Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-05
BRYAN In LONDON
POINTS OUT THE
DUTY OF NATIONS
HIS THEME IS"WHITEMAN'S BURDEN
SO-Called Inferior Races Should Be Led to a More
Elevated Plane of Thought and Activity by
Stimulating Self Development, Great
COmmoner Tells American Society
BY Associated Press.

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was the central figure at the annual In
dependence day dinner of the American
society at the Hotel Cecil tonight.
Nearly five hundred members and
guests surrounded the societys board
and cheered the patriotic sentiments
with the peculiar zest born of exile.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and Mr..
Bryan engaged in some sharp but good
natured rallery and banter over politi-
cal differences, the crowd evincing it's
enjoyment of the sport with cheers and
shouts of laughter.
Mr.. Reid in responding to Sir w. b.
Richmond's proposal of his health, said
with reference to Mr.. Bryan:
"At home, as citizen, I have openly
and squarely opposed him at every
stage of his conspicuous career. 1 am
reasonably sure that when l return
1 shall continue to do the same.
"I believe he tonight is as well salts
fed as 1 am, though by different reason
ing, that the country we both love and
try to serve has not been ruined by its
gold abroad.
"A Typical American"
Gas the official representative of the
American people without distinction as
to party, l am glad to welcome him as
a typical American, whose whole life
has been lived in the daylight and
whom the great host of my countrymen
have long trusted and honored."
riei n laughter
cheers, said:
1.-THE temptation to make a political
speech is strong within me. l have not
had a chance to do so for ten months.
However, will restrain myself.
with reference to the ambassadors
remarks on gold 1 wish to say that
when I see the progress my country has
made walking on one leg wonder what
it would have done walking on two
legs.
'It is pleasing to testify that the am
bassador not only has fought me but
that he has done it WELL No American
rejoces more than / that he is three
thousand miles from his base. While
abroad | have met many good Republf-
cans-holding office-and ] only wish
there were enough Offices abroad to take
all the Republicans out of the country"
Toast the Rulers
Chairman 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 her health.
Following the passage between Amer
lean Ambassador Reid and Mr.. Bryan
the latter read his formal speech.
Why seIf-coneratuIatory
The subject of Mr.. Bryans address
was "The White Mans Burden" He
said:
"The memory of the evening spent
with the American society Thanksglv-
ing day two and a half years ago is
such a pleasant one that | esteem my
self fortunate to be able to accept the
invitation extended by our distinguished
ambassador, Hon. Whitelaw 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 nations birth,
would doubtless pardon us if our re-
ioicing contained something 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 l hope L shall not be thought
lacking in patriotic spirit if, instead of
drawing a picture of the past, bright
with heroic deeds and unparalleled in
progress, | summon you rather to a
serious consideration of the RESPONSE
bility resting upon those nations which
aspire to premiership.
interests Britons, Too
"This line of thought is suggested by
a sense of propriety as well as by re-
cent experiences-by a sense of pro-
priety because such a subject will in
terest the Briton as well as the Ameri-
can, and by recent experiences because
they have impressed me not less with
our national duty than with the supe-
riorty of western over eastern civiliza-
tion.
asking your attention to such a
theme it is not uniting to adopt a
phrase coined by a poet to whom
America as we'll as England can lay
some claim, and take for my text 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 eX-
ception of the third line (of the meaning
of which | am not sure) the stanza en-
bodies the thought which is uppermost
in my mind tonight
A Favored Position
mo one can travel among the dark
skinned races of the orient without
feeling that the white man occupies an
especially favored position among the
children OF men, and the recognition Of
this fact is accompanied by the con-
viction that there is a duty inseparably
connected with the advantages en-
joyed.
"There is a white mans burden-a
burden which the white man should not
shiIk even If he would.
THAT no one liVeth unto himself or
dieth unto himself has a national as
we'll as AN individual application. Our