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CHRISTIANITY AND CHINA.

A MISSIONARY'S OPINION,

*

RAISING HELL FOR MORE THAN A

GENERATION.

PREMIER AND THE

FARMERS.

£500,000 MORE A YEAR FOR ROADS,

WAGES ACT" TO STAND.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Bald- win, when he addressed between 4,000 and 30,000 people at a Unionist fate in the grounds of Tregreham, the home of Mrs Par mall, near St. Austell, Cornwall, paid special attention to the agri- cultural problem. “

The Prime Minister said:

Missionaries have been "raising Successful in Spreading Doubt, hell for more than, a generation, "The missionary has been' mar- says one of them quite frankly, and vellously successful in spreading they are to-day at the bottom of a doubt. He has raised doubt about good deal of the disturbances in marriage customs, polygamy, and China, the Philippines, Indis, and polyandry in China and Tibet. And, South Africa the agitation against of course, monogamy in America the imperialism of governments, of comes in for its share of criticism race and religion." But it was to and questioning. He has raised be expected that they would rebel | doubts concerning the righteousness against things as they are, for, of the fourteen-hour day and the

There are many industries, I points out the Rev. James M. Yard, five-cent wage. He has questioned would say the majority in this in Unity (Chicago), Jesus was a the divine right of kings, and of country, which to-day are passing revolutionist, and twenty years ago parliaments and presidents and of through a grave time of difficulty. Gilbert K. Chesterton warned us capitalists."

There is no magic which can be that there was enough dynamite in Under the leadership of a mis-performed by Government which the social teachings of Jesus to blow sionary, in 1922, Dr. Yard tells us is going to make a depressed indus all modern society to rags. The the National Christian Council of try prosperous. It is very easy to missionaries took Jesus to China, Chinh set up a threefold standard make promises. We made several says Dr. Yard, and He destroyed for industry: one day of rest in at the last election. You may say the myth of white superiority. That seven; no child labour; adequate they were small promises, but they is one trouble in China. In spite of safeguard in factorica, both as re have been kept. the bombast of some recent des gards health and safety devices. patches from newspaper correspon. That started the labour movement. dents in Shanghai, the day of the Capitalism was challenged. Again: white man in China is done.". Dr. In October, 1926, the National Fard-is-a-Methodist-missionary,-and-Christian Council, a body made up Unity is a journal of the religion of both missionaries and Chinese, of democracy," liberal in its policy passed a long resolution dealing and views., Dr. Yard writes under with international relations. One the caption, "What Are the Mis paragraph of which reads: That sionaries Up To" According to the present treaties between China him they are up to a good deal and foreign Powers should be revis that may not be generally suspect.

ed on a basis of freedom and equality. That the missionaries ed of them.

dared to criticise the policies of their own government is exceedingly dangerous.

Many of the Universities in China and India have had, not old grandmothers with lace bonnets, büt red-blooded liberals, teaching-socio- logy, philosophy, and religion. These teachers have "filled Asia with new

ideas.

If Western scientific civilisa tion had been shaken to its founda tions by the new discoveries, it is Do wonder that people whose lives were governed by, conceptions and customs of the middle ages should be absolutely turned upside down by these modern teachings.

"Even worse than that, as far back as 1924, before there was much of any agitation on the matter of unequal treaties, some missionaries in North. China signed a resolution, a part of which follows:-

We, therefore, express our earnest desire that no form of military pressure, especially no foreigh military force, be exerted to protect or our property; and that

We undertook with regard to agriculture to hold a representative conference as soon as we came in with all parties concerned-owners, occupiers and labourers We at tempted to do that, but we were unable, because at that time the two agricultural workers' unions refused to join in the conference. That was not our fault.

We promised to continue to agriv cultural ratepayers the relief al- ready given during our term of office. We have kept that promise and made the relief permanent. We went a step beyond that by in- cluding farme buildings a relieving them of the larger part of their then ne actual value for rating

purposes.

We promised to promote small cottage holdings and allotments. La 1993 and 1996 we passed two Acts in implementing that promise, We promised to make available on easy tens the results of the latest scientific research. We have done that.

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If they buy unfavourably, and the world prices happen to fall be low the price paid under a forward contract, they could never in this country withstand the pressure of consumers to give them the benefit The effect of any miscalculation-in- of the subsequently lower price. handling a State monopoly would

mean that the loss would fall on

Burden of Rates,

We promised to take all prac-the taxpayer. in the event of our capture by law-ticable means to ensure that im- less persons or our death it their ported foreign produce should be

One of the things that probably hands, no money be paid for our sold as such. We did that in the release, no punitive expeditions be Merchandise Marks Act of last galls the agricultural industry We promised to develop the more than any other is the appall sent out, and no indemnity be exact sugar beet industry further. That ing and growing incidence of the we have done by the Act of 1925, local burden of rates. We have Can't Claim 'Credit for Everything. and I hope it may be possible to give substantial assistance in the see that industry bringing out matter of rates, Rates paid on "The missionary cen not, of valuable help to the West-country every property in rural areas have new and dangerous thought that and to the Midlands. course, claim the credit for all the as it has done already to the East increased four-fold in the last 30.

years. With the reduced assess have been brought into the 'heathen'

ment of agricultural rates, I do world. Business men, industrialists,

not think they actually have to pay philosophers, teachers, have all

much more than they did then. played their part: In China, John

(beers) Dewey and Bertrand Russell and the writings of Ibsen, Tolstoy, Darwin, and a hundred others. Novels, science, history, philosophy, religion.

"But, of course, in the end, that will prove a boomerang. For you cannot teach intelligent students to critiche one religion without teaching them to criticise all read' ligions. That is especially true to-day when we know so much about anthropology, "the development of society, and the history of religion.

We promised to develop affore- All religion has developed, evolved

station and dramage. We afforest- out of the childhood of the race.

ed more land inst year than has been done by any previous Govern; In their beginnings, all religions

ment, and we bave passed "s' Land Hall the cost of maintaining have much in common. The mission.

Drainage Act, and a Royal Com-roads and bridges has been taken aries did not intend it, but when

mission is sitting at present inves off the shoulders of the local rate- they raised bell with Buddhism, they

tigating the subject.

payers and placed on the Road also raised hell with Christianity.

"Heroic Remedies."

Fund. In the last two years the It was their avowed purpose to The East is awake! Supersti

Government have greatly increase break up Buddhism and Moham- tion is dying Ignorance is pass-facing a falling market. They are

Agriculturists are not alone in the mileage of the grant-aided medaniam. They tried to buttress ing away. Science is destroying not suffering more than the coal cost of maintenance of a large num roads by a grant of ore-fifth of the their own orthodoxy while breaking poverty. The White Peril is up the other man's orthodoxy. It less dreadful. Don't you wish you

were a missionary ?"

cannot be done.

K.C.'S 6-DAYS SPEECH. APPEAL CASE IN WHICH COSTS EXCEED CLAIM.

STRANGE WAYS OF A BERLIN POETESS.

BERLIN.

15 much 29

cultural customers.

trade and they have not suffered ber of rural roads at a cost of iron and steel. nearly £1,500,000 per annum, in Nothing could benefit agriculture addition to the large grants which more than that long-anticipated re- have been also given. viral of British home trade, be-

The Government have paid one SWINDLING FOR CHARITY. the country who are our best agri-quarter of the cost of the second. cause it is the industrial parts of

class roads and bridges-that is, We cannot ourselves, ne a Gov. the ordinary rural roads—in assis erament, see that any of the heroic tance of local rates. remedies which our opponents are I had a talk the other day with putting forward are going to be the Chancellor of the Exechequer of the slightest use to the occupy on this subject. We have decided ing farmer or labourer. The main to raise the proportion of one plank-in both Liberal and Labour quarter on the second-class roade policies relates to the tenure of to one-third, at a cost of another land. There is a great misconcep£500,000 a year, and to make this tion there.

applicable from "April·lat last. The misconception is that the

Quite definitely the Government form of tenure lies at the root of is not going to interfere with the agricultural prosperity or depres Agricultural Wages Act. Under I think what lies at the root that Act wages are fixed by agree- is the question of prices and economent between masters and men. I She wheedled all her savings out mie causes. of a shop girl and used the money to buy a harmonium which she pre- and is happening now must cou By the experience of other coun What has happened in the past that arrangement is working well: believe in most parts of the country

took a poor child to the seaside of tenure. The more the tenure i fit the men who receive them; bat sented to, & Aursing home. The Linue to happen whatever the form tries good wages do not only bene

The hearing before the House of Lords of the case Mathews ... Lek, arising out of a dispute in connec tion with the insurance of a lost An extremely plain servant girl, collection of postage stamps, which with thin hair parted in the middle began on a Monday morning, was and fastened in a hard knot, ap- still in progress on the following peared before & Berlin court to Friday afternoon when Lord Sum- answer charges of swindling. ner asked Sir Leslie Scott, K.C., who was still engaged in opening for Mr. Mathews, one of the under- writers, if he could give some in- dication of when he was likely to finish. Sir Leslic replied that he hoped to conclude the next Tues day.

Lord Summer: What? Six days

She sat orying while lawyers and doctors discussed her difficult case, The difficulty was that she swindled for charity. akmen

sion,

Stabilization of Prices.

(Cheers.)

to open's case in the House of and, in order to get the money to based on the Government, it seems they benefit the men who pay them, Lords You must, of course, tako give the little creature good health, to me, the worse off the occupier because the work is done better: your own course.

Lord Phillimore indicated that he passed herself off as a student will be he had other engagements after of theology and niece of a chap next week, and Sir Leslie replied lain, and thus managed to swindle that he had been doing his best, and would continue to do so. He felt as ashamed that a case in the House of Lords should take.

as their lordships soomed to think he should feel, but he had condens ed it as much as he could.

& number of people.

When Mr. Baldwin turned to his The main benefit from the policy next subject, someone interjected, pi It was proved that all her ill-of nationalisation would accrue to What about national economy?

is We are gotten gains had been devoted to those land-owners who already find Mr. Baldwin replied: maintain good works, and the the burdens of ownership greater doing all we can through a com- judge spoke with feeling about her than its financial reward, which is mittes of the Cabinet biting tre far from being the result which the quently and applying pressure, posms

Fraulein" he said. your advocates of nationalisation have week in and week out, to every

department.?

This is an action in which Mr. Foom on Spring in Hospital is in mind. Lek claimed £42,240 for the loss so beautiful and your Verses to

The Trade Disputes Bill was an We all agree it would be a great from a bedroom of a Berlin hotels Cat so pretty that, really, thing if we could ensure a uniform attempt to prevent the abuse of of his collection of postage stamps, Fraulein, you must not again do and steady level of prices, but power which showed itself in the And it occupied 30 days before Mr the things you have been doing." have never yet discovered a method general strike,

e and added M Justice Branson, who gave judg- The fate of the poetess seemed to by which you can put this idea Baldwin: ment for the underwriters, and 14 depend the issue of a quarrel into practice that is not free from

Despotism is just as ugly a thing days in the Court of Appeal, where between two doctors, one of whom serious objection The experience when it comes from a trade union a majority of the Lorde Justices maintained that she was a bad girl, of the Wheat Commission in the as when it comes from a Govern- reversed his decision and awarded and the other that she was war showed the extreme difficulties ment. We register our condemns- Mr. Lek 233,000. Against this de- suffering from a disesse of the of a public authority undertaking tion of the tyrannical exercise of cision Mr. Mathews, one of the mind in which she assumed the per- & policy of over-peas purchase. You power in this Bill For the underwriters, has appealed to the sonality of the person whom her cannot escape from the dilemma leaders of the Labour Party to sulk that if an importing authority in their tenta and say they will House of Lords.

imagination had conjured up. The costs are said already to ex-The court, howevery cut short the buys cheaply, they bring down the never talk peace until the Act is repealed is the conduct of children seed the amount of the claim, and quarrel by sending her to prison price for the home producer....

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