The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-05
|BRY AN And REID
HAVE LIVELY TILT
Nebraskan at Fourth" Celebra
I tion in London Emphasizes
White Mans Burden.

ton in London Emphasizes
White Mans Burden.
London, July s5.---William J. Bryan
was the. central figure at the annual
Independe nce Day dinner Of the Ameri-
can society at the Hotel Cecil last night.
Nearly 500 members and guests sur
rounded the society's board and cheered
patriotic sentiments with the peculiar
zest born Of exile. Ambassador White
law Reid and Mr.. Bryan engaged in
some sharp but good-hpmored raillery.
Mr.. Reid said with reference to Mr..
Bryan: "
AT home, as citizen, have open-
ly. and squarely opposed him at every
stage Of his conspicuous career. am
reasonably sure that when return
home l shall continue to do the same.
I believe he tonight is as well satisfied
as !, tho by different reasoning, that
the, country we love and try to serve
has not been ruined by it's gold stand
ard. AS the official representative Of
him here as typical American whose
whole life has been lived in the day
light and one whom such a great host
o of my 5on eoa9trymen have long trusted
Bryan's Retort.
Mr.. Bryan, arising amid laughter and
cheers, said:
"The temptation to make political
speech is strong within me. I have not
had chance to do 50 for ten months.
However, I will restrain myself. With
reference, to the ambassador g remarks
on gold, I wish to say that, when I
see the progress my country has made
walking on one leg, l wonder what 1t
would have done walking on two legs.
1t is pleasing to testify that the am
bassador not only has fought me, but
that he has done it we'll. No Ameri-
can rejoices more than I that he is
5000 miles from his base. While abroad
1 nave met many. good republican,
holding offce--and / only wish there
were enough offices abroad to take all
the republicans out Of my country
Chairman F. w. Jones proposed the
health Of King Edward, and Hayward
Greenwood, president Of the Canadian
society and member Of parliament for
the city of York, proposed the health
Of President Roosevelt. When they
arose to drink to the toasts the crowd
discovered Mrs. Nicholas Longworth in
the gallery and cheered and drank he1
health. She acknowledged the tribute
by standing.
Scandals Alluded. To.
John l.. Griffiths, the American con.
sui general at Liverpool, answered fol
the guests and won rounds Of applause
when, he compared the financial and
meat packing scandals Of the United
States. to. spots on the sun, and pai6
his respects to those who could see the
spots but not the sun.
The American and British flags were
draped about the room and the orches
guests included Paul Morton, New
York;; Franklin McVeagh, Chicago
Consul General Wynne, Isaac Seligman
New York; Representative Nicholas
| Longw Cincinnati; J. G. A. Leish
man, American ambassador to Turkey
| Sir II. H. Macmillan and Admira
Sterling.
During the dinner Ambassador Reit
read a letter from Queen Alexandr;
expressing keen sorrow over the Sails
| bury railway disaster. --~-
''The White Mans Burden.'
The subject Of Mr.. Bryan's addres
was ''The White Man IS Burden. - II
i said in part:
4 81 no. pc I shall not be thought lack
ing in patriotic spirit if, instead O
drawing "a picture Of the past, brigh
! with heroic deeds and unparalleled i
j progress, l summon you rather to a sc
rious consideration Of the responsibilit
i to premiership. ..,,
! 5"Asking your. attention to such
| theme it is not uniting to adapt
phrase coined by poet to whom Amer
lea as well as England can lay som
claim, and take for my text eth
White Man s Burden."&
4 "Take up the white mans burden
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat Of terror sgsf
And check the show Of PRIDE
4 BY open speech and simple, =
n An hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit,
l. And work another's gain"
emo one can travel among the darl
skinned races of the orient withor
feeling that the white man occupit
an especially favored position anon
the children of men, and the recogn
ton of this fact is accompanied by tt
conviction that there is a duty insepa
ably connected with the advantages e1
joyed. There is a white mans burde
IA burden which the white man ShOul
not shirk even if he could, a burde
which he could not shirk even if /
would. That no one liveth unto hir
self or dieth unto himself has a n
/ tional as well as an individual apple
r ton. Our destinies are so interwove
> that each exerts an influence direct
3 or indirectly upon all others.
!, Must Help Tagging Nations.
"The, advanced nations cannot CO
l tent themselves with the comforting
: incidental benefits. If they would JUS
t fly their leadership they mtfst put for
+ conscious and costant effort for Il
), promotion Of the welfare Of the natio
7 which lag behind. Incidental benef
r may follow even tho the real purpo
Of q nation is wholly selfish one. B
= nations cannot afford to do evil In t
1 hope that Providence will transmu
the evil into good and bring blessin
s out of sin. Nations, if they would
great in the better sense Of the ter
must intend benefit as we'll as confer
they must plan advantage, and n
/ leave the results to chance.
y Among the blessings which t
>, Christian nations are at this time al