The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-18
AMERICA-NoRrH AND SOUTH.


 New York, made at the chamber of commerce banquet, Wednesday night, in response to the toast, America North and South" was one of the most interesting of the evening, Lack of space prevented it's publication in these columns yesterday morning. It is given in full below:
 l am highly gratified by your invita- ton to this banquet. I am delighted |again to meet you, old friends, for if our acquaintance dates only from last year, the incidents of my visit here un- der the auspices of the Philadelphia Museums and of this chamber of com merce are very vivid in my memory. I was struck by the warm-hearted Hospitality extended to me and to all my companions, I may say, fellow countrynlen of the various American republics. When I left New Haven I | felt I carried with me a lasting re- Imembrance, for if I easily forget what learn by rote, I never forget what l learn through the heart.
 l knew I could not keep silent if I came, could not but express my | thanks to you, for we of the southern | continent like to talk and cannot help 1 talking. My strong foreign accent does not deter me, nor perhaps a vague feel ] ing of being ungrateful, through com hitting an act unfrendly to you, in tor turing your ears and murdering your | fine English language, in return for 1 your courteous attention. I intended to i tell you how happy was to see you again, and then raising my glass, to drink to you, health and prosperity. But when I recieved your worthy pres ldent's telegram, honoring me with a response to the toast America well, 1 must own that my courage forsook me, and I had the strange feeling of those who undertake too great task. l found myself timid, but l was afyai l of showing that 1 was afraid and trembling with fear, l sent a courag- eous answer.
 1 And now I am bold again, for I feel as if amidst my family, for we are closely united, since we are all Ameri- cans, you from the north and I from the south. Yes, we are bound together by the strong ties of common ideals and Inspirations, of similar interests and in- stitutions.
 | And what is the American idea? It is not to you men of New England, that it is to be said that it was you, the pioneers, it was you that planted in the new soil the sacred seed from which has sprung the luxuriant growth by whose shade is protected the great re- public. The doctrine of the govern ment of the people, for the people, by the people, was enunciated by the New England colonies before the middle of the seventeenth century. It was in de- fense of this idea that independence was accomplished. As freemen the exercise of the sacred rights was not strange to your forefathers. This is the secret of your wonderful success in government.
 It is a great moment in the history Iof this continent. Two news stars have Iappeared in the American constellation. lone already shines in the North Ameri- can cluster, the other. master of it's own destinies, either will shine as a lone star or will enter the same group. The Spanish flag has disappeared from the Icontinent, the Spanish discovered and conquered. Let us see what they have accomplished. They fearlessly eXplor- ed almost the whole continent, and so well, that for the greater part, fifty years after the conquest, was better known than Asia or Africa are to-day. TTho1r 1rb+ 11rif6 thpro tbpiI rali n they brought with them every product of the mother country. One thing they did not bring, because they had it not tIe idea of self government. This alone will explain the long apprentice ship in self government which the other American republics have had to serve in aspiring to this noble form of gov ernment. They feel the momentous part they have to play in the welfare 1 of mankind, and it is their ardent desire
 and aim to be in harmony with the
 most advanced civilization.
 Indeed at different epochs of history
 and looking in philosophical spirit, at the onward march of the human race we find that different nations have ac- complished important missions, anc those once finished, they have receded lin importance. The Jewish people dur ing centuries preserved tn montheistio Idea. The ancient Greeks invented and perfected all the arts of war and O.
 peace, they inquired into the hidden
 meaning of things, and if Athens ha6 been conquered by tfe Persians, wt
 here to-day would not be intellectually what we are. The most beautiful
 dreams of life were lived by the smal
 Grecian states.
 Rome, great Rome. gave laws ant
 civilization to barbarous world, Spair home of liberty, invented the covenant
 between absolute monarchy and democ
 racy; France through her belief 1T three magic words, liberty, equality
 fraternity brought about a revolution
 that changed the basis of European in
 stitutions and whose effects are felt t.
 the present day. Some of these nation have disappeared, others have passed
 through different vicissitudes. History whenever the useful mission of nations
 comes to an end. puts them, like sC
 many gray veterans in the retired lis and calls forth new races and new peo pies to fulfill the mission of the flu ture. Our debt to them, is, neverthe less, the same.
 , Let the good they have done surviv, and be always remembered, let their CT TOTS be buried and forgotten