hers. The day she has it depends largely on herself and on those men
and women of ideals and of ideal lives, whether Spaniards, Americans,
or her own who march with the uncrowned monarchs of the race, not
towards the spoils, but the toils of each day, head high, hearts light,
because pure from greed and remorse.
A free people not in name but in reality.
We have Clubs galore, English, German, French, Spanish, Filipino, the
“University Club” and the “Columbia,” this last especially for young
men. These clubs would compare favorably with those of other cities of
our size.
Politically the islands have taken strides since the opening of the
“Philippine Assembly,” a body of men which has done credit to itself
already. The future of the islands, its prosperity lies along two
lines, mainly education and the agricultural development. Many rich
Filipinos are sending their sons to the States to be equipped for the
modern struggle, in both.
Our Judiciary is highly praiseworthy, our Supreme Court we are very
proud of.
The “Philippine Commission” has had men of considerable talent, men
of opportunity and availableness and its rule has not we believe been
stained with any greater faults, or crimes, than that of most governing
bodies. And it has been distinguished by much work well done.
Some witty foreigner has said:
“America is rather old to give as an excuse for her blundering that she
is young,” behind that sarcasm as behind all there is just a stinging
grain of truth. Our blunders as our self-assurance, the latter very
largely responsible for the former are often as amusing as instructive
to lookers-on of older civilizations, especially to those of the East,
who like the grandmother with the small boy, are startled and perplexed
at all the fancied improvements, she having spelt out that wonderous
word “life” which is the most bewildering in its meaning, some time
since.
The aged granddame the Orient is being taught by a somewhat flighty
and exceedingly imperious and headstrong youngster and she smiles
through her wrinkles often a superfine smile as she has seen so many
toy inventions and toy states rise, fall and even pass from memory
while she still lives on. She enjoys the spectacle of western sweat and
energy and she watches as all age does to see what sort of beings this
fancied superiority has produced. It is no wonder she still keeps on
smiling as she sees the pitiful result of so much dazzling modernism
and exquisite theories and grandiloquent faith shattered the moment
you touch its adherents. It is a very, very old story as old as when
woman first bore the transgression for herself and for man and through
her patience and heroism brought atonement. But the sun still rises in
splendor over Manila and we hope and wait and long, as they have since
the first whiteness followed the first darkness--for the day. There is
late talk of giving up the task America has set herself in the East.
If she does, it will be another sign of the triumph of those qualities
which are disintegrating her life at home, greed, ambition, social,
religious and political, the unsatisfied passion for pleasure which
makes her one of the most lawless and frivolous modern Nations.
If you touch an orange it will roll over but many shocks will not turn
a world out of its orbit, for it is held in the hand of One, who can
guide a tangent, quite as well as a steady methodical body, and who can
remove at will a whole astral system. What the future holds is one of
the most solemn enigmas but only what America is can she put in here
and “would it were worthier.”
Across the East the dawn is coming, not because the West is come to
teach her new forms of greed and ambition, but because the forces
within her, the eternal primeval elements are stirring and forming in
the combinations which mean life.
Within her will come her salvation, not from without, from the Oriental
himself will come the best of his future.
Western civilization has failed to produce on any large scale, noble
character, the East knows it. It has watched the falseness of the state
craft, the greater falseness of its religious love of aggrandizement,
it has seen in the adherents of the latter no reason to choose them as
a pattern, quite the contrary.
The simple truthful faith of Christ whose ethical teachings are so
direct, so free from sophistry, a child might read it has been and is
today, the excuse for the darkest crimes. Said one of the leaders of
the Christian faith in Japan, “It is only with sinking heart one can
point to a faith which bears such fruits, when the so-called heathen
can teach us any day conduct which outshines ours as the sun a glow
worm.” From within must come the truth of God in her own soul as men
are every day more powerless to live it or teach it, though the truth
remains eternally vital.
May the God of light guide this great, glorious Orient into a future of
illustrious achievement and untarnished ideals.
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Transcriber’s Notes
Errors in punctuation have been fixed.
Page 20: “a a few” changed to “a few”.
Page 23: “gates of Pyengyang” changed to “gates of Pyongyang”
Page 24: “The guage” changed to “The gauge”
Page 30: “Greek panitings” changed to “Greek paintings”
Page 31: “evening entertaiment” changed to “evening entertainment”
Page 46: “mayor it justly” changed to “mayor is justly”
Page 51: “Uyeno and Ochadomidzu” changed to “Uyeno and Ochanomidzu”
Page 69: “House of Purs” changed to “House of Peers”
Page 71: “I revisted” changed to “I revisited”
Page 76: “electricity, manufactury” changed to “electricity,
manufactory”
Page 85: “very unsatifactory” changed to “very unsatisfactory”
Page 86: “I belive” changed to “I believe”
Page 104: “bastian like walls” changed to “bastion like walls” “in
crsytal” changed to “in crystal”
Page 106: “a Nation possesss” changed to “a Nation possess”
Page 132: “Fábrica de piauos” changed to “Fábrica de pianos”