The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-07-05

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phrase coined by poet to whom
America as well as England can lay
some claim, and take for my text The
White Mans Burden
Take up the White Mans burden
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat Of terror
And check the show of pride.
BY open speech and simple.
| An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit,
And work anothers gain"
Thus sings Kipling and, with excep-
ton of the third (of the meaning of
which I am not quiet sure) the stanza
embodies the thought which is upper
most in my mind tonight. No one
can travel among the dark-skinned
races of the Orient without feeling that
| the white man occupies an especially
| favored position among the children of
| men and the recognition of this fact is
! accompanied by the conviction that
there is a duty inseparably connected
with the advantages enjoyed. There
| is d WnlLC man pdloSAA u buA MI
which the white man should not shirk
| even If he could, burden which he
could not shirk even if he would.
| That no one liveth unto himself or
dleth unto himself has national as
well as an individual application.
| Our destinies are so interviewer that
each exerts an influence directly or in
| 4 ~ 81 al
Sometimes this influence is I'M
consciously exerted as when, for in
stance, the good or bad precedent set
by one nation in dealing with its own
affairs is followed by some other ma
ton. Sometimes the influence is in
cidentally exerted as when, for ex-
ample, nation in the extension Of its
commerce introduces its language and
enlarges the horizon Of the people
with whom 1t trades. This incidental
benefit conferred by the opening Of new
markets must be apparent to any one
who has watched the stimulating in
fuence Of the new ideas which have
been introduced into Asia and Africa
through the medium Of the English
language: This Is not the mother
tongue of very many of the worlds
leaders in religion, craftsmanship,
science and literature but it has re-
ceived through translation the best
| that has been written and spoken IN
other countries. He who learns this
language, therefore, is like one who
lives upon a great highway where he
comes into daily contact with the
world.
without disparaging other modern
languages it may be said with truth
that whether one travels abroad or
studies at home there is no other
| language so useful at the present time
as that which we employ Mt this BAN
ouet board and the nation which Is in
strumental in spreading this language
confers an inestimable boon even
| though the comforting Of 1t be not in
cluded in it's general purpose. England
has rendered this service to the people
Of India and the United States is
rendering the same service to the
people of the Philippines, while both
England and the United States have
been helped to Japan and China In this
way.
But the advanced nations cannot con-
tent themselves with the comforting of
incidental beneflts,if they would justify
their leadership they must put forth
conscious and constant effort for the
promotion Of the welfare Of the nations
which lag behind. Incidental benefits
may follow even though the real pur-
pose of a nation is a wholly selfish one,
for as the sale Of Joseph into Egypt re-
suited In blessings to his family and to
the land of the Pharaohs, so captives
taken in war have sometimes spread
civilization and blacks carried away
into slavery have been improved by
contact with the whites, But nations
cannot afford to do evil in the hope
that Providence will transmute the evil
into good and bring blessings out OF
sin. Nations, If they would be great
in the better sense Of the term, must
intend benefit as we'll as confer It, they
must plan advantage, and not leave
the results to chance.
I take it for granted that our duty
to the so-caled inferior races Is not
discharged by merely feeding them In
times of famine or by contributing to
their temporary support when some
other calamity overtakes them. At
much greater assistance is rendered
them when they are led to a more ele-
waited plane of thought and activity by
ideals which stimulate them to self-de-
veopment The Improvement of the
people themselves should be the para
mount object in all intercourse with the
| Orient.
Among the blessings which the
Christian nations are at this time able
and in duty bound---to carry to the rest
of the world,I may mention Ave. edu-
cation, knowledge Of the science of
Government, arbitration as substitute
for war, appreciation Of the dignity of
labor and high conception Of life
Education comes first, and in nothing
have the United States and England
been more clearly helpful than in the
advocacy of universal education. If
the designs of God are disclosed by His
handiwork then the creation of the
human mind Is indubitable proof that
the Almighty never intended that learn
ing should be monopollzed by a few,
and he arrays himself against the plans
| of Jehovah, who would deny intellec-
tual training to any part of the human
! race? 1t is a false civilization, not a
true one, that countenances the perma-
nent separation of society into the dis