The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-07-12
In His Address Before the American Society," IGn9 The white
Mans Buraen Is His Subject One Of Mr. Brydns Master
pieces
RFpLFTE With GOOD SOUND SENSE!
Civilization Owes the Inferior R&esfduln Comes first and the United
States and tnshd has been More Clearly Helpful the Cause Universal
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not included In It's general purpose.
England has rendered this service to |
the people of India and the United |
States il rendering the same service |
TO the people of the Philippines
while both England and the United
States have been helpful to Japan
and China in this way.
"Rut the advanced nations cannot
content themselves with the confer
ring OF incidental benefits. III they
would Justify their leadership they
must put forth conscious and con-
stant effort for the promotion of the
welfare OF the nations which lag be-
hind. Incidental benefits may follow
even though the real purpose OF ma
tioD is a wholly selfish one. ior as
the sale of Joseph into Egypt result.
ed In blessings To his family aud TO
the land OF the PhaIaohs, SO captiyes
taken In war have sometimes spread
| civilization and blacks carried away
/ into slavery have been improved by
contact with the whites. Hut na-
/ tions can not afford to do evil in the
hope that Providence will transmutc
/ the evil into good and bring bless
| ings out of sin. Nations II they
would he great in the better sense OF
the term, must intend benefit as well
as confer it, they must plan adyan-
tnaN IA -.
chance.
II take Ii for granted that our
duty to the so-called inferior races Is
not discharged by merely feeding
them In times OF famine or by con-
tributing to their temporary support
when some other calamity overtakes
them. A much greater assistance
is rendered them when they are led
to a more elevated plane of thought
and activity 10y ideals which stimu-
late them To self elt-development. The
selves should he the paramount 1b-
ject In all intercourse with the Ori-
ent.
"Among the blessings which the
Christian nations are at this time
able and in duty bound TO carry to
the rest of the world, ! NAV mention
five: education, knowledge OF The
science of government, arbitration
as substitute for war, appreciation
OF the dignity Of labor aud bish
conception Of life.
Education comes first, and In
nothing have the United States and
England been more clearly helpful
than in the advocacy ~ universal ed.
ucation. II the designs of God are
disclosed 10y Ills handiwork, then the
creation OF the human mind Is In.
dubitable proof that the Almighty
never intended that learning should
be monopoized by few. and he ar
, rays himself against the plans OF Je-
, toyah, who would deny intellectual
training 10 any part Of the human
racer II is a false civilization, not a
true one, that couutenances the per.
maDent separation Of society into
two distinct classes, aus one encoui
aged 10 improve the mind and the
other condemned TO hopeless ignoi
ance. Equally false u that eoBcep.
: tiOB Of Internal ional politics which
: would make the prosperity of one ma
, tIon depend upon the exploitation Of
L. lib 80
Z enough 10 estimate with accuracy the
p remote. or even the immediate, con
= sequences Of human action, vet a.
. We can rely upon the principle that
each individual profits rather thar
I loses bv the progress and prosperit'
q OF his neig gbbor>, 80 se cannot doUb
4 that II is to the ADVANTAGE Of eacl
b. nation that every other nation sbal
make the largest possible use Of II
: own resources and the capabilities O
Y its people.
: No one question, that Japan
+ influence has been a beusbcent on
b since she has emerged from illiterac
n and endowed her people with prbli
= schools open to all her bows and girl,
2. The transition from position q
N ol,scuirty Toto world power va
10 scarcely more rapid than her trans
J. tion from menace into an ally
D. China is entering upon a similar e,
1T perience and | am confident that he
p era OF reform will make her, not
re yellow peril but powerful eo-lat1re
at In the international vineyard.
ct India, in the Philippines, in EgyI
n and even In Turkey statistics shO
n a gradual extension Of education an
m | trust | will he pard0ned II 81
De that neither the armies, nor IL