468 RELIGIOUS EQUALITY 



be a Moslem, or a Christian, or a man of no creed ; 

 whether the crime be committed in pohtical strife or 

 industrial warfare ; whether it be an act hired by a rich 

 man or performed by a poor man ; whether it be 

 committed under the pretence of preserving order or 

 the pretence of obtaining liberty. It is equally abhorrent 

 in the eyes of all decent men, and, in the long-run, 

 equally damaging to the very cause to which the assassin 

 professes to be devoted. 



Yours is a National University, and as such knows 

 no creed. This is as it should be. When I speak of 

 equality between Moslem and Christian, I speak as one 

 who believes that where the Christian is more powerful 

 he should be scrupulous in doing justice to the JNloslem, 

 exactly as under reverse conditions justice should be 

 done by the Moslem to the Christian. In my own 

 country we have in the Philippines IMoslems as well as 

 Christians. We do not tolerate for one moment any 

 oppression by the one or by the other, any discrimina- 

 tion by the Government between them or failure to 

 mete out the same justice to each, treating each man 

 on his worth as a man, and behaving towards him as his 

 conduct demands and deserves. 



In short, I earnestly hope that all responsible for the 

 beginnings of the University, which I trust will become 

 one of the greatest and most powerful educational 

 influences throughout the world, will feel it incumbent 

 upon themselves to frown on every form of wrong- 

 doing, whether in the shape of injustice, or corruption, 

 or lawlessness, and to stand with firmness, with good 

 sense, and with courage, for those immutable principles 

 of justice and merciful dealing as between man and 

 man, without which there can never be the slightest 

 growth towards a really fine and high civilization. 



