Arizona republican., 1899-03-02

with the Indian nor the Negro at home | IS we should have done always, but
 that does not stamp us as incapable of l affordng good government for the | Philippines. We have been unfortu- nate in being confronted with the word. | imperialism A wonderful catch 1 phrase, and one that carries a strong 1 impression to the minimizing but I do not see why we should be mIsIed by it. | We have a duty to perform for our 1 selves, for civilization and for the in habitants of the Philippines. and we i cannot shirk our responsibility. ''OO you not think, bishop, that in all this war and it's fruits that this nation was an instrument in carrying cut the designs of Providence?"
 Yes, I do think that, though I have rather avoided speaking cf the subject
 because it is one that so many minis
 ters have dlwelt on 50 continuously. cannot but believe, however, that it
 was Q part of the work of Providence
 to replace a decadent civilization with
 the brightest and best of the nine
 teenth century. No nation of Europe,
 except England, has on the whole so
 high a civilization as the United States.
 And 1 go further in believing that the
 AnglO-SaXOn nations are but the in-
 struments of a higher power to enlarge
 the worlds usefulness, spread Chris
 5ianity and raise the mi-barbarous
 to the plane of our civilization It has
 often been pointed out by writers and
 speakers that the birth of this nation
 was the result of divine guidance; that
 it was given a mission to spread the doctrine of better government. free in stitutions and higher civilization
 throughout the world and it would seem in the light of history that that
 was true"
 As the founder of the ChautauQUa movement, can you tell the readers of The Republican something of it's growth?"
 "Oh! it's growth has been world wide, and simply marvellous. It is or ganized in England and the fourth an- nual meeting of the Chautauqua circle Of Great Britain will be held the com ing summer. Its readers may be found fn every country of Europe, in Asia. Africa, Australia, South America and the islands of the seas. In tour of South America a few years ago in which I went down the east coast as lar as Montevideo, then crossed the Andes to Chilli, I found Chautauuua readers wherever I went. An incident that may interest you occurred i'll Syria in 1887. I was in Damascus when native Syrian called on me and said that if I would meet a body of Syrians that night and explain to them the Chautauqua movement he would interpret for me. The man had been in the United States and spoke good English. 1 visited the house and beside number of men present were nearly an equal number of women. talked to them for an hour explaining the movement, my address being inter- 1 preted as I proceeded, and the guests | assembled were delighted with the plan and later organized 9 Chautauqua ! circle. The college extension societies, 1 newspaper reading clubs, are but in ! line with the Chautauqua work until l today the readers and students are numbered by the hundreds of thou sands"
 Cant you tell us something of how you came to originate the plan or idea?"
 It grew out of 9 desire for more ! extensive knowledge. I had received a | common school and academic educa- ! ton and was a young minister in the | Methodist church. The AHethodists ! have a line of yearly reading or study . for all young ministers. but I felt | desire for a broader reading, one that ' could not be secured through 9 mere ' college course CT ordinary ext books, | and out Of that desire grew the idea ! to establish a course Of reading which !. would not only educate, but b-caden ! ones mind. And it is g strange coin ! cidence that the college extension plan . was conceived in England the same year. Out of it all has grown higher education for thousands of people that 1 they would never have been able to Se- 1 cure in any other way