The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-11-17
URGED srrronr 10 EMPIRE.
Lord Hosebery's Address ~ Rector
Of glasgow TntVcrsip.


GLASGOW Nov l6-Tbc Earl of Rose
berry was installed as lord rector of elias
gov universty TODAY
His rcetorisl adiross on the subject Of
"Tho British Empire was stirring ap-
peal go the rae, 10 realize its r.sponsi-
hn.'ics and 90 prepare go neht Tor its ex-
isteucc Never aid lus tprdsh.p dii
tho empire s1 urFcuuy require the siren
uous support of ui suaicc,s hacau.e
there was a disposition abroad 60 .hal-
leuge both its naval and o. commercial
supremacy
Tha twentieth century hc declared
would D, a perlrI 81 keen Intelligent ana
almost ner.s irtcrnatoaI composition.
more. probably. IN enc arts of peace even
than in the arts OF war Therefore. be-
added. it was necessary 90 undertake
| periodical stoekadlng. to remodel the state
machinery ard educational mcthcia. to
become more business Ike and thorough
a. wnrriors merchants aud Statesmen.
and To look Thoroughly 80 thc trliHiuE of
fret rate men Tor the struEsh ahead. ss
on these dsuended tine future OF empire
and the racc He Thought that the now
antiquated methods of training had al
most Resulted in commsr 'ial disaster and
the time had arrived 20 reconsider thc
SENSATIONAL apparatus
Lold Rosebery asserted that but for che
small inc'deus of tho acceptance Of a
pecpCc the empire might have been To-
calcuiabN greater HAD the elder ptu
when be became first minister noe left
the House of Commons nr wouh prob
ably have retained hia sanity and authorl-
a.. and be- would have prevented OF sup
pressed the Reckless budget ~ America
Townsend Induced George TII - listen 90
res@ot Introduce representative of
America into Parliament and preserved
tho thirteen colonies 90 tho British crown
what Minht Have Becn.
"is @ fanciful 10 dwell Tor moment
on what might have hapacncde" coutin-
ued Lord Hosebery "Thc reform bin Of
much earlier. foe tho new blood Of Amer.
lea would have burst the old vessels OF
thc constitution II would have pruvided
a sslf-adJustinR system Of representation.
such as now prevails iu tho United States.
whereby The increasing population o. pro
portiouatcly represented. And. at last.
81 hen the Americans became a majority Of
tho ssats. the empire would. perhaps. hev'
been moved solemnlv across the Atlantic
and Great Britain would have become a
historical shrine. the European outpost of
the world empire. what an cxifaordinafy
revolution q would have heen. rhe
greatest known. without bloodahed the
most sublime trausfereuce of power In
the history ~ mankind. our conceptions
can scarcely picture the procession across
the Atlantic Of the greatest sovereign aud
tho greatest fleet in the universe. Min-
lsters governments and Intl ament lie
parilng solcmnly for another hemisphere
Not as iu the case of Portuguese sover-
olgua. eudsratlnR to Brazil under the sp4r
of necessity. but under the vigorous en-
brace of che younger world. America
would have hung onto the skirts of BRIT
ain and Duiied her back ont of European
complcnilons she would have profound
$ affected her foreign policy in he dlrce-
Jon of peace 1nd her influence on her do
mestc Doicy would have been scarcely
Jess potent Probably shc would have
appcased and even con'ontod ireland. Tho
ancient constitution Of Britain would have
been rendered more comprehensive and
more elastic.
"On the other hand. tho American
y.arnius FOR liberty would have taken a
different FORM would have blended with
other traditions ana noatcd into other
m0uds Above all. there would have been
no SEPARATION. no war Or Independence
go war Or 1872 and with all the bitter
memories these have left in America. To
secure that priceless boon could bc sat
lsncd Co see British federal Parliament
sitttn.e la Columbia Territory"