The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1906-12-21
BRYCE AN EXCEPTION
Probable British Ambassador
a Student Of America.
ENTERTAINS DECIDED VIEWS
Diplomat Has Written COmPrehen-
siveIy About the Negro Question,
United states Navy, Monroe Doc
trIne, Future Of south, Territorial
Expansion, and other Subjects.

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at London who is slated to come 20 this |
country as British Ambassador, to sue
coed Sir Mortimer Durand. is great ex-
ception to the general rule Of representa- |
tives Of foreign governments accredited |
to the United States. inasmuch as he has
made a thorough and most particular in
vestigauon Of all questions pertaining 10
the American body polite. as well as
American characteristics And. unless
Mr.. Bryce has changed his apinion on
these subjects since he first penned them
in 1875, be entertains most decided views
on questions which are this day before
the American people.
Discusses Negro Question.
In discussing the negro question in the
South. Mr.. Bryce has written.
But for one difficulty. the South might
well he thought To be the most promis-
/ ing part Of the Union: that part whose
advance is likely 90 be swiftest, and
whose prosperity will be not the least
/ secure. The difficulty is a serious one.
/ IT lies in the presence Of seven millions
of negroes"
After summing up the existing condi-
/ tons, Mr. Bryce says:
First. The negro viii stay in North
/ America
Second. He viii stay locally intermixed
with the white population.
Third. He viii stay socially distinct. as
| an alien element unabsorbed and unab-
/ sorbable.
His position, may, however. change
/ from what II is now. Two changes in
/ particular seem probable He viii more
ana more draw Southwark into the lower
and hotter regions along the coasts of
+ the Atlantic and Gulf % Mexico. Wheth-
er in the more Nor;herly States such as
Maryland and Missouri, be will decrease,
may be doubtful But il is certainty IN
/ those Southerly regions that his chief
/ future increase may be expected.
Collision Between Races.
This change viii have both its good
and its evil side. II may involve less fire.
/ quent occasions for collision between the
/ two races. and may dispose the negroes,
where they are comparatively few, to &C
/ quiesce less reluctantly in white pre-
/ dominance. But il will afford scautier op-
p0rtuuiJies for the gradual elevation Of
/ the race in the districts where they aye
{
/ is the chief condition for the progress Of
/ the negro. Where be is isolated, OF
where he greatly outnumbeTs the whites
/ his advance Will be retarded. although
nothing has Yet occurred 10 justify the
/ fear that he viii. even along the Gulf
4 Coast. or IN the sea islands Of the Caro-
/ Ina, sink % the level OF the Haytian
/ And as the present differences between
/ the African and the European are the
/ product Of thousands of years during
which one race was advancing IN the
! temperate, and the other remaining sta
( tionary in the torrid zone. so centuries
/ may pass before their relations as neigh
bors and feIlow-citizens have been duly
/ adjusted"
Touches on American Navy.
As to the question Of an American navy.
/ Mr.. Bryce's views are Of the deepest in
tcrest at this time. He said:
I THE cry which is sometimes raised for
a large Increase in the United States feet
seems to a European observer unwise; for
/ the power Of the United States TO protect
/ her citizens abroad is not 10 be measured
by the number Of vessels or guns she pos
sesses. but by the fact that there is no
/ power in the world which VIII not lose far
more than it can possibly gain by quarreling
/ with a nation which could. in case Of war.
( so vast are its resources. not only create
an armored fleet, but speedily equip swift
/ vessels which would destroy the com
merce OF It's antagonist. The possession
Of powerful ornaments is apt to inspire a
wish to use them.
/ None Of Mr.. Bryce's views will have
/ greater interest than those which deal
with the question OF territorial extension
10 A.
eral attitude toward international ques-
tons, the following remarks are worth
quoting
Has No Military Class.
As there is no military class. so also
there is no class which feels Itself called
on TO feel concerned with foreign affairs,
and least Of all is such a class to be found
among the politicians. Even leading
(American) statesmen are often strangely
ignorant of European diplomacy much
more than the average Senator or Con-
gresham. And into the mind of the whole
people there has sunk deep the idea that
all such matters belong TO the bad order
of the old world; and that the true way
for the model republic to influence that
world is to avoid its errors, and set an
example Of pacific industrialism.
Such abstinence from old-world affairs
is the complement TO that claim Of right
20 prevent any European power from at
tempting TO obtain a controlling influence
in new-world affairs which goes by the
name Of the Monroe doctrine. None
the less does the idea that the United States
is entitled 70 forbid any new establish
ment by any European power on its own
continent still survive. and, indeed, con-
st1tUte the one fixed principle OF foreign
policy which every party and. indeed
every statesman processes. 1t is less need
ed now than it was I'm Monroe's day, be-
cause the United States has grown so i'm
mense in strength that no European
power can constitute a danger TO them
Nevertheless il was asserted in 1850 and
led to Louis Napoleon's abandonment Of
his Mexican schemes. 1t would have been
asserted had the Panama Canal been COM
pleted (by the French.
1t is at the basis of the claim occa-
sionally put forward to control the pro-
jected Nicaragua interOceanic canal, and
it is supported by the argument that
a waterway between the Atlantic and Pa
eiic IS Of far more consequence, not only
in a commercial but military sense, to
the United States than to any other
power"
Regarding CanRda's Future.
Upon the question of Canada's future.
Mr. Bryce says plainly that England will
consider Canada perfectly free to choose
her own destiny and ne holds that the
United States VIII never, under any cir
cumstances, be disposed to bring pres
sure TO bear for Canadian annexation.
Mr.. Bryce eXonerates the United States
absolutely from any disposition to make
territorial conquests in the European i'm
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