Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1898-08-10
EARL OF ROSEBERY'S VIEW
Outlines Benefits Of the English Speak
Ing Brotherhood.
Question Of Race Not Vital So the Friendly
Sentiment Is There-PrObable
Next War.


Institute, London, DR.. Walden
stein Slade gave an extended lee
ture on the English Speaking
Brotherhood. Following him the
Earl of Rosebery spoke as fol-
lows:
l am sure l am only expressing
your views when l tender, on your
behalf, our thanks to Pro. Wald-
stein for the extremely interesting
address he has delivered to US this
afternoon. (Hear, hear.) He has
set forth with a fulness and elo-
quence, and a learning which
leaves nothing to be desired, his
views on a question which is per-
haps of the most vital interest to
the English speaking brotherhood
to use his own expression-of
any that can lie before them. And,
although l may not agree in de-
tail with all his view and with all
that he has laid down-and it per-
haps would be impossible for any
two human beings to agree to so
many propositions as he has laid
down in the course of his speech
I think we may come to the
general conclusion with him that
under whatever name we may
choose to call it, or whatever form
it may assume, the good under
standing, the more cordial, the bet.
ter feeling between the Il hardly
know what to call it, for 1 am not
use the word Anglo.Saxon (laught
er)-British and American races is
one fraught with benefit to the
best destinies of mankind.
(Cheers). But L must warn you
against a pitfall that turks in that
expression. 1t is this--that putting
the conscientious Russian, whom
the professor summoned to give
testimony, aside, l am afraid all
the other great nations of the
world are under the same impres.
sion as ourselves as to the spread
of their power and their empire. l
doubt if the Germans or the
French, for example, and L make
bold to say even the Russlc ns,
though they have been quoted
against the argument by the lee
turer, would hot be disposed to
say that the extension of their
several empires would be in the
best interests of the human race.
That is feeling common to all
nationalities, and we can only hor,e
that we indulge in it with m ore
reason and on a broader '.asis
than do the others l have men
toned. Our lecturer toc,'S excep-
tion to the term Anglo Saxon and
he took exception very Justly to
that term as not being truly a
scientific descrir ltion of our race.
But l think 'Ae would agree with
me in sayinc1 that the same objec-
tlons wo,dld lie against a generic
descrlp> don of almost any other
race In the world inhabiting its
OWE territory-I cannot recall one
at this moment-which can be
strictly called race if all the OBJ
jections which lie against the
term Anglo-Saxon lie against the
adjective which may be applied to
that race. l do not plead for the
word Anglo-Saxon. l welcome
any other term than Anglo-Saxon
which, in a more conciliatory, g
more scientific, and more adequate
manner describes the thing l want
to describe.
But whether you call it British
or Anglo-Saxon, or whatever you
call it, the fact is that the race il
there, and the sympathy of the
race is there. How you arrive al
that sympathy, whether it be pure
ly by language, or, as perhaps
think more truly, by the moral
intellectual, and political infu-
ences under which a nationality
has grown up, is foreign to my
purpose to discuss today. Blu
this at least we may say, tha
when nation has inhabited Ger,
tain boundaries without distur
bance for considerable numbe
of centuries, even though it ha
received accessions from foreigl
nations, and when it has fuse(
} those accessions from foreign ma
tiops into its own nationality an,