The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1906-07-06
". !. BRYAN .
At the Fourth of July
Banquet in London
Speaks On the "White
Mans Burden"

Bryan was tne principal guest Ol non
or at the annual Fourth of July ban
quet given last night in the Hotel
Cecil. by the American society. Mr.
Bryan delivered the first speech he
has made since his boom for the pres
idential nomination in 1908 was
launched.
In the course of his speech, Mr.
Bryan. suggested that all international
disputes should be referred to arbitra.
ton commissions. Mr. Bryan declar-
ed that such proceeding would re-
suits in almost every case in amicable
adjustment of differences.
Mr.. Bryan spoke in part as follows
THE memory of the evening spent
with the American society, Thanksgiv-
ing day two years and a half ago,
was such pleasant one that l am
very thankful to be with you again.
Asking your attention to such a
theme it is not uniting to adopt n
phrase coined by poet to whom Am
erica as well as England can lay some
claim, and take for my text The
White Mans Burden
mo 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.
DIGNITY OF LABOR.
Let me go a step further and ap-
peal for clearer recognition of the
rests upon the work of the hand has
exerted a baneful influence the world
around. The theory that idleness is
more honorable than work-that it is
more respectable to consume what
others have produced than to be a
producer of wealth-has not only rob.
bed society of an enormus sum but
it has created an almost impossible
gulf between the lower classes and
those who support them. Because
some imagine themselves above work
while others see them nothing but a
life of drudgery, there is constant
warning and much of bitterness. When
men and women become ashamed of
doing nothing and strive to give to
society full compensation for all thev
receive from society there will be
harmony between the classes.
while Europe and America have
advanced far beyond the Orient in
who work, even our nations have not
yet fully learned the lesson that en-
ployment and some of the variou2
trades and vocations that are essen
tial to our lives, are very uplifting
in character. The agricultural col
leges and industrial schools which
have sprung up in so many localities
are evidence that a higher education
is spreading among the people
NEED OF THE ORIENT.
And now we come to the most I'm.
portant need of the Orient-a concep
tion of life which recognizes individ
ual responsibility TO God, teaches the
brotherhood of man and measures
greatness by the service rendered
The first establishes rational rela.
tion between the creature and ms
creator, the second lays the folnda.
tiOn for justice between man and his
fellows and the third furnishes an
large enough to fill each life
with noble effort. No service which
we can render to the less favored ma.
tions can compare In value to this
service, for if we can but bring their
people to accept such an ideal they
will rival the Orient in their contr;-
button to civilization. If this ideal
which must be accepted as the true
one if our religion is true-had been
more perfectly illustrated in the lives
Of Christians and in the conduct os
Christian nations there would now be
less OF the white mans burden
IF it is legitimate to seek anoth
er's profit and to work another's
gain how can this service best be
rendered? This has been the disput-
ed point. Individuals and nations have
differed less about the purpose to be
accomplished than about the method
to be employed. Prosecutions have
been carried on for the benefit of the
persecutor, wars have been waged for
the alleged improvement of those at
tackled and still more frequently phil
anthrophy has been imbued with sci.
fish interest. II the superior nations
have a mission it is not to wound va
to heal-not to cast down but to lift
up, and the means must be an exam.
plea far more powerful and enduring
means than violence.
Can we doubt the efficacy of ex-
ample in the light of history? There
has been great interest in education
in the last century and the school
houses have not been opened by the
bayonet; they owe their existence to
the moral influence which neighboring
nations exert upon each other
While in America and in Europe
there is much to be corrected and alb
undant room for improvement there
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