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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JUNE 12TH, 1909.
DECLARATION OF FUTURISM.
A REMARKABLE DOCUMENT.
We have reveived from Milan a gironlar which states that the International Review Parafa, has founded a row School of Literaturs under the name of "Futurism," the objects of which are declared to be as follows:-
We intend to glorify the love of danger, the custom of energy, the strength of daring.
2. The essential elements of our poetry will be courage, audacity and revolt.
3. Literatura having up to now glorified though at the aggressive movement, the thoughtful immobility, ecstasy and slumber, we feverish insomnia, running, the perilous loup the cuff and the blow.
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We declare that the splendeur of the world he beca antiched with a new form of beauty, the beauty of speed: A ruce-automobile adorned with great pipes like serpents with breath, a raco-automobile which seem: explosive exploding powder is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.
5. We will sing praises of man bolding the fly-wheel of which the ideal steering-post traverses the earth impelled itachi around the circait of its own orbit.
the
6. The poet must spend himself with warmth txilliancy and prodigality to augment the fervour of the primordial elements.
There is no more beauty arcept in struggle. No masterpiece without the slamp of aggres siveness. Poetry should be a violent assault against unknown forces to summon then to
lie down at the feet of man.
B. We are on the extreme promontary of ages! Why look back sinos we must break
the mysterions, doors of Impossibility
We stredy Time and Space lied restorday.
MR CHIROL ON THE TIMES"
Mr. Chirol, the Eititor of the Tims Foreign Department, and Dr. Morrison, the Paking Cor- respondent were guests at the inaugural linner of International Journalists. Association of Japutt.
Mr. Chirol's health was proposed by Mr. obse, Editor of the Asahi Shimbun, who dwelt at some length on the exalted place occupied by The Times and on the immense influence wielded hy it as the King of journals. reply said.
Do
bounds over all the stages which Western coun- representative Englishmen of all shades of opin- tries have covered in conturies of slowly grad- ion, and often distinguished foreigners also do uated and almost imperceptible transformation. not hare recourse to the hospitality of The When anco Japan surrendered her policy of Times for an opportunity of placing their views that hospitality invariably isolation and threw herself upon the great un record, and that world-current of life, she was bound to yield afforded to all those who, in the opinion of the herealf up in some measure to the spirit of Editor, can in any way claim to make a useful individualistic competition which however alien contribution to the discussion of any question of to lier own traditions has been one of the main public interest, whether they may be on the side generating forces of Western civilisation. It of The Tivics or against it. The Editor under takes no responsibility for the substance of ench rests with the rising generation in Japan, with Mr. Chirol in the generation that was born and has grown up letters but he nevertheless holds him fully res since the beginning of the era of Meiji permanponsible for their genuineness and beneles. In circumstancos would a Jotter sent an For many years before I ever came to Janently to reconcile the Westeru and individual. I bad taken a keen interest in the remordoable istio conception of life with the great traditions onymously to the Editor obtain publication, nor history of her recent evolution, but it was during which they haws inherited from old Jupan. would any letter be publishel that was obviously the first visit which I paid to this country in The veteran leaders of Meiji had to wage a severe written to serve personal interests o personal malies. If for reasons which appoir sufficient 1895-just 14 yours ago that the interest struggle against the aurasoning conservatism which I had hitherto felt as a student of socio of the old spirit of Bushido in order to throw their to the Editor the writer prefers to write over an assumed name rather than over his own logy ripened into genuine alairation and con- country open to the stimulating influences of fidence in har future. What chiefly impressed car Western civilisation. Upon the following signature, the public feels nevertheless just as me at the time was not so much the warlike generations will, I imagine, derolvo a task scarcely fully assured of the leone fides of the letter as the qualities nor even the admirable efficiency and less difficult and assuredly not less lofty andy writer doos that his identity will never he the great powers of organization which Japan that of preserving against the rising tide of betrayed. The echamns of The Timer in which and just dispayed in her war against Chian, but Western influences all that is best in the dd letters to the Editor appear, constitute an in the wonderful self-restraint with which the
portant national record of all shades of public opinion in roga d to every great controvérsial whole uation had borne the severe trial to its patriotic pride that. hail followed so quickly upon
question of our times bocunse of the respon the flush of victory. I cannot imagine a more
sibility of its successivo editors has come to ke searuling test than that to which the character
universally accepted in all cases as an absolute guarantee beyond challenge or appeal, of the Japanese people was subjected when few day after the Treaty of Shimonoseki Japan was compelled under pressure from Russia, France and Germany to surrender a large part of the fruits of a brilliantly conducted campaign Your statesmen, however, wisely decided that Japan was, not then in a position to offer material resistance to the forces of which these thres Powere disposed, and that there was ther for no alternative but to yield to their demands, With scarcely a marmur, the whole nation. trusting to the wisdom of its leaders, acquiesced work for the future which in due course wa 20
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Bushido spirit.
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That is a task, gentlemen, in which the press of Japan can, I am sure, and will play a most important and beneficent part. At the same titie none of the Western institutions which you have acclimatised o
so rapidly and so successfully in Japan, is more opon to the temptations which beest the civilisation of the West, more liable succumb to the asterialistic influences of the competition for wealth. There is medern in Western countries both a higher and lower conception of the functions of the public Much, I firaly believe, will depend for the future of Japan on the choice of the path which Japanese journaliste alect to tread Journalism, you will be told by some, is inerely forin of commercial enterprise and the journalist
His only business is to produce the wares signally to dress the balance in favor of will help to sell his paper, just as it is the only Japan's legitimate ambitions. It was the splen-siness of a weaver fe produse staff or of did temper of the Japanese people in those ta arkit. pardener to prodinus vegetables that will trying days that woll, as
If I have permitted myself to lay special stress upon the importance of this "deep sense of responsibility, it is. Gentlemen, be cause every journalist. however humble his cultivate it, and because I sphere, cau
am profoundly convinced that it alone can secure not the Beeting popularity but the permanent power and prestige of a newspaper, and it alone can enable a newspaper to discharge what I conceive to be its duty towards the nation. It would be ille for me to attempt to praise or to criticise the Japanese press, as owing to my
Hive in the Absolute for we have already created in their decision, and set itself resolutely to is merely the vendor of a sortain clays of ich lamentable ignorance of your language,
the omnipresent eternal spood,
9. We will glorify war-the only true bygiene of the world-militarism, patriotism, the destructive gesture of anarchist, the beauti. ful ideas which kill, and the scorn of woman.
10. We will destroy maseums, libraries and sad all fight against moralism, feminism utilitarian cowardice.
it we can the great masses agitated by Pork, Pleasure or rovelt; we will sing the malticoloured and polyphonic surf of revelations in modern capitals; the nocturnal vibration of amenals and looks beneath their glaring electric moons; greedy stations devouring smoking esponts, factories hanging from the clouds by the threads of their smoke: bridges like giant gymnasts stepping over sunny rivers spackling Fiks diabolical cutlery; adventurous steamers acenting the horizon; large breasted locomotives bridled with long tubes, and the dippery Bight of aeroplanes whose propeller has fag- terings and applauses of enthusiastic arowds.
It is in Italy that we harl this overthrowing and inflammatory declaration, with which to-day we found Futurism, for we will free Italy from her numberless museums which cover her with countless cometries.
Museums, cometries! Identical truly, in the unior to each other. Fablic dormitories, sinister promiseousness of so many objects is for ever alumbering beside hated or
where one
unknown beings. Reciprocal ferocity of paint
ers and sculptors murdering each other with blows of form and colour in the same museum,
the
Ray, my admiration all. Itis only concorn, should therefore be to
for Japan and my confidence in her future for consult the tasts of those for whom he has to in that splendid temper I saw the strongest cater, and if their taste is degraded, the responsi: possible proof of character, and, in a nation as tity rests with them and not with him. If in an individual, character is the one essentis! they want to be amused rather than instructed, quality onregge, tempered by wisdom, texnolity if they prefer the spicy food of irresponsible
I can at end hand. Journalist from a country where the press has struck older and perhaps "deeper root and may therefore claim to with greater influence than in say other, what I coaesire to be the true functions. I have. I fear, detained of the public press
claim' no knowledge of it except at All I could do was to indicate, as a
you already too long, and I will conclude by merely expressing the hope and the belief that and of frivolous to press, by enltivating that more wholesome fare which appeals to the honourable sense of responsibility which I hold tempered by moderation, the consciousnoss of one's strength, and at the same time of the intellect and stimulates thought, it is not for to be the cornerstone of sound journalient, will limitations of one's strength, the recognition the journalist to gainsay them. All he has to prove to be a great moral and intellectual force that every right we claim implies corresponding do is, as in every other business, to supply the both for the education of the new Japan and for duties which we have to discharge, and that demand Gentlemen, that is not so. I will not the preservation of all that in most precious in very privilege which we may enjoy, whether of deny that the financial aspects of newspaper enter the traditions of the old Japan. birth or of education, of power or of wealth, price sre of primary importance. The financial involves corresponding responsibilities, equ
of form of human activity are of nimity in good and in evil fortune, self control and is
primary to the portance. Good finances are essential government of a State, and they are equally essential to the making of a good newe- paper. Bat only as a nicans to an end--not the all in all of journalism. For I look upon journal of lism as one of the chief educational forces in! cur modern world. In every civilised state the greatest importance is to-day very rightly attached to the education of the
young, for tho those who are at school to-day will be nation of to-morrow. Surely at lows import. ance attaches to the education of the adnit members of the nation, and that is the task which to a very large extent devolves upon the educates public opinion Now, what is admit press, which not only from day informs, but
the elements which constitute character,and Japan has shown that she possesses many of them in a very high degree.
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But, gentlemen, the character of a nation is of no sudden growth. It is the outcome of sentiments and traditions matured from gener- ation to generation through centuries. Those Japan to win so high a place for herself in the qualities of character which have enabled new world; have, I firmly believe, bess for the most ever rapidly and successfully you have adopted and adapted to your own needs the appliances That a yearly visit be paid there as one visits of Western civilisation, the spirit which has
enabled the We en grave of dead relatives, once a year! Appliance sent generation to wield these toy the most vital feature in the education of
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purpose is are ready to grant it! That an annual offering
generations who of flowers be laid at the feet of the Gioconda, we still the spirit of older conceive it! But to take for a daily walk knew nothing of western civilisation. Close through the museums, our spleen, lack of as is the contact, moral and intellectual andektedly of 19ry
as well as material, which has already been sourage and morbid restlessness, we will established between your civilisation and para; to thing of yet greater importance, the
Why it will you d wil you poise yourselves in it is still of much too formation of character, whatever an old picture except the artist's laborions substantially affected the inherited character of able the school curriculum, howeror, learned the nation. Yet that such close contact se contortions, straggling to overcome the insupur. Japan has already established with our Weat and experienced the professors, however soiouti- te the equipment, education will fail of its chief ablo baziers over resisting his desire to express civilisation--a contact which is bound to become abjest which is the production of good
charsoter his entire dream?
old picture is to pour our senti.closer and closer-must ultimately have a very unless it at the same time trained citizens, To admire an
faners are instead of hurling it ment into a forth in violent gushes of action and pro tiveness. Wal you thus consume your best strength in this useless admiration of the pot from which you will forcibly come out exhausted, lessened and trampled?
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profound effect upon the national character of the child-that is to say unless it lays the cannot possibly be doubted. Will its effect be foundations of self-control and self-sacrifice, of for better or for worse? That rooms to me to integrity and trathfulness, of fortitude and be the greatest of all problems in regard to the patience upon which is built up the greatness future of Japan. Gentlemen, none can be more of a nation. The same may be rightly said. proud than I am of the vast achievements of of the public press. However excellent may be Western civilisation. I believe it to have the news service of a paper, however brilliant In truth, this daily frequenting of museums,
pen its writers may wield, however, libraries ad academics (those grave yards of been an immense influence for good in the vain offerte, those monat cairaries of orncified history of the world. But I am not blind to-date all its technical appliances, it will
have fastened upon it dreams; those registers of broken-down springs) to the evils which
that to it is committed the unceasing task, is to the artist as the tos prolonged guvern- anul from some of those evils at any ruto fall short of its highest, mission if it forgets
old Japan had remained singularly
and year ont, of moulding the character year ment of parents for intelligent young people, The extraordinary developments of industry of the nation by example as well By: by precept. inebriated with their talent and ambitions will.
For the dying, invalids and prisoners, let it commerce and finance in Western countries are The responsibilities of the press in this respect. are in proportion to the power which it wields. it pass. Perhaps the admirable past acts largely due to the splendid conquests achieved ass salve on their wounds, se the fature is by the human mind in the domain of science, and everywhere its power has increased during and their beneficent effects in many directions the last century by leaps and bounds and is still debarred them for ever. But we will have none of it, we the young, the strong, the living are beyond dispute. But they have also for-increasing. But nowhere, if I may be permitted
tunately had other less happy consequences. to say so.
of the press ap does the responsibility futurists
Therefore welcome the kindly incendiariste The vast expansion of economic resources which
Japan where a stupendous social revolution his with the carbon fingers! Here they are! Hore! has in many waye ministered to all that is lust par to nis to be greater than in a country like Away and set fire to the book shelves: Turn in our Western civilisation has undeniably tanded transformed the material conditions of the as towards a dangerously materialistic conception tional life within the lifetime of such as myself. the canals and flood the vaults of museutas!
of life. The production of wealth has come so maden a transformation which has after all
and Oh! Let the glorious old pictures fost adrift! Seize pick-ure and harmor! Sap the founda of both palionai sud individual life. Yet it be been the work of only an enlightened minority, necessarily involves a greater disparity of know. tions of the venerable towns!
The oldest amongst us are thirty; we have not diminished but widened the breach between lodge and therefore of experience and judg very rich and the very poor, and it has mant between the different classes of the com thus at least ten years in which to accomplish rather imported a new element of jealousy munity than is to be found at present in other and antagonism into the relations between When we are forts, let others younger and class and class. Thus on the one het countries where as in England the whole more daring men throw as into the waste-paper has, engendered hatred and malice in the hearts body politic has mored for centuries along the same line of thought under a momentam more basket like useless manuscripte!... They will of the majority who toil, and it undoubtedly ex less common to all classes. Insofar ther fore come against us from far away, from every tends to breed amongst the minority who as the Japanese press has to minister to the where, leaping on the cadence of their first poems, clawing the air with crooked fingers and possess a love of Inxury and ease and self education of a large proportion still largely an Old Japan, if I have read of your history oright tence to which the country as a whole is now scenting at the academy gates the good emell of indulgence which say the abre of -e nation familiar with the new conditions of social exis our decaying minds already promised to the
went to the other extreme, Wealth, except as irretrievably committed, its responsibility is, I intucombe 01 Libraries.
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very But we shall not be there. They will fin us
other countries that have already grown old in social rank, was regarded with indifference and hold, even greater than that of the press of Itself a at last, on a winter's night, in the open country, in a sad iron shed pitter-pattered by the mono almost with contempt. Those who were engag. the ways of Western civilization.
ed in its production were relegated to a very low product of Western civilisation, it can ast tonous rain, haddled round our trepidating place in the social hierarchy. The Japanese before the nation an example of what is beat in aeroplanes, warming our hands at the miserable fire made with our present-day books dickering conception of life though cramped by many that civilisation or of what is most base in it. artificial conventions was on the whole based It may give a daily object-lesson of independence merrily in the sparkling flight of their images.
upon lefty ideals of social duty, which tended
Every news- They will muting around us, panting with
restraint or of the reverso.
in anguish and spite, exasperated one and all by mareover to the suppression rather than to the and integrity, of thoughtfulness and self our proud dauntless courage, they will rash to Assertion of the individu 1.
In no other direction, gentlemen, is the paper writer is thus, it seems to me,
his own sphere a trustee for the conscience kill us, their hatred so much the stronger se
of transformation so stupendous and of the nation, and in still higher degree process their hearts will be overwhelmed with love and
of a newspaper. For the editor every. editor admiration for us! And powerful and health. fraught with so much danger to the national some Injustice will then burst radiantly in their character us that which Japan is now going is responsible not only for his own work but for through in the field of industry, commerce everything which he admits into the columas of oyes. For art can only be violence, cruelty, and and Brance. It is a field which no modern his paper. Perhaps you will allow nie to illust injustice.
The oldest amongst us are thirty, yet we have siste can neglect, but it is a field full of rate my meaning by reference to the paper with which I have the honour of being connected- treasures of pitfalls. Japan has invaded it with the same already squandered treasures, strength, love, daring and eager will, hastily, energy and intelligence which she has displayed especially as the two points to which I propose in every other field of human activity. Great to refer lie entirely outside of my own province. raving, without reckoning, never stopping, financial institutions have been created for the One is the recognised position which The Times breathlessly.
as the urgin of the great financial and.. commercial combinations have been formed. heart is not in the lasst wears! For it has been great industrial cities have sprung up as it were London. It owes that position drst and fore- nonrished on fire, hatred and speed!... You
out of the ground. Without them Japan could most to the fact that it has never allowed a its ure astonished? It is because you do not even
not have stood the economic strain of the hay shade of a shadow of doubt to be cast upon
absolate integrity. sacrifices imposed upon her for the fulfilment of
On all
all questions connected Erect on
has spoken with- more hurl forth our defiance to the stars.
new social atmosphere to which produced
out fear and without favour, not in the interests Your objections? Enough! Enough! I know
of this or the clique nor for the promotion them! I quite understand what our eplendid the nation still has to adjust itself, Whilst the
sum total of national wealth has unquestionably of this or that enterprise, but in what it has and mendacious intelligence asserts. We are,
increased, it has brought in its train an incress believed to be the best in erels of the whole it says, but the resalt and continuation of our ing disparity in its distribution amongst the community and therefore its voicealwaye com- anuskrs-Perhaps Be it so! What of that?ifferent classes of the community it has created mands respect and often carries decisiva weight. But we will not listen! Beware of repeating now standards of comfort and inxury, it has led Another conspicuous feature of The Finca is such infamous words! Bather hold your head up?
to the accumulation in a few great industrial the correspondence «hich appears in its columns Erect on the pinnacle of the world we hurl centres of labouring massos severed from all not from its paid contributors but from members forth once more our defiance to the stars!
the old restraints and influences of Japanese of the general publje. Not a single important FT. MARINETTI, life. Within the life time of aringle generation question arises, whether religious, social or Editor of Pocsia. Japan seems to have travelled by leaps and economic, scientific or literary upon which
remember living acle of the world, we once or national destinies. But they have inevitably with commerce and finance,
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