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Show AMERICA AND THE FAR EAST At the banquet given at the First Presbyterian church last night. Kev. Ernest F. Hall of San Francisco delivered de-livered another one of LU interesting addresses on "America and the Far East." In (.art Mr. Hall spoke a folic fol-ic s s : "The Far East is the name usujlly Eivcn to thole nations about the China and Japan eeas. 1 be problem of the Far East la the prob.em of who fchail bo mistress China, Japan or Russia. The bulij.ng of the Trans-Siberian r broad a lew years ago complicated matters by bringing Europe into ton-lllct ton-lllct with AbU In that part of the world, 'ihe transfer of the Philip-nines Philip-nines from Spain to tho United States made Ameiica Interested in the eastern east-ern question. "The war between Japan and China over Korea In 1804 marked a new era la the eastern world. Japan was a military nation and China had never I studied war and was not piepared. , The battlefield in northern Korea af-I af-I ter the last encounter ' was strewn i with Chinese fans. The next time they fight Japan the Chinese will probably leave such Impedimenta at home. j "A half-century ago America thundered thun-dered at Japan's hermit door aud demanded de-manded admittance. Commodore Perry's Per-ry's guns were too powerful an argument argu-ment to answer, so Japan capitulate'. Theu she eent her scouta all over tho world to see what was doln, the result re-sult being that Japan Is now ranked among the foremost powers. "China's treaty ports swung open half a century ago, but China remained re-mained the same nation that she had been for centuries and centuries, until the war with Japan made her reallzo her danger. Up to that lime the western west-ern nations had regarded her as "Aloof from our mutation and unrest, Allen of our achievement and d-Stre, d-Stre, "Like a great giant awaking from a long sleep the nation is stirring and making tho 'yellow peril' loom big. "We can reallzo what that peril Is when we consider China's size and resources. re-sources. . The population is one-fourth that of the entire world lour hundred hun-dred millions of them eight times as many people ms there aro In Japan, and at lenst four times as many as the population of tho United States. Until now the people have been separated sep-arated by dialects nnd lack of means of communication. IJut all that is changing. Four hundred dally papers bring to them the Associated I'res news from all parts of the world Telegraph, Tele-graph, telephone, cables and an up-to-date postal service connect thern with other nations and bring the various 'arts of their own land together. "The first railroad was built in ISTiV In 1U07 the mileagj completed and projected approximated 9.000 miles. "Mr. Stone of tho Associated Press, after a recent visit to China, said that the nation is rapidly changing irom a purchasing to a producing nation. "The country is rich In mineral resources re-sources Coal in large quantities has been found in every province, and til-ether til-ether commercial minerals anj precious pre-cious stones are abundant. China In the past has entirely supplied its own wants by scratching the surface of the. ground "In September, 1903, China abolished the obi system of education and adopted the western, and now schools after the best models are in every province. An army Is being drilled and equipped, and now an order has been given to prepare a navy. "The awakening of the Far East pioduces world problems of tremendous tremen-dous proportions and America needs to study the problem. "Americas part in the solution of it is not primarily commercial or political. po-litical. Some one has well said, 'War diplomacy, commerce, Industrial ex pension and governmental reforms never settle anything, wh.le they ten 1 to unsettle everything.' Therr; must be something infused into the ea t from the west that has made the west I what it Is. That something is moral and religious. After living several years in the midst of Buddhism, Shln-telsin, Shln-telsin, Confucianism' and the worst forms of heathen religion, I can assure you that there Is noihing in all the forms of thought or life of the heathen that will avert a great international catastrophe. The 'yellow peril' will become a reality unless we lay In the east a new foundation m righteousness righteous-ness on which the ivw national superstructures super-structures shall be built. "Ai editorial in the Portland Ore-gonlan Ore-gonlan recently on "The Chobrt Curse' said 'The owner nl a well-kept l.i wn adjacent to a lliisile Held will i never be free from thistles until they i are exterminated in the field, it will i be similarly impossible for the United States to escape cholera and plague as long as they aie permitted o nourish unchecked in countries with vbich we are constant! doing business." busi-ness." "The fame holds true regarding moral contamination. The world Is getting all mixed up in these days, aud we cannot maim u In our high ethical ethi-cal and religious standards unless the spiritual thistles of the Orient are eradicated, for In these days of com- I niuiileatlon they border our American j lawn. "Some one says. 'Let the heathen alone Their religion is good enough for them.' But heathenism uninlhi-enced uninlhi-enced by Christianity has never built hospitals and schools, relieved the. oppressed op-pressed and the suffering, and has never stamped out scourges from the nations. Even if their religions were good enough for them, they are not good enough for them lo practice when they conio into contact with us." |