The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1906-07-13
BRYAN CENTRAL FIGURE
AT SOCIETY BANQUET
ives Hi, Views as TO How The Re. pie Of The Orient Should
be Treated
be Treated

London, July 4-William j. Bryan
was the central figure al the Indepen-
Cence Day dinner OF the American So
ciety al the Hotel Cecil tonight. Near
~ five hundred members and guests
surrounded the sOciety's board and
cheered patriotic sentiments with the
peculiar zest born Of exile. Ambassa-
dor Whitelaw Reid and Mr.. Bryan
engaged in some sharp, but good
humored, railleTy and banter over
political differences, the crowd evinc-
IT its enjoyment Of the sport with
cheers and shouts of laughter.
Mr.. Reid, in responding to Sir. w. B.
Richmond's graceful proposal of his
health, said, with reference to Mr..
Bryan:
AT home, as a citizen, l have open
ly and squarely opposed him at every
stage Of his conspicuous career. | am
reasonably sure that when | return
home | shall continue to do the same.
| believe he tonight is as we'll satisfied
as | am, though by different reasoning
that the country We both love and try
to serve has not been ruined by its
gold. Abroad, as the official represen-
tatiVe of the American people, without
distinction as to party, | am glad to
W~pIC0n1o him here &C q fvnic91 Annori-
can whose whole life has been lived in
the daylight and one whom such a
great host of my countrymen have long
trusted and hOnored."
A WITTY REJOINDER.
Mr.. Bryan, rising amid laughter and
cheers, said:
The temptation to make a politi-
cal speech is strong with me. | have
not had a chance to SO for 10 months.
However, | will restrain myself. With
reference to the Ambassadors re-
marks on gold | wish to say that when
| see the progress my country has
made walking on one leg | wonder
what it would have done walking
on two legs. 1t is pleasing to testify
that the Ambassador not only has
OuSIG ule, Dul lldI ue Has zone II
we'll. No American %rejOices more
than L that he is 5000 miles from his
base. While abroad I have met many
good repnblicans-holding ofice-and
I only wish there were enough Offices
abroad to take all the republicans
out of the country
Chairman F. w. Jones proposed the
health of King Edward, and Hayward
Greenwood, president of the Canadian
Society and member Of Parliament fSS'
the city of York, proposed for the
health of President Roosevelt. When
they arose to drink tO the tOasts the
crowd discovered Mrs. Nicholas Long
with in the galledy and cheered and
drank her health.
MR.. BRYAN'S FORMAL SPEECH.
Following the passage between Am
bassador Reid and Mr.. Bryan the lat
ter read his formal speech.
Quoting a stanza of Kingling's poem,
THE White Man Burden" he said:
THE stanza embOdies the thought
which is uppermost in my mind to-
night. No one can travel among the
dark-skinned races of the Orient with
out feeling that the white man Occu-
pies an especially favored position
among the children Of men, and the
recognition of this fact is accOmpan-
led by the conviction that there is a
duty~inseparably connected with the
advantages enjoyed. There is a white
mans burden-a burden which the
white man should not shirk. even if
he could: a burden which he could
-o+ cL;~I- avon If no wOllH That no
one liveth unto himself or dieth unto
himself has a national Is we'll as an
individual application. Our destinies
are SO interviewer that each exerts an
influence directly or indirectly upon all
others.
without disparaging other modern
languages it may be said with truth
that whether n travels abroad or
studies at home there is no language
so useful al the present time as that
which we employ at this banquet board
and the nation which is instrumental
in spreading this language confers
an inestimable boon. even though the
{ comforting of it be not included in its
general purpose. England has rem
Gered this service to the people OF IL
dia and the United States is render
ing the same service TO the people
of the Philippines. while both Eng
land and the United States have been
helpful to Japan and China in this
way.
THE NATIONS DUTY.
Il take it for granted that u duty
to the s~o-called inferior races is not
discharged by merely feeding them in
! times of famine or by contributing TO
their temporary support when some
calamity overtakes them. A much
greater assistance is rendered them
when they are led 10 a more elevated
plane of thought and activity by Ideals
which stimulate them to self-develop-
ment. The Improvement of the people
themselves should be the paramount
object in all intercourse with the
Orient.
Among the blessings which the