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Show GOSHEN DENOUNCES ANTI-JAPANESE MOVEMENT I S. L. MINISTER ! RAPS ACTIO! Of L 0. S. LEADERS Goshen Criticizes labernacle Talks Made on Sugar Indictment RAClAi PREJUDICE STRONGLY DENOUNCED Educator of Japanese Also Takes S-and Aciainst Exclusion Move At the evening session of the thirty ' seventh annual meeting of the State Association of Congregational Churches Church-es held in the Plrst Congregational church here last night the principal speakers were Dr. Elmer I. Gosh -r. pastor of the First Congregational church, Salt Lake, and Dr. Otis Car- i ey, director of the Christian worlv among the Japanese of the city of Ogden. Speaking from the pulpit In which 22 years ao; he commenced Ills life. SS a Congregational minister, T)r Co-shen Co-shen spoke from the words it Jesus, The Kingdom of God Is within ou" "Every scholar who knows these words Insihe original language in whlcli Lhcy v re first spoken by the Matei of the beautiful life, knows that they mean the Kingdom of God Is In you. In the d'epest heart of the Common man. of every man No mtn everl Went wrong who listened to the voice of the Inner heart, for there God speaks of highest duly. SI n IMHI TMIAP. "When benedict Arnold Was thinking, upon the foul deed the greatest struggle strug-gle he encountered was no' with friends or enemies, but with hi:nsel:. No man ever purposed wrong who had not to fight D better tight with the-better the-better man within himself. So when hierarchs of a great ecclesiastical oi -ganlAitlon, speaking from th- . X'ltcd platform of their largest building in this state plead with men and women to have 'charity' in judgment for erooked men who fent the prfol ol sugar soarhig up from price wh( i a poor man COUld buy it to a prli where only rich men can afford It. tlirv are askinif us to condone wlcke I- ' ness in the hearts of others wlcked- ness which first of all the voices of their own hearts spoke out against BLIND L IDERS l Till BUND 'W hen political b aders. more In love with power than with the com-! com-! monwealth go out on their campaigns 'for a presltfentlal election and throw dust in he eyes of the people so that we do not see that the great, st issue t before the world today is not merely I domestic question of any kind, but the great question of tackling International I difficulties in an International court. i and exercisinn Internatloal good will, they arp blind leaders o the billet. "When disgraceful politicians In California; in order to ensure their own election excite racial prejudiced agsJne e people because the color of Itheir skin is yellow, despite the fact t hit t the Japanese people by Industry and iiuellisrence have niii(l an arid ; desert to blossom like the sose, they are not merely char.iltans but pol-i pol-i soners of the springs of goodw ill j among men. HUROHES PASSED B . "Some so-called Christian leaders talk a great deal about the way in Which the world Is 'challenging the . hufches.' The WOSld Is not chnlleng- ing the church. The world of oom- 1 mon men and w omen Is passing tne ( : churches by. Why? Because tho churches have forgotten to denounce, inequity and make a pathway through human wickedness to higher levels of pure living. Tho conscience of tho J common man outside the churches Is working a great deal more effectively1 and cnlighf nedly than the conscience of many men who call themselves 'Christian' leaders. "Jesus is of value to our race because be-cause he encouraged the common man ml all men to find the God wilbln. Obey His voice speaking there, Tind forgetting the presence of hierarchs. and priests, give a willing submission to the still, small voleo which always! speaks in every man of holiness and dUty of love and righteousness." .TAPWFSi; PKor.Ll M Speaking of tho "Japahese l'roh- lem." Dr. Otis Caroy, for forty-one, years a missionary of the Congroga tional churches In Japamand for twenty-four years a professor in the famous Doshiaya University, sought to confound con-found the antl-Japanese politicians in this country who wish to depart from the fundamental idea of Arnerii an go'. -emment "We are being encourag'-d to discriminate against the Japaneesl because the Japanese have gone to I an arid state of this country, put thelvi Intelligence to work, and made of a! desert a wealthy and fruitful gard IIL We are being encouraged to discriminate discrimi-nate against the Japanese who ar-well ar-well known as law abiding, frugal an I industrious, and a credit to the human race, it is difficult to make out what the anti-Japanese element really mean I except that lhcy object to the Japanese j principalis and entirely because lhcy belong to a race of a different COlof I from ourselves. hi i i Pi OP1 I n W This means that we believe In a i government of w hite people for white I pie only. Th"' Japanese have a j right to complain They are. in even argument being discriminated against. This COUntrj bus received .-migrants , from every quarter of the globe, ask-I ask-I ing only that they strive to become n-1 n-1 duslrlous. law abiding and faithful cit-I cit-I lzens of this democracy The Japanese have shown thtfmselves amenable to our form of government, able to as-! as-! slmilate western ideas, and in addition. have poured Into the wealth of this country enormous treasure by reason I of their Indusu-v. ability und intelligence. intelli-gence. The should not be discriminated discrimi-nated against. I MIGRATION Ql I 81 I09i "The time has come perhaps." said Dr. Carey, "when this country should I really go into the matter of emigration. emigra-tion. Whether we ought to encourage ! tho residents of other parts of tho globe to make their home here is a matter for wise Investigation and! sound conclusion. Hut mean while the Japanese ought not to be discriminated against in tho interests of tho selfish aims of individual politicians who think more of their seats In legislatures, legis-latures, congress, and the senate. an more than the Italian, or the Pole, or the Englishman, or the Canadian, who, wish to live here, should be discriminated discrimin-ated against. The government of this country Is of the people, by the people, peo-ple, for the people, and until our emigration emi-gration laws arc altered, all I hose who settle In this land, desiring to b come citizens of this republic ought to receive the protection of the law of the land and be saved from the con-tumels con-tumels which low minded and selfish persona seek id heap upon them." |