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THE ASIATIC PROBLEM.

IMPROVEMENT OF EASTERN CONDITIONS.

of self-realization' on the part of Americans and Asiatics alike. If instincts are allowed to rule, there is bound to be a dis astrous struggle of brute force workingas modern commercialism and modern militaris. But the. solution can he transferred from the domain of human instinct and i passion to the domain of human

reason.

Professor W. E. Ritter, of the University of California, speaking at the recent meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, gave a graphic des- eription of the "Yellow peril" as it appears to the eyes of science.

one great inducement to He defined the North Pacific Asiatic migration to America, area as including, not merely the namels, the grinding poverty great worth ocean itself. with its under which the great masses of islands. but those parts of the hand labourers of Asia live at adjacent continents. Asia and home. He perceives three occur. North America, whose rivers flow rences which offer hope in this into the ocean. He maintained direction. These

SCIENCE AND POVERTY. Professor Ritter urges than ani effor: must be made to remove the

tion

are: The

that the part of the earth so de-revised Covenant for the League fined was a unit area of popula-of Nations (which will surely soon tional listribution as much as of be adopted if reason is indeed now physical geography.The situa- to be enthroned in the govern

is." he said.

"that ment of the world), making the in this region some 500,000.-League the central body for co- 000 Asiatics are being brought ordinating and promoting interna. into ever closer contact withftional activities generally: the some 6,000,000 of Ameri-1 provisions of the Covenant cans, the Asiatics being so placed relating to Labour problems geographically that scores of mil-which are international in scope: tions of them have about the low-and the determination by the ext per capita allotment of any American Federation of Labour) people on the earth of some of at the Atlantic City convention the primary material necessities to

co-operate with Japanese

of human life, while the Ameri-workers for bringing about under- cans are so placed as to give standing between working men them about the highest of such of Japan and the United States. allotment," Economic equili- "A thing that science can say, brium, the Professor thinks, will concludes the professor. "which establish itself between these twu ought to contribute much as an peoples as certainly as when two initial step in this direction, is bodies of salt water of different that the civilized world may as density come in contact.

sure itself that, given adequato The character of the American scientific investigation of the re- legislative measures proposed or sources of nature, and given a actually carried out against due measure of scientific know- Asiatic immigration shows that ledge and of the spirit of justice the issue is one, not of race, but and inurality in politics and law in of economic conditions. The national and international affairs, measures apply only to Asiatics and given, fürther, a due sway of who live by the toil of their hands reason in the growth of popula- and upon whom economic con- tion, and no people of the world ditions at home press irresistibly, need live in danger of starvation Asiatic-

are men and or even of serious want. The students, travel widely over the proposition in surely susceptible contineut, and raingle freely and of something approaching demon-1 pleasantly with the American stration that the dogma of the] citizens. It is the Asiatic who is inevitability of material poverty, barely able to find money for the for great sections of the world's cheapest passage across the population, is a mark of primitive- ocean. and who competes withness, of immaturity, of human local labour, as soon as he lands, societies.

who

that is the real problem. So long "To develop the natural re- As there exists an immense sources of the whole Pacific area, Asiatic population in a semi- of lend and water alike, and then! destitute condition, and so long to distribute and use the fruits; as there exist alluring chances in obtained in such fashion that all Pacific America for relieving that the

populations shall be situation, it is hardly possible beneficiaries in just ratio, would that any device of politics or law ba exactly

one of the most

will stem the tide. In March, 1919, characteristic things which these 5.000 Asiatics entered the Pacific people could do as rational-i.e., States of Mexico, and the total as truly human-animals." immigration to that country last

year was 100.000. Entrance into

Pacific Mexico means entrance

into Pacific United States sooner A POLICE-COURT EMPORIUM, or later.

A vänload of furniture, lino-

-Professor Ritter warns Ameri. [leumi, blankets, clothing, rolls of cans and Jananese wlis ar in wallpaper, and miscellaneous polite perplexity over the crow-articles was removed to Roches. ing breach in the frad fans! ter Police-court recently in con- Sandship between the Thirvi | pection), with charges of thebi labas, and Japan that theil will preferral against the man who is much more than a "little cloud were remanded. It was said that overhanging the sky."

the goods came from a new home į It is a rigantic impending which is being established by the tornado What are involved Salvation Army in Mudstone. the terr fi forces of the road. The articles were carted "instincts of preservation and away in broad daylight.

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The Rev. R. W. Cummings (Vicar of Hurst Lancashire). writes to a Home paper-

If the reports of the recent con- ference on "Religion and Labour” are'. 8 correct index of the discussion, they are

the record of a lost opportunity. Neither the speech of Mr. G. N. Barnes, M.P., nor that of Mr. H. F. Stead, shows an intelligent appreciation of the existing stage of the problem and both of them appear to evince the desire to base the Religion of Labour" on the platonic metaphysical idealism now challenged in every depart- ment of modern science.

The immense debt that Labour and human progress generally Owe to the Materialists" is worthy of a more generous re- cognition than it has yet received. It is the futility of a religion of mere subjective metaphpysical ideatism that needs emphasis to day. It has been the so-called materialists who, by the methods of scientific economic reorganisa- tion, have shown to a fumbling) idealism the method by which justice and fellowship could be. woven into the physical texture of man's earthly life. And it is

the accredited champions of Idealism who are the foremost defenders of the pitiless and illogical competitive system which Labour knows it must destroy, that it may rescue the soul of the world.

Before we can appreciate what the "Religion of Labour is likely to be we must realise that the Labour movement is only in- cidentally an economic revolution. Fundamentally it is the practical expression, in the field of politics. of a newly emerging philosophy of life that has scant reverence for the beliefs and thought-forms moulded and shaped out of the imperfect and

even erroneous

knowledge of the pre-scientific period. With perfect courage, candour, and intelligence it is going to think out all the im- plications of historic materialism.

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Whether this religion will be definitely Christian or not will depend on the intellectual honesty and spiritual candour of the Church's leaders: the present outlook is not hopeful. We shall not affect the matter by abusing "materialism." If we would be helpful we had better accept the modern materialist move- ment, as of God, and, follow- ing the Divine method" of: the incarnation, weave or incar nate into it the ideals of fellow- ship and service and love. For only by weaving these ideals into the material fabric of the common life can we change them from the disembodied ghosts they are to-day into physical embodimezis of the attributes of God.

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