Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-01
BRYAN'S TALKS IN JAPAN
Nebraskan Advises Working For
 Welfare of Human Race.
GREATER VICTORIES IN STORE


 Replying to Address of Welcome, He
 Says They will Be Along the Lines
 of Peaceful Development II Hopes
 For Greater Exchanges of Visits
 Between Japanese and Americans.
 How He Defines EIoquence.
 The Japan News tells of a dinner giv- en in Japan in honor of MT. and Mrs. Bryan by the America's Friends asso- ciation. Responding to Baron Kane kos address of welcome, MT. Bryan said:
 T appreciate more than words can express your cordial reception and this opportunity of addressing those who have shown their interest in the United States by attending its colleges. I thank Baron Kaneko for the kind words spoken by him in regard to my self and on behalf of my countrymen. reciprocate most heartily his expres- sions of friendship for the United States. He speaks of our countries as surrounding the Pacific and trusts that the relations between the two nations may always be pacific. When I began to read history thought that the Medi- terranean sea separated the Roman empire into number of parts, but I soon learned that the sea was really great highway which united the em. pire. And so the Pacific ocean Is bond of union between our land and yours, and allow me to express the hope that all our differences may be drown ed in it's depths and that our sym pathies may be united by it's waters.
 "As the members of this society have paid my country high compliment by visiting it for the purpose of study so one of your members paid me the high est compliment I ever received. When only eighteen he conceived the idea of visiting my home to study the science of government. Crossing wide ocean and travelling nearly 2,000 miles inland, he became member of our family. He remained with us for more than five years, and his excellent conduct and exemplary habits gave us very fa- vorable opinion of the Japanese. 1t was an ideal that led this boy to cross the Pacific, and 1t was an ideal that led each or you to go to America to pursue your studies. The ideal Is a most important thing, for it is not only permanent, but it controls the life. Give man bread and he will hunger again, give him clothing and his cloth ing will wear out, but give him high ideal, and that ideal will be with him through every working hour, lifting him to higher plane in life and giv- ing him a higher conception of his re- lations to his fellow men. Nations also have ideals. Some individuals think only of what they get from others, while some think rather of what they can do for others. So with nations; they may have a low ideal and spend their energies in selfish endeavor to get the best of other nations or they may have high ideal and try to bene- fit the world. E7h9N
 There is no reason why nations should not be mutually helpful. Each nation is able to do some things better than any other nation. Each nation can learn something from other na- tons, and each nation can impart knowledge hope that more of your people will visit our country and more of our people will visit your country in order that each may in the fullest measure help the other.
 while Japan has astonIshed the world by her valor and success on land and sea she has greater victories before her along the lines of peaceful develop ment Carlyle, in concluding bis book on the French revolution, says that thought is stronger than artillery parks, but that love is even stronger than thought Let me close with the hope that good will may exist between us and between all nations and that the rivalry may be. not to see which can injure each other most, but which can contribute most to the welfare of the human race"
 In a speech of some length to the stu dents at Waseda, Mir. Bryan incidental ly defined the meaning of eloquence:
 "Now. what is eloquence7 What is oratory? There are people who lm- agine that with the coming of the news paper the opportunity of the orator dis appears. There never will be a time when there will be no place for elo- quence. Whenever great interests are at stake. whenever people feel deeply upon great issues. there will be elo- quence. and 10 were going to define eloquence I would define 1t as the speech of one who knows what he Is taking about and means what he says. There are two things that, the public speaker must have He must have in- formation. because if he does not know anything he cannot tell anything to anybody else. He must know what he Is talklng about: he must he informed upon his subject, and he must be ear nest A great Latin poet said nearly 2-000 years ago:
 If you would draw tears from the eyes
 Of others.
 Yourself the sign of grief must show"