Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1906-07-11
WHITE MANS BURDEN
Subject of Bryan's 18th of July
Speech in London

dependence Day dinner Of the
American Society at the Hotel
Cecil in London last Wednesday
night. Nearly 500 members and
guests surrounded the society's
board and cheered patriotic senti-
ments with the peculiar zest bern
of exile.
Ambassador Whitslaw Reid and
Mr.. Bryan engaged in some sharp,
but good-humored, ralllery and
banter, the crowd evincing its en-
JOY ment of the sport with cheers
and shouts of laughter.
Mr.. Reid in responding to Sir
W.B. Richmond's graceful proposal
after his nealth said with reference
60 Mr.. Bryan: "At home as a
citizen / have openly and squarely
opposed him at every stage of his
conspicuous career.I am reasonably
sure that when | return home ]
shall continue to do the same. /
[ believe he tonight is az we'll satisf-
ed as l am, though by different
ressoning,tha the country we both
love and try to serve has not been
ruined by its gold.
"Abroad, as the official repre-
sentative of the American people
without distinction as to party, |
am glad TO welcome him here az a
typical Amer lean, whose whole life
has ben lived in the daylight, and
one whom such a great host Of my
countrymen have long trusted and
honored.'
Mr.. Bryan, rising amid laughter
and cheers, said:
"The temptation to make a
political speech IL strong within
me. | have not had chance to
do so for ten months. However, l
will restrain myself. With reference
20 the Ambassadors remarks on
gold, | wish to say that when |
see the progress my country has
made walking on one leg, l wonder
what it would have done walking
on two legs
at is pleasing to testify that
the Ambassador not only has
fought me but that be has done it
well. No American rejoices more
tEan that he is three thousand
miles from his base. While abroad
/ have met many good Republicans
holding ofilce-and | only wish
there were enough offices abroad
to take all the Republicans out of
tie country"
Following the passage between
Ambassador Reid and Mr.. Bryan,
the latter delivered his formal
speech on the "White Man s
Burden" his introductory remarks
being;
1.-THE memory of the evening
spent with the American Society,
Thanksgiving Day two and a MALT
years ago, is such a pleasant one
that l esteemed myself fortunate
to he able to accept the invitation
so kindly extended by our dis
tinguished Ambassador, Hon.
Whitelaw Reid, TO be your guest
on this occasion.
"Our English friends, under
whose flag we meet tonight. re-
calling that this is the anniversary
of our nations birth, would
doubtless pardon uslif our rejoicing
contained something of selfcon-
graduation, for it is at such times
az this that we are wont to review
those national achievements which
thave given to the United States its
prominence among the Nations.
"But l hope l shall not be
thoua hit lacking in patriotic spirit
if, instead of drawing picture
of the past, bright with heroic
deeds and unparalleled in progress,
| summon you rather to a serious
consideration of the responsibility
resting upon nations which aspire
to premiership. This line of
thought is suggested by sense OF
propriety ss well as by recent ex-
perience-by sense Of propriety
because such a subject will interest
the Briton ne wall as the Ameri-
can, and by recent experiences be-
cause they have Impressed me not
less with our nstional duty than
with the superiority of Western
owe astern civilization"
Some of the striking phrases
used by Mr.. Bryan were:
That no one liveth unto himself
or dieth unto himself has a national
and an individual application.
The improvement of the people
themselves should be the paramount
object of all intercourse with the
Orient.
If the designs of God are dis
closed by His handiwork. then the
creation of the human MIND is
indubitable proof that the Al
mighty never intended that learn
ing should be monorolized by a
few.
Equally false is that conception
of interr ational politics which
would make the prosperity CT one
nation depend upon the exploita-
ton of another.
The English language has be-
come the vehicle for the conveyance
Of Governmental truth.
Whether one travels abroad OF
studiaa at home. there ia nc