New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-16
MR.. REDS ADDRESS.

MR.. REDS ADDRESS.
Sons and Friends OF Miami:
join you In saluting this venerable mother at
notable waymark in her great life. One hundred
and seven years ago the Congress voted ana
George Washington approved a foundation for this
university. Seventy-hve years ago II opened us
doors. Now 81 quaris monumentum crcumspice
There is the catalogue. There are the long lists
OF who served the State or the Church
that their lives are your glory. their names your
inspiration. There the longer lists Of others
10 whom kinder fortune did not set duties In the
eye OF the world But Miami made Of them citi-
Zens who leavened the lump OF that growing West
which then a sprawling. irregular line OF
pioneer settlements and Is now an empire. Search
through It, above and below the Ohio. and beyond
the Mississippi. So often-where there are centres
OF good work or right thinking and right living
so often and so wildly spread will you find traces
OF Miami. left by her own sons or coming from
those secondary centres that grew out Of her ex-
ample and influence. that are led in grateful
surprise TO exclaim II this be the work OF little
college God bless and prolong the little college.
H. half-starved and generally neglected. she mas
thus nourished good learning and its proper result
in good lives through the three-quarters OF
century ended to-day, may the days Of her years
be as he sands OF the sea; may the Twentieth
Century only introduce the glorious prime Of
career Of which the Nineteenth saw but modest
beginnings and may good old Miami still flourish
in secula seculorum
But the celebration OF her past and the aspira-
tions for her future belong 10 worthier sons-here
among these gentlemen OF the Board who have
cared for her in her need l make them my pro-
found Acknowledgements for the honor they have
done me in assigning me share In the work OF
this day Of days; and shall best deserve their trust
BY going with absolute candor straight 70 my
theme.
NEW DUTIES AND NEW WORLD.
7 shall speak OF the new duties that upon us
and the new world that Is opening 70 US with the
new century-of the spirit in which We should
advance and the results We have the right TO ask
shall speak OF public matters which II Is the
duty OF educated men TO consider; and OF mat
tiers which may hereafter divide parties. out on
which we must refuse to recognize party dis
tnctions Partisanship stops at the guard line.
"In the face Of an enemy are all Frenchmen."
said an eloquent imperialist once in my hearing,
In rallying his followers 10 support foreign meas
ure OF the French Republic AT this mom&it our
soldiers are facing barbarous or semi-ciVil'Ieu
foe which treacherously attacked them In a as
tant land where our flag had been sent IN TREND
ship with them. for the defence OF our own shores
Was II creditable or seemy that II was lately LETT
TO Bonaparte own soil 10 teacn some
American leaders that. at such a time. loyal men
at home do not discourage those soldiers or weaken
the Government that directs them?
Neither
dem Of all the steps that have led TO the present
situation For good or Ill the was fought
Its results are upon With the ratlhcation Oh
the Peace OF Paris our Continental Republic mas
stretched It's wings the West Indies and the
East II Is fact and not a theory that controhts
us We are actually and now responsible, not
merely 10 the inhabitants and 10 our own people
but in international law, 10 the commerce. the
travel the civilization of the world, Tor the
nreservaton OF order and the protection OF life and
nroperty In Cuba. in Porto Rico. In Guam ana IN
the Philippine Archipelago including that recent
haunt OF piracy the Sulus. Shall We acqut our
selves like men In the discharge Of this Immediate
duty: or shall we fall 10 Quarrelling with each
other like boys to whether such a duty Il
good or a bad thing for the country. and as 70
who got II fastened upon US? There may nave
been time for disputes about the wisdom OF re-
sisting the stamp tax but 1t was not just ai'e'
bunker Hill There may have been a time for not
debate about some mistakes in the Anti-Slavery
contest. but not just after Sumter and Bull Run
Furthermore IL Is as we'll to remember that you
ran never grind with the water that has passed
the mill Nothing in human power can ever re-
store the United States 10 the position II occupied
the dsy before Congress plunged us into the war
with Spain; enable us 10 escape what tna' war
entailed No matter what we wish. the old Con-
,,nentsl Isolation is gone forever. Whithersoever
we turn now we must do 1t with the burden or
our late acts 10 carry; the responsibility OF our
new position TO assume.
When the sovereignty which Spain had exercised
with the assent Of all nations over vast and dis
tant regions for three hundred years was solemniy
transferred under the eye OF the civilized world TO
! the United States our first responsibility became
the restoration OF order. Till that Is secured, any
/ hndrance 10 the effort Is bad citizenship-as bad
as resistance to the police-as much worse IN fact
as It's consequences may be more bloody ana oisas-
trous You have a wolf by the ears" said an
tha
! departing Peace Commissioner last autumn You
cannot let go OF him with either dignity or satey'
/ and he will not be easy TO tame.
3 POLICY FOR THE NEW POSSESSIONS.
| But when the task Is accomplished-when the
Stars and Stripes last bring the order and peace
mi security they typify instead OF wanton disorder.
with all the concomitants OF savage warfare over
which they now wave-we shall then be confronted
with the necessity OF policy for the future OF
these distant regions. II is problem that calls
! for our soberest. most dispassionate and most
patriotic thought. The colleges and the educated
classes generally should make II a matter or con-
science considered on all Its sides.
with reference to international law the burdens OF
sovereignty the rights and interests OF native
! tribes and the legitimate demands OF civilization
| 10 find first our National duty. and then our Ma
tional interest. which II Is also duty for our
statesmen to protect. On such subject we have
a right to look TO our colleges for the help they
should so we'll equipped TO give. From these still
] regions Of clustered thought may we'll come the
white light OF pure reason-not the Wild. whirling
words OF the special pieader. or OF the partisan.
giving loose rein to his hasty first Impressions II
would be I'll day for the colleges II crude and
hot tempered incursions into public AFFAIRS.
like a few unhappily witnessed OF late should lead
even their friends TO fear that they have been no
long accustomed 10 dogmatize TO boys that they
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