Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-05

other nation shall make the largest possible use of its own resources and the capabilities of it's people.
 "No ore questions that Japan's in fluence Las been beneficent one since she has emerged from illiteracy and endowed her people with public schools open to all her boys and girls. The transition from position of ob- scurity into world power was scarce ly more rapid than her transition from a menace into an ally. China is en- tering upon similar experience and I am confident that her era of reform will make her, not a yellow peril but powerful co-laborer in the inter- national vineyard. In India, in the Philippines, in Egypt and even in Tur- key statistics show a gradual exten- sion of education and I trust I will be pardoned if 1 say that neither the armies nor the nayies, nor yet the commerce of our nations, have given us so just claim to the gratitude of the people of Asia as have our school teachers, sent, many of them, by private rather than by public funds.
 "The English language has become the vehicle for the conveyance of governmental truth even more than for the spread of general informa- tioB, for, beginning with Magma Char ter and continuing through the era of the American revolution and the Declaration of Independence down to the present, TO language has been so much employed for the propagation of -h.T thonrr nf nnf xzyhirr traces governmental authority to tie consent of the governed. Our own nation presents the most illustriouS example known to history of a great population working out its destiny under officials'of its own choosing, al though, I may add, we scarcely go beyond England in recognizing ths omnipotence of a parliament fresh from the people. It is difficult to cverestimate the potency of this coI- ception of government upon the prog ress of nation and, in turning the thought of the world away from des- potism to the possibilities of self government, the pioneers of freedom made Western civilization possible. An idea will some times reyoluIioniZe an individual a community, state, a ration or even a world, and the idea that man possesses inalienable rights which the state did not given and which the state, though it can deny, cannot take away. has made millions of human beings stand erect and claim their God-given inheritance. While the era of constitutional iber- ty is ever widening, while the tyranny ard insolence of arbitrary power are1 every year decreasing, the leaders of the worlds thought, not only the English speaking nations but the oth- CT Christian zatiOns as well, have yet much to do in teaching reverence for the will of the majority and respect for the public servants upon whom the people bestow authority.
 "'The Christian nations must lead the movement for the promotion of peace, not only because they are en- listed under the banner of the Prince of Peace, but also because they have attained such degree of intelligence that they can no longer take pride in a purely physical victory. The belief that moral questions can be settled by the shedding of human blood is a relic Ot DdfDdFlSiH, lO uOnDt tue uSHdlh4S power of righteousness is infideiity to truth itself. That nation which is un-| willing to trust Its cause to the uni yersal conscience or which shrinks from the presentation of its claims before a tribunal where reason holds sway betrays a lack of faith in the soupdness of it's position. I venture to suggest that the worlds peace would be greatly promoted by an agreement among the leading nations thas no declaration of war should be