To the Editor of the "NontH-Cuina Datny News."
Sit,—Allow me to pay my tribute to your editorial articles, one under the caption of "Not Enough," dated February 24, and another on "Marx fxm," dated Maveh 14, from both of which T take the liberty to quote, ax they would -bear repetition, "Patriotism is not enough" Love of County and rolieltude for national welfare can now fnd.-due expression "nly" in "close. observance of, inter: national ties and. fall attention "to {nternational comradeship. The other indic but the pital bravado, which waves. a tattered. five in. puny He: Rimnee of Ne advancing hosts. "of Dprowressive worl effort "The inherent vigour in man more potent than he himeelf alway' Pecokaizes. For in exsonce it derives reactly feom the" spiritual impulses those ideals on which, ly hie daube find "disiPusionment, "ho Ts apt to, pour. ridicule. Demo Through, for. 1 imphee faith=the only' stable: facto tittle" world" f man.
Let it be noted that there words never fall on. deaf ears, so long: as humanity is endowed with faculty to reason and think, Any man of average intelligence and sanity everywhere will admit iti we are living jis world mainly for the cause of advancing. spiritual ideals and moral principles, not merely for Selfish aggrandisement.
may be conceded in this con nection that a State has undergone fan inevitable transformation in its concepts since the Gre: it is not as absolute as before, but morally amenable, tp use the pregnant words of Sir Austen Cham, berlain to "the world moral opinion."
As to thosments or demerits of the recent Sino-Japanese controvert sies, it is too premature to judge. One thing is certain that no outside pressure, however drastic, can convince Japan in any manner. The more pressure is brought to bea on her, the harder will become h heart, thereby serving to unite her -people like one man—who will only be enraged to end in disastrous, explosion as in the ease of the three dauntless sappers of Miao-hong.
jao. Thus. it_ may conclusively be stated that moral persuasion alone, even ineffective as it may pear will ultimately win.
Man is to err. State, is fallible. Hence, "criticism alone," ageording Sir Simon, "will of accomplish. much; there must also be practical efforts at conciliation," and the ideal of substituting international c0- for national rivalry will ally prevail.
The real heart of Japan can be found in many uta (31 syllable ode) by the Meiji Emperor, whose benevolent heart and humanitarian ideas corresponils by and large to the his tone utterances of Abraham Lin-alice ward wones with charity for ally. with firmness in the! Hiahe as God gives right, Tet us tive
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