New-York tribune., 1906-07-05
sressh. The subject Of which was The White

! he memory Of the evening spent with the Amer
wears ago is such a pleasant one that esteem
~ 11ilate 20 oe able TO accept the invitation
hassador, the Hon. Whitelaw Reid. 20 be your
Nhcse fag We meet tonight. recalling that this Is
5he anniversary Of our nations birth. would doubt
@ ses-oongratulation for il is at such times as
aehlesenents which have % given 70 the Tnitea
states ITS prominence among the nations. But
s6r if nstead Of dra%hg pctuTe Of Of tRe psst
sIghs with heroic deeds and unparalleled in prog
s.on OF the responsibility resting upon those ma.
shogsht is suggested by a sense OF propriety as
vel ~ by recent eapsTienees-by sense OF pro-
ton q s as sT e aessn SGss snd Ma by recent
With our national duty than with the superiority OF
western over Eastern civilization.
uniting . aaopt phrase coined by poet 70
snoln america IS Wen as England can iay some some
Burden
FAKE uP the White Mans burden
IN patience 20 abide
And cheek the show Of pride.
To seek another'g profit.
And work anothers gain.
Thus sings Kipllns and, with the exception OF
the third Nns Sot the meaning Of when ann ,9 not
S upperEaost in my mind tonight. No can
fEayel among the dark skinned races OF the Orient
WITHOUT feeling that the white man occupies an
especially favored position among the children Of
panied by the conviction that there is duty insep-
srably connected with the advantages enjoyed.
she white man should not shirlk even if he could,
as wt.lSn ls SO.le hSt sNA essn En-. a o "ae- s
self has national as well as an individual appli-
exsrts influence directly or indirectly upon all
Sometimes this influence is unconsclousIy exerted,
as when, tQr. instance. the good or bad precedent
foIior'ed 81 some other nation Sometimes the in
fuence is incidentally eXeTted as when for example
rs laguage and enaTgsS the hoTizon Of The people
ferred by the opening Of new markets must be ap-
parent 70 any one who has watched the stimulating
dresa into Asia and Africa through the medium Of
We 1fg.lsn language. TINS Is not the mother
liso1, statesEanship science ana literature but IL
bean written and spoken in other countries. He
who learns this language, therefore, is like who
daily, contact with the world. Without disparaging
5af weser one tTSes abroad or studies sat at home
iheEe IS no other language useful at the present
boaTa, and a.. the nation which is nstFglasntqI IN
even though the conferTing OF Il be not included in
SITS general purpose. England has rendered this
I9'lSs siS5l Petb Fe5a1d NJ S a5 t6a T2n,taS ~
States have been helpful to Japan and China in this
But the advanced nations cannot content them
selves with the conferring OF incidental benets if
they would justify their leadership they must put
forth conscious and constant effort for the promo
ton OF the welfare OF the nations which lag behind
purpose OF nation is q wholly selfish one for az
The sale Of Joseph into Egypt resulted in blessings
hon and ss M errje5 GaS into ss cIv1l Ss
tlons cannot afford to do evil in the hope that Prov
Blessings out Of sS Nations 9 4 Rey R1 would b bs
great IN the better sense Of the term must intend
vantages. and not leave the results TO chance.
DUTIES TO so-CAILED INTERIORS.
take Z for gEaatssd that our duty 70 the So
feeding them in times Of famine or by contributing
calamity overtakes them much greater assist
ance is rendered them when they are led to a more
which stimulate them to seif-deveiopment The
Improvement OF the people themselves should be
the paramount object in all intercourse with the
Among the blessings which the Christian nations
are at this time able and in duty bound to carry
70 the rest of the world l may mention five: Edu-
arbitration as a substitute for war appreciation
q the dignity Of labor and high conception of
Education comes first and in nothing have the
United States and England been more clearly help
ful than in the advocacy of universal education.
IT the designs OF God are disclosed by His handl-
Notk, men the cTe4LlQn OF the human MIND Is ln-
dubifable proof that the Almighty never intended
he arrays himself against the plans of Jehovah
who would deny intellectual training TO any part
OF the human race. II is false civilization not
epsrsfion Of societ, into two SisincT classes the
one encouraged to improve the mind and the other
condemned 90 hopeless ignorance. Equally false
S that conception of International politics which
would make the prosperity Of one nation depend
upon the exploitation Of another While no one
IS far sighted enough to estimate with accuracy
the remote or even the immediate consequences of
cDle that each individual profits rather than loses
by the progress and prosperity of his neighbors
nation that every other nation shall make the
largest possible of its resources and the
80 one questions that Japan's influence has been
rsey and endowed her people with public schsoIs,
q position of obscurity into world power
scarcely more rapid than her transition from
menace into an ally. China is entering upon
similar experience; and am confident that her
era pf reform will make her. not a yellow peril,
vard fn india ia the Pbiiippines in EevDt and
even IN Turkey. statistics show a gradual extension
say thas neither the armies nor the nayies nor
sci the commerce OF our nations has given US so
JEt > claim TO the gratitude OF the people of Asia
by private rather than by public funds.
The English language has become the vehicle for
& r e SPREAD re of gesrs iTa sSf0 more Gf
beginning with Magma CsaTta and continuing
Ingough the era OF the American Revolution and the
Declaration Of Independence down to the present,
20 language has been SO much employed for the
traces governmental authority 10 the consent Of the
governed. Our own nation presents the most
fllustrious example known to history of a great
Population working out it's destiny through laws
ehoosn atoSsh may add V We Scarcely 9 g 20 0 Se
YONG snslanG In recognizing the onnipotence OF
overestimate che potency Of this conception OF
government upon the progress Of nation, and in
turning the thought OF the world away from des-
p2tism 70 the possibilities Of self-goveTnmeRt the
Eible. An idea viii sometimes revoIutionize an
individual, community, a state nation or even a
world, and the idea that man possesses inalenable
rights which the state did not give and which the
state, though II can deny. cannot take away, has
claim their Csod-given nheritarce While the era
q constitutional liberty is ever widening. while
every year decreasing. the leaders Of the worlds
fnopgaa, neE only the English speaking nations but
% DO ln teaching reverence for the will of the