Homer B. Hulbert

              THE CHAUTAUQUA MANAGERS ASSOCIATION PRESENTS

Homer B. Hulbert


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C.M.A. STANDARD




MANAGEMENT OF CHAUTAUQUA MANAGERS ASSOCIATION, Orchestra Building, Chicago





HOMER B. HULBERT



Diplomat, Traveler, Public Speaker — Eminent authority on Social and Political Conditions in the Far East.
Direction, The Chautauqua Managers Association
Orchestra Building, Chicago, Ill.


H
OMER B. HULBERT, A. M., F. R. G. S., for twenty years in the employ of the Korean Government, and a personal adviser of the emperor of Korea who was forced to abdicate in 1907, is best known as an advocate of the Korean people against the usurpations of Japan.




For two decades he lived in the center of those stirring scenes which diverted the attention of the whole world to the Far East.  He personally participated in many of those events, and has had unparalleled opportunities for investigation.




He has been acquainted with all the men who have played important parts in the great drama, from Gen. Schufelt, who negotiated the first treaty, and Gen. Foote, our first Minister, down to the present time.




He sided with Japan in the late war, believing that she would handle Korea carefully.  He has found cause to revise that opinion.  In 1905 he was sent to Washington by the emperor with a protest against the removal of the American Legation from Seoul.




He was charged by the Japanese with connivance in the assassination of Prince Ito, and his life was repeatedly threatened.  For years he worked to obtain redress for Koreans who were robbed by Japanese, and thus incurred a bitter hatred of the dominant power.  The story reads like a novel, but the facts are abundantly corroborated.




Mr. Hulbert has spoken before Societies, Clubs, Chambers of Commerce, Boards of Trade, Universities and Young Men's Christian Associations all over this country.  He made a special study of conditions on the Pacific slope.  He is personally acquainted with our leading military men, and has heard their side of the question.




The whole question as to the future of the Pacific basin comes under review, and he gives facts which enable the listener to reach a definite conclusion to at least some of the points at issue.




Mr. Hulbert is an ardent advocate of peace, and proposes to show how that end can best be attained.  He is the author of several books on the Far East, and was for many years the editor of The Korea Review, the only English magazine in Korea.




He has made the Siberian transcontinental trip five times, and has made careful investigations, with a view to informing our people with the exact bearing of Russia upon the Far Eastern problem.





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C.M.A. STANDARD






I.  The Oriental Chess-Board



The lecturer here answers just those questions that the intelligent American is asking about the Far East.  The causes and results of various alliances, the shiftings of the balance of power, the control of the Pacific, Japan's ambitions in China and elsewhere.  The game is fascinating; the move rapid.  Mr. Hulbert tells from personal observation the characteristics of the players and of the pieces with which they play.  Best of all he shows us the stakes for which the game is being played.





II.  The Frontier of American Commercial Empire



The speaker analyzes the commercial situation, shows America's need of and right to a share of the trade of the Orient, illustrates the reasons why we should be alert in protecting those rights.  He discusses the utility of the Panama Canal and our duty toward the Philippine Islands.  He shows the vital connection between immigration and the need of an open door in the Far East.  He illustrates these points by specific instances that makes his deductions as lucid as an axiom.





III. How America Can Avoid War



In this lecture Mr. Hulbert discusses dispassionately the factors which go to make up the problem that faces America on the Pacific.  He reviews the question of disarmament and the reasons pro and con.  He believes that the safest thing in the world is the truth, and is determined that our people shall know the truth.  He has no patience with jingoism, but equally deprecates that form of optimism which is unwilling to recognize unwelcome truths.  His exposition of the underlying spirit of Japan and of China lays the basis for an intelligent judgment without incurring the charge of dogmatism.  He shows where danger lies and how it can best be avoided.





IV. Korea, The Belgium of The Far East



Mr. Hulbert here relates the naked facts in regard to the extinction of Koreas' national life.  As an eye-witness of and participator in many of these events he has a story to tell which probes to the centre of the whole question of Japan's ambitions and the methods by which those ambitions are attained.  He answers the often asked question whether the annexation of Korea by Japan was a good thing or not and gives reasons which amply support his views.




This lecture is illustrated by numerous lantern slides, some of which are of very unusual character.






Boston, Mass., October 20, 1910.




MR
. H. B. 
HULBERT
.




Dear Sir:  I wish to express to you my appreciation of the splendid lecture you delivered before the Malden Club on the 
Passing of Korea.
  I have been chairman of the entertainment committee of our Club for a number of years and, it is our usual custom to give a monthly entertainment and smoke talk, and I can truthfully say that during my membership in the Club I have never before seen such an intense interest displayed at an occasion of this kind, and perhaps the greatest compliment I can pay to you is to tell you that your lecture has gotten me into hot water as chairman of the entertainment committee, because I am asked almost nightly by fellow-members of the Club, 
Why don't you give us more lecturers like Hulbert?




I should be very glad to recommend you to any club or society and to assist you in every way possible, because I feel that your lecture is one of the very few that will not only interest but enthuse any audience before whom it is presented.




Wishing you every success, I am [Signed] W. 
AVERILL
,
Chairman Entertainment Committee.



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Endorsements from Individuals and from the Press



The Springfield Board of Trade
 [Mass.], wishes to extend to Mr. H. B. Hulbert the hearty appreciation and thanks of that body for the rare treat which he afforded at the entertainment held at the Board rooms last Wednesday night.  The undivided attention which was given through every minute of his talk is, I believe, the most fitting tribute that can be paid to his enthusiastic lecture.  And I may add that no entertainment ever given before the Springfield Board of Trade has seemed to meet with greater success than the one held last Wednesday evening.




C. 
HENRY HATHAWAY
, Secretary.




The London Tribune
 says:


Mr. Hulbert's statement shows a fine restraint that is remarkable in one who has been identified actively in the political war that has been raging over Korea.




The St. Louis Republican
 says:


Mr. Hulbert speaks not from the standpoint of the tourist, but of one who has been behind the scenes.  He gives us more than a casual impression.  He bids us pause in our complacency over the Far Eastern situation long enough to include in our view some facts not heretofore generally known.




The Boston Transcript
 says:


He tells us what is more interesting than romance; a true story, and yet it has all the fascination of the best fiction.




Ex-Governor John Morrison
 of Idaho says:

Prof. Hulbert is a forcible and entertaining speaker.  Moreover, he has a message of vital importance to every American, and his thought flows from a fullness of knowledge of the complex and dynamic situation in the Orient.




E. C. Baldwin,
 Secretary of the Young Men's Institute of the Young Men's Christian Association of New York, says:

Prof. Hulbert delivered a splendid address before our members on 
America's Duty to the Far East
.  He gave us a very delightful and profitable evening.




Dr. Lewis Gaston Leary
 of Pelham Manor, N. Y., says:

Our Men's Club was delighted with Prof. Hulbert's address on the Far East.  We found in him not only absolute first-hand acquaintance with the facts bearing upon the problems of the Far East, but also a facility of expression, lightness of humor and convincing eloquence that held the audience spellbound for an hour.  We had an unusually critical audience, and if Prof.  Hulbert could hold their attention he could hold any audience.  I would heartily recommend him for any platform.




Dr. Charles Dinsmore
 of Waterbury, Conn., says:

Prof. Hulbert gave a truly remarkable lecture in our last winter's course.  It was more than entertaining and instructive.  The subject so possessed him that his sustained and impassioned eloquence created genuine enthusiasm both for the speaker and for his theme.  The lecture was the most popular of the course.




Mr. Josiah Quincy
 of Boston says:

Mr. Hulbert spoke on the Far East before The Twentieth Century Club of this city, and I feel confident that his hearers received great enjoyment from his presentation.  He has an unusual equipment to speak on Oriental matters.  He has an excellent personality, vigorous manner and a wide command of English; and I feel sure that he will contribute much to the enjoyment and information of any gathering he may address.




Dr. Alexander McGaffin
 of Cleveland, O., says:

I know of no one better qualified to speak about the peoples of the Far East.  Our people heard his address last winter with great interest.  The questions they asked and the comments they made afterward showed that he held their attention throughout.  They felt that he knew.  I hope that many societies and clubs will hear him.




Dr. G. S. Rollins
 of Springfield, Mass., says:

Prof. Hulbert's lecture was informing and thrilling.  Few men living are better informed on political matters in the Far East than he.




Dr. Edward T. Fairbanks
 of St. Johnsbury says:

Prof. Hulbert's long residence in Korea, holding responsible official position under that Government, has given him intimate acquaintance with men of affairs.  He is thus qualified to give intelligent and accurate views of the present situation; and this he does in a masterly way.  His addresses are broad in scope, interesting in detail, enlivened with illustrative incident, and delivered with the fervor of one whose heart is in his theme.  He holds the closest attention of his hearers from start to finish, leaving them eager to her him again.




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