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RELIGIOUS EQUALITY 
be a Moslem, or a Christian, or a man of no creed ; 
whether the crime be committed in political 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 Moslem, 
exactly as under reverse conditions justice should be 
done by the Moslem to the Christian. In my own 
country we have in the Philippines Moslems 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. 
