent from the start. |