The San Francisco call., 1898-09-10
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quest, but because the canker was eating at the heart and undermining the consti- eutlon, even where the imperial city had sat and sinned through so many centu- res. The Athenian state was undermined py demagogues working on the sensibili- tles or a highly intellectual people and rendering unstable the very principles which should have insured it immortality. tHere are many reasons why expansion tso called) has been failure You can not conquer and leave country to itself me retention, government and complete conquest of a country involves the con trol on the part of one with the acolIi- essence of the other. The change of hab- Us, customs, moral influences. In fact, the Witb bsii1s d or the weaker into the stronger, n Mitn preservation on.,the part of the stronger Of every characteristic of itself Iake the British provinces and they are English to the core. the men marry Eng fish women, teach their children English customs and perforce English civilization SIe Gnokes out everything not kindred to it. ! ms Kind or conquest is complete; and to pc permanent 1t must be so. When as result or enforced associations and the niixture re or human blood the national Gn!er GGn!aeracter suffers, the tenor of thought orlfts into other channels, the bond of sympathy between the province and the III nsolner country IS snapped, and the loss or o one to the other is irrevocable.-
 One generation changes the breadth and scope of life; fifty years creates a new so- clal order, and upon this must depend the character and stability of govern
 
 upon the character of colonization Fer- haps the most perfect lesson In this was Salored by the government under the Ro- ''So sensible were the Romans of the in nuence Of language over national manners that 1t was their most serious care to ex- tend ,,s with the progress of their arms the ican, with his family. wife and children With the schoolhouse and the English Ian guage which will Americanize the colo hn Saxon institutions beyond the territorial boundaries of this country There can never Tltnai be two languages and one civ time when the American could stan stand or and and, point to so many les comrades and companions under the light of that fiercer sun, looking upon it, think ing of this day, this hour and this oeca- ssion, so whose voices go out in prayer for breathe prayer for them in the name of this order-"God bless and protect them Wherever they may be-" Tn paying a tribute to our flag desire to relate to you an experience of my own in for e1gn- land-an experience which I shall never forget the memory of which will to cherish the idols of my country. It was on the 22d of February, 1S92-the com memoration of the birth of Washington was standing on the deck of the Ameri-
 
 At the hour of 12 she fired a signal gun, when from the brazen throats of the can non upon every warship in that harbor came the answer in thunder, ufftll each had fired twenty-one guns, the tribute due the head of this nation. These, all these. were in honor of the dead patriot. the father of his country. Then I saw running up on, the mast of every war shipin that harbor the Stars and Stripes, until the colors mingled with the colors of all nations. and played side by side wi fy, fhn vr,;r, le Oriental seas.
 And there, by the side of the Russian emblem. the tri-color-the dragon and the rising sun of the Orient, beside the ban ners of the six great powers that parade their strength and glory upon, every sea aye, beside all the royal and imperial banners shone the stars of the republic, and upon those distant seas the thought came to me that when all these, like the Iron hand and the brazen shield. should | survive only as the dead emblems of past would still wave over these and other | seas, the ensign of liberty, humanity and law. It has been said that there is noth- ing so inspiring in foreign land as the | to this, for 1t is when severed from ties and home that the chords of the human heart are more responsive to the touch 1 the voice that Is still. Go to far-famed Athens, where the figures on her broken columns still look and long for the silent l Appian Way, still echoing to the tread of victorious armies. Go visit the thousand scenes around which ancient memories cluster and throng, where gods have fallen. religions and philosophies perished where coats of mail and chiseled marble speak of the arts and wars of long ago | Yet more inspiring than all of these i1 a | foreign land Is the flag of your country with its resplendent stars shining down upon you wherever you may roam It will take you back from gorgeous palaces from ancient capitals, from ruined spien- dors and faded glories. away from the echoing murmurs of the restless tides that have passed out of the gates of an l ancient world. to the land where by the lofty mountains and murmuring streams liberty builds her temples and worships her God. No place like the land of youl birth. with the thousand images that | forever dwell in memory. making life sa. 1 cred, It's aspirations exalted It's purposes manly. And here let us abide and here l fill the lot of man. holding the golden 1 chain that links the past and the future mocking. time in the presentation of the old glories, and indulging what there Is | of hope and ambition in the future achievements of this republic.