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Newspaper Page Text4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL K»t*rod at th* Atlaat* Poarotftc* u Mali Mat ter at U» Second Claaa. jaxm *. mr, Editor aad Geaoral MaMgor. bUBBOLLPTIOM FUSE Tweiro month* T»e Wx moot ha *X Ttro* month* M< «t, Ike Setnl-Woekly Journal la pnbllabed on Toeadaj ui4 Friday. and to mailed by the abort «•* route* tor —rlj delivery. It eoetaine new* from all orer the world, broe<ht by special leased wire* Into our office It ha* * staff of dlatta<alabed contributor*, with itrong departments of *p*clal *alu* tc the I tome and the farm. Aymt* wanted at every poatrfflee. Liberal eoanmlmion allowed. Outfit free. Write to f P- R. Randolph. Circulation Manager. The only traveling representative* we bar* •re J. A Rtyan. B F. Bolton C. C. Coyle »nd M. H. Gilreath We wfU be renposmlble for money paid te the above named traveling ■MamMaa - ♦ ♦ ♦ NOTXCB TO SUBSCRIBERS ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ The label used for addressing ♦ ♦ your paper shows the time your ♦ ♦ aubacr'ptlon expires. By renewing ♦ ♦ at least two weeks before the ♦ ♦ date on thia label, you insure -e ' ♦ regular service. ♦ ♦ In ordering paper changed, be ♦ ♦ sure to mention your old. as well ♦ ♦ as your now. address If on a ru- ♦ ♦ ral routs, please give the route ♦ ♦ number. ♦ Wo cannot enter subscriptions ♦ ♦ to begin with back numbers. Re- ♦ ♦ mitt an ce should be sent by postal ♦ ♦ order, or registered mail. ♦ ♦ Address all orders and notices ♦ ♦ for this department to THE ♦ ♦ BEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL At- ♦ ♦ lanta. Ga ♦ ♦ * Marry in haste, repent In Reno. Why. our old friend, the Mexican revo lution. has shown its head again. The Pullman berth reduction goes into effect soon, but the Up remains the same Venus may or may not be inhabited. H Probably the next r*nsus will settle that What has become of the capttol moving , movement? Is the moving season over in Macon. IT those eggs do drop, there will be no mistaking it, if they drop hard enough. A few more days of thia, and the peach crop will be hurt, and this la no Idle ru mor, either. There is this objection to the warm I weather. It gives the boll weevil a chance to thaw. The world do move. Even conservative London has raised a fund to make her port the first in the world. “Prohibition workers busy in Chica go.” They will have to be busy to ac- . compUsh much in that town. ■r - Hummel has become a British sub- EHfect. to which the Fort Worth Record "God save the king!” HBlhe firs: of the month :s upon us again. we are reminded that there la still on last month's bills looks bad for the tobacco trust when Lurton complains that he can t gny good chewing tobacco. ■ Senator Bailey, it will be noticed, Is HE sticking to the Democratic donkey, even SM if he has sold his fine string of horsea ■ The motto of the United States courts E tn the trust busting program seems to ■ be ts you don’t at first bust, try, try ■ f again ■ Alabama is still undecided, it seems. I whether to wait awhile longer between f drink*. | If the weather is crasy. as has been stated, then let it stay demented a while longer. Dawson shows a gain in population. R too. AU over the state there are towns H destined some day to be tn Atlanta's K present eUs«. HL Greater New York faces a water fam ine, but the supply of other liquids Is still Ew the same on Broadway from Fourteenth B to Forty-second streets. R Decatur Is the progressive town. She Rdnot only has a fine sewer system, but ■ 'tow She has a board of trade. We can t B afford Dot to annex Cube. ■ The suggestion that Nat Goodwin ought W to be allowed space rates by paragraph- F ers la a good one. He is really entitled to M a column for each wife. Trade reciprocity having been agreed on with Canada, perhaps the United States msy snake it possible to sccept the Canadian dime at par value House plants that are buggy and shaggy refuse to improve should be thrown out They are an eyesore. Bet s' ter demolish the window garden than to mock nature with the victims of ig norance or neglect. The plowing under of green crops, like r. peas, oats, clover, alfalfa and other grasses, is next to a liberal use of barn- ■ y &r<l manure. If you raise fine fruit or vegetables for the table, why not let the people in our market town know it by means of a card? Tou may thus sell many a wagon I: load direct to consumers, and at a much better price than when the middleman is your only customer. Apples have a food value not far from that of the potato, as analysis will show. As a relish, they should not be “ underrated. Instead of the farmers sell ing apples for a small sum to be eon- E verted into cider, it would have been bet j ter to have kept them for feeding to the stock. The man who "makes a buaineas of farming' should have a business card; some printed letter-heada with the name of his farm home thereon; and should pay hie bills with checks on his bank. All these little things not only "make business. ' but help to dignify his call ing. improve his social standing and en hance his credit. Don’t Be Harsh i- With your bowels. Avoid strong Use the mild, effective, easy easy-to-operate medicine I V Hood’s Pill. They never weaken but have tonic as Veil as cathartic effect. 25c a box. FACTS ABOUT THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL INDICTMENT Now that the indictment against The Semi-Weekly Journal and some of its officials and employes has been decided in favor of The Journal, and the whole proceeding dismissed, the time has arrived when we can, with propriety, present to the public the facts in the case. Up to this time, the privilege of making a full statement of our position has been denied us for the sufficient rea son that the case was pending in court and any general presenta tion of the defense would have had the appearance of trying the case in the newspaper or seeking by indirect methods to influence the decision of the court. We have carefully refrained from giving the matter even this appearance. Having absolute confidence in the justice of our cause u 4 e have been content to await in silence the decision of the court, and in the meantime to suffer the wildest misrepresentations and slanders which have been heaped upon us by malicious enemies and scattered broadcast over the country. The public is entitled to know the truth about these charges and we shall give them. The Semi-Weekly Journal, its president, circulation man ager and two employes were indicted by the federal grand jury on the charge of a conspiracy to defraud the government of post age due. The specifications were briefly that in October and No vember, 1908, The Semi-Weekly Journal sent out at second class or newspaper rates a large number of copies of the paper as to subscribers not marked as sample copies and in excess of the number of sample copies permitted by the postal laws and regula tions —that the postal rate on such copies should have been four cents a pound instead of one/ cent, and that the violation of the postal regulations was in effect an effort to defraud the govern ment and, therefore, a criminal offense. The charge that this ex cess was sent as sample copies was abandoned in court and the indictment left to depend solely upon the charge that copies were sent out at the publishers’ rate to people who were not subscribers. It was also charged that fictitious entries were made in the circulation books of The Semi-Weekly Journal for the purpose of deceiving postoffice officials and that in this way the excess copies were permitted to go through the mails without the payment of sufficient postage. ' The charge is false from beginning to end. Witnesses from The Journal were subpenaed and attended who could and would have told the full facts, but they were not permitted to go before the grand jury or to testify. If they had been heard no indictment could have been secured. In a similar investigation before the same grand jury, the witnesses who knew the facts were permitted to testify and no indictment was returned. * The use of sample copies by weekly newspapers at certain seasons of the year for the purpose of extending circulation is a practice that has existed for many years, and has been followed by weekly newspapers throughout the country. Prior to 1908, the postal regulations permitted publishers to send out as many sample copies as the newspaper had subscriptions. In January, 1908, the postmaster general promulgated a regulation under taking to curtail this privilege by restricting the use of sample copies to ten per cent of the paper’s circulation and requiring that all samples copies in excess of ten per cent should pay postage at the rate of four cents a pound. In October and November, 1908, The Semi-Weekly Journal issued special editions of the paper, as had been its custom for many years, and sent out a considerable number of copies to persons other than yearly paid-in-advance subscribers. These excess copies were made up of three classes of individuals. Firsts delinquent subscribers, who were m. arrears with the oaner less than nine months. . Second, subscibers who had correctly answered certain geo graphical questions that had been propounded in the paper and to each of whom was promised a? many as four issues of the paper where correct answers to these geographical questions were sent in. From this source the paper received a very large number of correct replies and was therefore under contract to send as many as four issues of the paper to these persons. They were considered and treated as paid-in-advdance subscribers, be cause they had accepted a proposition made by the paper and correctly answered the questions propounded. Third, sample copies. . The copies sent as samples were so stamped m accordance with the postal regulations and inasmuch as it was claimed the ten per cent allowed us had already been exhausted, or approxi mately so, postage was paid on these sample copies to the post office'at the rate of four cents a pound. The postal regulations permit newspapers to retain on their list delinquents, as paying subscribers nine months after the ex piration of the subscription. . The Semi-Weekly Journal issued m October and November, 1908 editions of about 100,000 copies. Whatever names were nec essary over and above its yearly paid in advance subscription list were*made up of these three classes: Those who were subscrib ers but in arrears less than nine months, those who correctly an swered geographical question which had been published in the paper, and sample copies, on which four cents a pound was paid. The use of names in this way was not only lawful under the statute of the United States but was in strict obedience to all postal regulations. The charge that fictitious entries were made in The Journal circulation book is false and without the shadow of justification or excuse. The Journal had no circulation book. The names of Semi-Weekly subscribers are kept in type in mailing galleys. These galleys are divided into two classes. Those who have paid, and those who are in arrears less than nine months. The book upon which this charge was based is an office memorandum which was never intended to be anything more than a memorandum for the circulation department. It was crude and misleading, without explanation. There was no need for keeping it. Nevertheless it was kept and it showed on the dates specified in the indictment, under the heading “total mailed” a number of copies in excess of the usual circulation and on the next date, it showed this excess dropped. The explanation of this book was furnished to the government inspector but not the grand jury. | The heading “total mailed” was not intended to state'the number of copies that went through the post office. It meant simply the number of copies turned over to the mailing room to be sent out in such manner as the orders for the paper might re quire. A large potion of these papers were to go through the post office. . The traveling men carried out large numbers for use in extending circulation. A large number was sent out to ad vertisers as is the custom for the purpose of showing that their the file, and in many other ways thb copies which appeared on advertisements had been inserted. A large number was kept for this book as “total mailed” were properly disposed of. The postoffice kept its own weigher at The Journal office then as it does now. Everything that went through the mails was weighed by him and upon his weights the postoffice made up its bill for postage and this bill was paid. The book referred to was not used for the purpose of deceiving the postoffice officials, for no postoffice official ever saw the book, or knew that we had such a book, until it was voluntarily turned over by The Journal to a detective who spent considerable time in The Journal office last summer trying to find some irregularities. He was permitted to examine this book, which, as above stated, was nothing but an office memorandum, and was furnished every fact that he desired as far as The Journal could furnish them. The book itself was THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1911. fully explained to him verbally and in correspondence. The Jour nal not only made no fictitious entries, but it furnished the gov ernment detective the only record that it had which appeared to be distinctly against the paper and explained to him its character. This book was evidently used with the grand jury without any explanation. The truth as to its character must have been with held. Because it would not have been possible to obtain an indict ment if the grand jury had understood the character of this book, and the reason that it was kept. The fact that these special issues of the paper were to be sent out was widely advertised in the paper itself weeks in ad vance of publication and the postoffice officials knew exactly what we were doing and had no doubt, as The Journal had none, of our right to issue these special editions in the manner we did. No person on The Journal in position to know the facts was permitted to appear before the grand jury and explain to that body how the names were added for the special editions, or the character of the book referred to. The Journal was never in formed until the indictment was returned that any specific charges had been made or would be made against it. No demand was ever made for the payment of any additional postage. The indictment itself conveyed to The Journal officials the first knowledge that they had of any claim that insufficient postage had been paid for the months of October and November, 1908. When this indictment was found The Journal officials asked for an immediate hearing and filed a demurrer upon the ground that the indictment alleged no offense against the laws of the United States. Judge Newman, after a lengthy hearing and full considera tion, has sustained the demurrer and dismissed the indictment as to all parties. His opinion appears in this issue of The Journal; it rules that admitting everything charged in the indictment to be true, no law has been violated, and nothing wrong has been done. This is about all there is to the case. The Journal was right from beginning to end. It violated no law. It exercised no privi lege that was not granted by congress. It violated no regulation of the postal department, though it was so charged in the indict ment. It paid all the postage that was demanded and all that could have been properly demanded and was indicted on a charge that ought never to have been made, and of which The Journal officials were kept in ignorance until the indictment was re turned. ALFALFA IN THE SOUTH. Through recent reports from Washington, attention has been called to the widening interest in the growth of alfalfa and to the commercial value of this hardy and nutritious grass. Southern farmers and stock breeders are particularly concerned with its production as is indicated in letters received by the land and indus trial department of the Southern railway. From Washington county, Miss., comes the story of one planter who, on twenty-eight acres, has produced as a single crop over one hundred and sixty-eight tons of alfalfa at a net profit of one thousand, nine hundred and forty dollars. Another planter In east Tennessee has averaged five tons to the acre and has found a ready market for the forage at twenty-two dollars a ton. Os all states few, if any, has greater cause to be interested in the raising of this grass than has Georgia. Though virtually a new crop on this soil, it has more than justified the attention already given it, and bids fair to become one of the state’s best known har vests. Especially will this be true, as cattle raising and dairying claim their due share of activity. A recent writer on this subject declares; The western farmer will work Industriously the flrat year to secure ’ a Rood stand. Often he fails and has to replant the second year. The Georgia farmer will at least get from three to four cuttings from his alfalfa the flrst year, and It is not unusual to get from two to three cuttings within six months after the seed is in the ground. The Georgia I farmer will harvest from five to eight cuttings per am num—a ton to a ton and a half per ac»e p«fr cutting, after he gets his stand. Georgia growers estimate the total cost of producing a ton at two dollars and a half to three dollars and a half, which Includes the cost of baling. Alfalfa finds a ready market at from twelve dollars to eighteen dollars per ton, leaving a net profit of from mine and a half to fourtten dollars and a half. With a yield of from five to twelve tons per acre per annum the profit is easily calcu lated. The past few years have witnessed a remarkable awakening to the varied resources of Georgia soil, many of which have been neglected, if not unguessed. The growth of the pecan industry, the cultivation of wheat and other cereals, even the development of orchard interests, are all illustrative. As the full importance of diversified crops is realized, such industries will multiply and prom inent among them will be the raising of alfalfa. I THE SOUTH'S NATIONAL STRIDE. The Southern Commercial congress, which is to be held in At lanta on March 8, 9 and 10, is arousing keen interest, not only in this section, but throughout the union. This is only what might be expected, from the rich and liberal character of the program that has been devised. . The keynote of the convention is sounded in the title of tne ad dress with which president Taft will conclude the three days’ ses sion—“A Greater Nation Through a Greater South.” Whatever promotes the welfare of one part of this country, that is to say, the broad welfare of the people themselves, must be of interest, and in the long run, of benefit to every other part. Hence the present move ment to develop the south’s great opportunities in agriculture and industrialism, and in business at large, appeals to far-sighted men everywhere. America has become a world power. She depends largely upon the south for maintaining and strengthening this po sition. And the south, in turn, will realize her own opportunities and unfold her own resources largely in proportion as she assumes her share of national leadership. To develop such leadership is one of the prime aim® of the forthcoming congress, and so as broadly as the congress appeals to the country at large it finds a particularly eager response here among the southern states. CORN BREAD. Every patriotic American and, particularly, every true-blooded southerner, will rejoice over the tidings that a certain cloud, 1 which of recent years has hung over the character of corn bread, has been dispelled. • ‘ When or by whom that shameful gossip of corn bread being the cause of pellagra was started we do not know. Let his name be interred with the injustice he has done. It now suffices that a commission of experts, appointed by the legislature of the great cereal-producing state, Illinois, has reported, after a most searching inquiry, that corn is in no manner responsible for this mysterious disease. Illinois is the first state in the union to make an official investigation into the origin of pellagra. Its wise men and doctors are no nearer the real source of the nualady now than when they began their experiments, but they have rendered an inestimable service in showing that our good old honest friend, corn bread, is not to blame. Os all things that ever pleased man’s palate and reddened his blood, none is more wholesome than this hardy grain which, by birth, is as truly American as the Declaration of Independence, and, by use, as truly southern as fried chicken. Corn meal is as ver satile as it is democratic. The long and honorable line of dishes that have sprung from its hale batter would ruake a cook book of their own. The melting muffin, the delectable fritter, the portly dumpling that rollicks and bobs in its lake of pot liquor, the sleek and syrupy griddle cake —why, old King Cole, in his fattest years, never victualsed upon a richer variety than this same corn meal affords. We would not disparage the biscuit, but we believe that if men were called upon to make the painful choice between biscuit and corn bread, a majority of Georgians, at least, would espouse the latter. It is good to know that every shade of bad repute has been lifted from this honest diet. It would be as just to charge ’possum and sweet potatoes with being responsible for anarchy or long hat pins as to lay pellagra at the door of corn bread. China’s Motives Mmst Be As Great As China’s Mass Bp Bishop W. A. Candler Napoleon the Great warned christen dom of the danger of waking the sleeping giant of China; but nevertheless that gigantic nation is now more than half awake. Little as the average man among us thinks of the awakening of China, it is the most revolutionary and far-reaching movement in the earth at the opening of the twentieth century. The mere bulk of the population staggers the mind that undertakes to comprehend its great mag nitude. It is now known that the inhab itants of China number more than 440.- 000,000 of souls. Hitherto this fact has seemed a myth of the speculative statis ticians, but a recent census shows that the estimates which have put the popula tion of the Celestial Empire at 400,000,0ut' have been below rather than above the mark. And the Chinese are not a barbarous, nor an inferior, people. They are a heath en, but not a savage, people. Their philosophers are not inferior to the phi losophers of ancient Greece or ancient Rome. Indeed, many of the a,gnostlc philosophers resident in the Christian na tions today are not so profound in their systems of thought as are the thinkers of China. The Chinese, like all other Orientals, have been heretofore more philosophic than scientific in their intellectual en deavours. By consequence they are far behind the Occidental nations in matters of inventions and all the things which make for material greatness. But the events of the last decade have quickened interest and fired effort among them in this direction. Japan, located as an island kingdom in mid-ocean and washed by all the currents of modern commerce, learned mote quickly the knowledge which the Orientals are accustomed to bulk under the general term of "the Western Learning ”. The power of these acquisitions upon the part of the Japan ese was underestimated by the Chinese when the two countries went to war a few years ago. When Japan won such an easy and swift victory China was amased and shocked. After the lapse of a few more years the war between Japan and Russia came on, and again China was surprised beyond mesure at the strength displayed by Japan. These repeated shocks of war set China thinking. With serious, philosophic consideration the Chinese began to Inquire for the cause of the surprising strength of Japan, and the conclusion reached was that the source of that strength was in the “West ern Learning” which Japan had acquired. Forthwith there sprang up in China an unwonted seal for the same knowledge. Many thousand* of students flocked to the schools of Japan. Many more thou sands entered the mission schools of the churches. A very great number went to the schools and colleges of Eu rope and America. Not within historic times have men witnessed such an edu cational revolution; It has amounted to s national contagion, affecting all classes from highest to lowest One of the first /rults of the move ment is the national demand for a con stitutional government. The reigning dy nasty in China is not really Chinese, but Tartar, and very naturally the Re gent and the men about the throne have not been favourable to the demand for a parliamentary government But they have not been able to resist It In 1907 the Chlneee Imperial Court therefore, is sued an edict promising tn call a par liament in 1918. But that did not satis fy the people, and there has been a persistent agitation for the earlier in auguration of a constitutional govern ment. To appease the popular clamor a sort of Senate was constituted, com posed of 98 members of the imperial family and 98 representatives of the peo ple! But this hae not been enough. A great petition, asking for a more repre sentative form of government having been refused repeatedly by the Prince Regent, was sent to the Senate for its approval last October, amd to the amaze ment of all parties the petition was ap proved by the Senate most cordially, even many of the representatives of . the Imperial family In the Senate giving it their hearty support. A correspondent of the Japanese news paper published at Osaka and called the "MAINICHI" writing from Peking de scribes the occasion on which the pe tition was discussed in the Senate as follows: "More than ten members spoke, all Indorsing the petition tn the most emphatic terms. The galleries were filled to overflowing, most of those present being agitators who have been urging the Government to open a par liament immediately. When the pro posal was adopted these agitators burst into an enthusiastic demon stration of jubilation, clapping, their hands and shouting ‘Long live the Senate!’ ’* Such a scene in conservative China is most significant to <ll who know any thing about the Chinese government and people. It is almost incredible that such a situation should have come to pass so soon. Another Japanese newspaper com menting upon the mater says: "Heretofore we have been inclined to think that the clamor for an ear ly parliament In China came only from indiscreet agitators. The re cent act of the Senate puts this po litical movement in a somewhat dif ferent light. The Chinese Senate, which, in the event of the inaugura tion of a constitution, is to be come the upper house of the diet, consists at present of 196 members, of whom 98 are composed of mem bers of the imperial family and those chosen by the Government from among nobles, officials, schol ars, and highest taxpayers. Natural ly they constitute the conservative element in the Senate, and it was universally expected that they would not land ear to the clamor of polit- CHINA'S OPENED EYES Signs of China’s awakening continue to multiply. A few months ago the empire began a movement toward the reform of Its currency and its banking system. Now comes the news that it Is preparing to launch a great health campaign in which the first step will be an improvement of sanitary conditions. Invitations have been sent to all the leading nations of the world that they commission medical experts to go to China and study the plague that sorely besets the Orient. The United States has already cabled its minister at Peking with reference to this matter, and will probably, in the near future, delegate a number of surgeons from the marine hospital service. When a nation lays stress upon sound currency and adequate facilities of sanitation it is thinking in terms of modern civilization. This is what China is doing. Moreover, she is soon to inaugurate a representative form of government. Some time ago absolutism ceased to be more than a name in China. Provision is now made for a ministerial cabinet, an upper legislative chamber, and soon the people will be more or less directly represented in the making of the laws that govern them. It has taken the empire long time to open its eyes to the fact that time moves, and that customs are but garments that grow use less. But the awakening has undoubtedly begun. ical agitators. The remaining 98 members are representative of the people, that is, the local assemblies, and are more or less Inclined to be radical. Now the conservatives, in stead of exerting all their influence to defeat the move of the radicals, as we expected they would, showed no hesitancy in acting in unison with the latter and voting for the petition of the people. This is a situation the meaning of which it is not easy to Interpret. The petition demands the inauguration of a representative gov ernment a year hence, but such a radical proposal the Court will not accept. It is highly probable that the matter will end in a compromise, the Court promising to convene a parliament three or four yeu« hence.” It may be doubted if the Court can postpone the calling of the parliament as long as "three or four yeara” The agitation is too strong and too active to admit of so long a delay as that which the Japanese editor suggesta Nor is any compromise of the popular demand very probable. Revolutions do not go backward, and once they ac quire as much momentum as thia one has acquired, they generally move with accellerated velocity. Meanwhile it is known that China has begun the training of an' army and the creation of a navy. The begin ning is small, but it is significant nev ertheless. Th© task of makng an ef ertheless. The task of making an ef easy one to the peace-loving nation, but we may be sure that it will be accomplished. The difficulty of lan gage will greatly hinder the work; for a dialect is spoken ,in each province different from that spoken in any of the rest. A man in the province of Kiang-su, for finds difficulty in speaking to a man in the neighbor ing province of Cheh-kiang. The written language, however. Is read In all the provinces alike. Already, therefore, in the written language there is a channel of universal communica tion. But were the difficulty arising from the diversity of speech far mor4 formidable than it is, the Chinese, with their accustomed patient determina tion, would overcome It Nothing can hinder now a united China from ris ing up and asserting Itself among the nations of the earth. The sleeping giant has wakened, never to slumber again. And when he is fully aroused, and has become con scious of his strength, he will be a power for all the world to take ac count of. In China, not in Japan, is situated the real “yellow peril of the East” Japan is poor; but Cnlna* is rich. Japan has only about *0,000,088 people; but China has above 4*0,000,- 000. For centuries the Chinese have neglected, not to say despised the art of war, but there are chapters in the history of former times which show that they are not a cowardly people. If they decide that war is a thing to be carried on, they will wage it with the grim determination of a nation of fa talists. From all these facts it is evident that China is going to coma to a po sition of power. Will it be a bene? fleent power, or will it be malignant? That will depend upon the character of the motives which fill the heart «f the nation. If those motives become Christian and brotherly, China will be pacific and pacifying in the orient But if they are heathen and hostile, a blaze will start in China which will begin a world-conflagration. \lt is fortunate that very many or the better educated men of China have been educated in Christian schools. They are a leaven of peace in the huge, fer menting mass. But what are all of them among the rriyriads of their countrymen around (them? It is vastly important that their number be speedily increased by many thousands mor*. Christian missionaries, with their evan gelistic and educational enterprises in China, are the hope of mankind for the preservation of peace in that populous and powerful nation. Traders and “CONCESSION Alt IBS" in China are a menace to peace in the East They rob and cheat the Chinese to the point of irritation and riots of ten. Then, when they have incited riots by their misdeeds, they run to cover, while the infuriated mobs murder help less and unoffending missionaries, crying while they kill, "Death to the Chris tians!” To the untaught mob in China western costume Is the badge of a Chris tian, and they do not always discrimi nate between the designing and defraud ing trader, clad in western garb, and the benevolent and self-sacrificing mission ary similarly clothed. All westerners "look alike” to the Chinese, and many times have the servants of Christ been made to suffer for the sins of the ser vants of Satan in China. The Christian churches ar* rendering an Immeasurable service to all mankind by their work in the East, and especial ly by their Christian school* in China. They richly deserve the support of all good people in our land. It is a pity that among us there are so many ig norant people who do not appreciate • what these noble men and women are doing; It is a shame that a few are found capable of abusing them. But wisdom Is justified of her children, and the time is not far off when all men will see how great and world-saving is this work of the men and women who have exiled themselves to redeem a mighty nation from darkness and death. It would be a calamity of Japan educated China. Let any thoughtful man consider what that would mean. It would be almost as bad if any con siderable number of Chinese student* were educated in the godless, but rich, universities of our own and other land*. The cynical Mr. Wu, lately the Chinese ambassador at Washington, sneering at Christianity and all religion came from educational institutions of that A nation full of Wus would make th* world full of woes.