The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-17
PRES. HYDE OF B0WD0IN
EL0QUENT ADDRESS AT UNITED
 CHURCH LAST EYENING.

CHI URCH LAST EHENING. t'National Ideals aud Belligerence Versus
 Arbitration"-Taliacy of Vigorous For
 cign Policy-A scheme of Politicians
 Three Create pposing Elements--A Popu-
 lar Movement to be Started.
 At the service at the United church last evening under the auspices of the Mems Sunday Evening club, President Hyde of BoWdoin college delivered an address on National Ideals Beliger- ence Versus Arbitration" to large audience. MT. Hyde said; "The people or Israel wanted a. warrior king, to-day 1t is the political leaders of our coun try who are disturbers of the people. The average American politician advo- cates a so-called vigorous foreign policy because other nations have such a policy, A kind Providence has already given us a policy under which the idea of foreign war with any great Euro pean power is preposterous, yet these politicians say that European nations have vigorous foreign policy and we want one. No nation on thes earth has the slightest desire to go to war With the United States, yet these politicians like the people of ancient Israel want a warrior king
 This desire to be like other nations is base and ignoble in the same degree that it is base and ignoble for one man to try to be like another. Sooner or later there comes to each young man vision of just how he can and ought to be. That vision will be composed Of the various views, traits and charac- teristics of his relatives, friends or neighbors, but the vision of what he himself ought to be will contain these characteristics in proportion agreeing with his individuality and in a manner linique in himself If he makes of him. self the reality of this vision the young man will become original and real and will share in that which produced a Cromwell in licentious England, a Caesar, and a Lincoln Be true to the vision of your true individual self and become man. If, however, on the other hand, you pattern after others no true word can ever come from your mouth, nor can any grand achieve ment center in your will. He who fol- lows the latter course is not a man, but an imitation of a man. Such a crisis confronts this county. Shall we be an example to all the nations of the eaFth as a power for peace or squan- deF our resources and harden our hearts to be reckoned as formidable fighter? There are two ideals for Americans to eherish for their country There is the ideal of intellectual and moral influence to be fair and true and just The es- tablishment of court of arbitration is all that is necessary to bring this about. The question before the American peo- pie is whether they will follow after other nations in brute force or lead the world in bringing to the fore intellectual and moral force, whether they will ap- peal to force or to reason, whether they will follow or lead. Every intelligent man must choose for the nation as for himself that it shall be original. The question is not discussion of the de- sirability of war or peace which are not ends in themselves. Liberty is better than peace in servitude. Law is better than the precarious peace of permitted license. Taxation without representa- tion is worse than war. Destruction of great nation which God has joined to- gether is worse than war
 'srThe world to-day is hardly ready for arbitration with a nation like Turkey, but between two civilized nations no question can arise which cannot be set tied by arbitration. It is not war as such or peace as such, but justice and well be- ing by means of arbitration is the ques- ton concerning which every intelligent American must make up his mind.
 England and the United States must take the lead in international peace. Many people in this country feel bitter towards England. To be sure England was not particularly considerate of our rights in colonial times, ,aristocratic Eng land sympathized with the south dur ing the rebellion, but in our own his tory there are things equally as bad, among others the plunder of the Indian lands However we feel towards aris- tocratic England for her conduct during the rebellion we must remember that 25o,0o0 Lancashire weavers would not work on southern cotton and when by rising in mass meetings they could have compelled the English government to raise the blockade of the southern cities, ) they refused to lift up word of com plaint and never would utter g thing not in free sympathy with the free labor of the north. Let Us not forget what the poor, honest, hard working Lanca- shire men said and did when aristocrat- ic England tried to help the south. The present is an opportune time to estab- fish a unity of peace on fair and honor able terms.
 The present tangle was brought about by politicians of both the great parties From their point of view it was desir- 2 able to bring about a policy on which all would unite. We have tried to man. ufacture a position out of whole cloth Such is the origin of this policy oi clustering belligerents, which has beer thrust upon us. At first the scheme gave promise of success, as when Israel ACuTG anu NIlTOIllC