The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-12-19

PARAMOU UNr BLoUNT AIRED BY
TROF. y. IRyIKG IN N6TT.
Blonnt In the Habit OF jumping Mt Con-
illusions from Data of tho Most aIeasre
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| Professor j. lrviag Mnnatt OF Brown unl
yersity, talk eft the Unitarian Grub meet
ing Ga the J'rocadero last evening. His
views regarding the land OF glory and the
muck heap of the Sandwich Islands
might be enlarged hid he been one nt the
! "L0dias night" banquet. The Hgwaiinn
skyrOcket commissioner would have been
enlightened by lhe discourse comparing
the merits OF the two countries and his
appreciation OF the Importance of repre-
Gentation abroad would be more consist
cnt with common sense. Mr.. Manatt,
formerly United States Counsel at At
hens, said in substance the followingnftcr
being introduced BY president. A. Il.
Calder.
There is a fresh bit OF PlDlhtinigm
which has stirred my indignation and
upon which / wish to set my heel. When
gallant little Greece, after centuries OF
Mo.iem rule end foreign domination,
I Tusc 40 last 20 gnH1Ie Oh TH8 YOKE HHu re-
assert her right 10 q place among the
nations, the memory OF our oWn kindred
struggle was yet fresh, and We did
not withhold our help. You sent
clothing and food TO them; you seat the
knighHy Howe SO share their dangers,
and there was the splendid cloqnence OF
! Henry Clay TO plead their cause IN the
great Forpm OF the American people in
that same Forum less than two years ago
were spoken words which brought
tho BLUSH to my cheek as First read them
under the shadow Of the Acropoli8 and IA
the midst ofa hospitRble people
fMr. Chairmann' SAID a degCnor0t Sc son
OF the South, standing where Clay may
have stood. "WhRt need have we for a
minister at Greece? We are told that
! Greece Is classic ground. But, sir, the
muses. haye long since deserted her noun
tains. Her beautiful marble no longer
awakes the genius Of her once gifted
! sculptors. Her legends are fast passing
away from The earth. Her halls Gf
philosophy erc closed forever. Her sen
coast, once the centre OF Qnimnensc conn
merce, 10 almost as silent as at the dawn
OF creation itself IA that land Is an ig-
norqnt, thriitless, idle population, stand
ing beside the ruined tombs and anonu-
mcnts OF a decayed. and forever departed
greatness. What need have We fora min
lister at that court / repeat?"
In my childhood l remember TO have
read the life OF the first convert from
paganism, that tin then fed onrhuman
flesh IN the Sandwich Islands. A kcport
in the present statusat Honolulu based on
that book would Sc no Iess false in s0IrIs
andin feet than this silhouette OF Greece,
sirily turned OF by tho chairman OF the
house committee on foreign affairs two
years pgo; and am Teserying my iudg-
ment on the HaWaiiGn situation because
the author OF the words / have Just read
10 you Is the same Mr. Biount who has
just distinguished himself ricru' 1ess-
IN our Hawaiian business. A st8teman,
speaking as nations representative
should pever insult a sister nation, least
OF all on the authority Of books thab were
mouldy before his birth. If tho muses.
have deserted her mountains, the Athen-
ian prsls y today the most prolific in lhe
world, and Greece is certainty moi behind
Georgia in letters.
Her beautiful marble does vet awake the
genius OF her sculptors, and ] doubt
whether more exquisite work hos been
done In our time than the AchiIic and
Paris Of my friend Iroutos ay Athens.
Her halls OF philosophy may be closed To
MIR, Blount's vision, but her university
is crowded with 5000 students, her
women's college is training teachers for
all the Greek communities in the East;
her gymnasia lnvishing free public
instruction on all her children.
dawn OF creation, then creation must have
had a regular Fourth OF July dawn. OF
course. the Greeks are not trading much
in the Pacific and have no station at
Atlanta or Honolulu. but the carrying
trade Of the Icvans Is in their hands
and stays there in the teeth Of
England. But MR. Blount reserved his
sharpcst arrow for the hnal shot. SIN
that land is an ignorant, thriflless, idle
people."' OF all these gratuitous Gings,
This isthe worst. A moro, sober, frugal
industrious people could hardly be found.
There arc many .cafcrs IN Athens, oa
tharc are in Washington or Atlanta, but
the only tramp ! saw in Greece was Gn
American sailor. l must modify shat
l--llA u IA - ~ 81 t--4@4-sa
tramping 81 Greece but driving BEFORE
them d iloclS so market on her bead Wes
a has,.et. while tina distaN she plied as she
tralupod. Tho Greeks have Transformed
q barren Island rock hy putiont industry
into frniiiul garden, which today .gcd
$500 irugoi Wrcgl-s where n tlourind
Georgiaha would sl6rve. And such ere
the people Who arc insulted by ono whoge
first obligation was that OF international
courtesy. THAI speech was n national dis
grace tut not 90 The GrcciSs
Tho other speakers were Rcv. Samuel j.
Burrows, cditof OF the Chr tian Regic-
ter, who made hn address ON che aobicct
Of tho evening, "Tho Development az
Liherelsm and Philanthropy in Europe"
nnd Mr, Charles Alewlman. During The
evening Miss Apnio Dean sang severed
stlcgtiona
An trsaitcd Srotchnan.
The following story heard at Killarney