The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-07-05

A..ociatea Press Cable to The Evening
Times.
London. July 5.-William ]. Bryan
was the central figure at the annual
independence day dinner of the Ameri-
can society at the Hotel Cecil last
evening. Nearly 500 members and
guests surrounded the society's board
and cheered the patriotic sentiments
with the peculiar zest born of exile.
Amba ssador Whitelaw Reid and Mr..
Bryan engaged in some sharp but good
humored rivalry and banter over poll
teal differences, the crowd evincing
its enjoyment of the sport with cheers
and shouts of laughter.
Mr.. Bryan spoke at length upon the
subject The White Mans Burden"
He said:
The subject of Mr.. Bryan's address
was The White Mans Burden" He
said
The memory of the evening spent
with the American society, Thanksgiv-
ing day two and half years ago, is
such pleasant one that esteem my
self fortunate to be able to accept the
invitation so kindly extended by our
distinguished ambassador, Hon. White
law Reid, to be your guest on this
occasion. Our English friends, under
whose flag We meet tonight, recalling
that this is the anniversary of our ma
tons birth; would doubtless pardon
US if our rejoicing contained some
thing of self-congratulation, for it is
at such times as this that we are wont
to review those national achievements
which have given to the United States
Its prominence among the nations.
But hope shall not be thought lack
ing in patriotic spirit IL, instead of
drawing picture of the past, bright
with heroic deeds and unparalleled in
progress, | summon you rather to a
serious consideration of the respon-
stbilities resting upon those nations
which aspire to premiership. This
line of thought is suggested by sense
of prOpriety as we'll as by recent ex-
periences-by sense Of propriety be-
cause such a subject will interest the
Briton as we'll as the American, and
by recent experiences because they
have impressed me not less with our
national duty than with the superior
ity of western over eastern civilization.
Asking you attention to such
theme it is not uniting to adopt
phrase coined by poet to whom
some claim. and take for my text,
1.-THE White Mans Burden"
Take up the White Mans burden
In patience to abide,
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show Of pride.
BY open speech and simple.
An hundred times made plain,
To seek anOther'S profit,
And work anOther's gain"
Thus sings Kipling and, with the
exception of the third line (of the
meaning of which / am not quite sure)
the stanza embodies the thought which
Is uppermOst in my mind tonight. No
one can travel among the dark-skinned
races of the Orient without feeling
that the white man occupies an es-
pecially favored position among the
children of men and the recognition
of this fact Is accompanied by the con-
viction that there Is duty INSOFAR
ably connected with the advantages
enjoyed. There is a white mans bur-
den-a burden which the white man
should not shirk even IL he could, a
burden which he could not shirk even
If he would. That no one liveth unto
himself or dieth unto himself has q
national as we'll as an individual ap-
plication. Our destinies are SO inter-
woven that each exerts an influence
directly or indirectly upon all others.
Sometimes this influence is uncon-
sciously exerted as when, for instance.
the good or bad precedent set by one
nation in dealing with its own affairs
is followed by some other nation
Sometimes the influence is incident
ally exerted as when, for example,
nation in the extension of it's COM
merce introduces its language and en-
larges the horizon of the people with