The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-12-13
JAPANESE HEAR Mr.. BRYAN's ELooUENCE
Nebraskan Advises Working Welfare Reply
ing to Address of Welcome He Advises Them
Along the Line of Peaceful Development.

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citation. Responding to Baron Kane
kos address Of welcome, Mr. Bryan
said:
81 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 it's colleges. l
thank Baron Kaneko for the kind
words spoken by him in regard to my
self and on behalf of my countrymen.
l reciprocate most heartily his express
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 l began
to read history l thought that the Medi-
terranean sea separated the Roman
empire into a number of parts, but
soon learned that the sea was really a
great highway which united the en-
pire And so the Pacific ocean is a
bond of union between our land and
yours, and allow me to express the hope
that all our differences may be drown
ed in its 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 | ever received. When
only eighteen he conceived the idea of
visiting my home to study the science
of government. Crossing a wide ocean
and travelling nearly 1000 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 ia
vorable opinion of the japanese. 1t
was an ideal that led this boy to cross
the Pacific, and it was an ideal that
led each OF 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 a 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 a higher plane in life and CIV
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 a selfish endeavor to
get the best of other nations or they
may have high ideal and try to bene
fit the world.
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 ma
tons, and each nation can impart
knowledge. 1 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.
"WhiIe Japan has astonished the
world by her valor and success on land
her along the lines Of peaceful develop
ment. Carlyle, in concluding his 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
iIture 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, Mr.. Bryan incidental
" defined the meaning of eloquence:
NOW, what is eloquence? What Is
oratory? There are people who i'm
agine that with the coming Of the news
paper the opportunity Of the orator dis
appears. There never will be 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-
duence. and if / were going to define
eloquence | would define it as the
speech Of one who knows what he is
talking 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 talking about; he must be Informed
upon his subject, and he must be ear
nest. A great Latin poet said nearly
1000 years ago:
'If you would draw tears from the eyes
of others,
Yourself the sign of grief must show"