OSU professor claims
Economy caused imperialism
By DON MACK
Of The Emerald
Explaining American expan
sion as a result of economic fac
tors, William Williams, profes
sor of history at Oregon State
University, told a University
audience of 100 on Jan. 24 that
the American farmer of the
late 19th Century was “acting
as an economic imperialist.”
Williams argued that “T h e
Roots of American Imperialism,”
the topic of his lecture, appear
ed in the post-Civil War era
when the nation’s majority,
commercial farmers, sought an
outlet for their surplus commo
dity and found it in the ex
pansion of the foreign market.
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Such expansion, Williams
said, was intended to be “in the
name of freedom,” since it was
felt that if backward nations
could be developed into an agri
cultural market, they, too, could
enjoy America’s prosperity and
freedom.
The tremendous increase of
American exports following the
nation’s depression, “literally
shook Europe,” Williams said.
Williams claims the expan
sion of the export system, not
American industrialization,
“scared the rest of the world.”
American farmers, according
to Williams, were determined to
break the British ' control of
world economy. He said the
agricultural majority was con
vinced that if silver was remone
tized, America could “destroy
British supremacy and replace
it with American economic su
premacy.”
When the nation’s leaders,
who Williams called “the metro
politan elite,” realized the
success of the American agri
cultural export market, they
saw it as a “system,” according
to Wililams and “began to trans
fer the agricuture experience to
the industrial, metropolitan sec
tor.”
Theologian says God is real
By LINDA CREASEY
Of the Emerald
What are the grounds for be
lieving in God? John Hick, phi
losopher and theologian, consid
ered this question Thursday,
Jan. 23, in the concluding lec
ture of a three-day series.
Since the end of the Middle
Ages, Hick said, there have been
many arguments offered for be
lief in God.
A conclusion drawn from
these arguments is that God
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exists or is real. This concurs
with those who demonstrate the
reality of God or show that this
is a probable conclusion. Those
outside the realm of faith are
trying to build a bridge of ra
tionality to others who don't be
lieve in God, Hick said, speak
ing to about 125 people in the
EMU ballroom.
One area of data available to
those who believe in God is re
ligious experience. Since the
nonreligious man doesn’t have
this data of religious experience
available to him, he finds belief
in God irrational, said Hick.
Religious experience is an
awareness of a different world;
it is a different way of looking
at this world. It is possible to
study this in men of strong faith
such as Jesus of Nazareth, Paul
and prophets of the Old Testa
ment. Their religious experi
ences made it natural for them
to live in divine presence in this
external world. Faith was a per
sonal reality to them- Hick said.
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