The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-05
Bryan Speaks for Help
 full Spirit.
KILLINGS POEM THE TEXT
Quotes a Verse of the 4'White
 Mans Burden" j"
Famous Nebraskan candidiy Confesses He Cannot Decide What The English Poet Meant By One
 Line Of It.

London, July 4.-william J. Bryan was the central figure at the annual Independence Day dinner of the Ameri- can Society at the Hotel Cecil today. Nearly 800 members and guests sur round the society's board and cheer ed patriotic sentiments with the pecu- liar zest born of exile. Ambassador Whitelaw Reid and MT. Bryan engaged in some sharp but good hunlored rail- lery and banter, over political differ ences, the crowd evincing It's enjoy ment of the sport with cheers and sbots of laughter.
 MT, Reid, in responding to Sir w. B. Richmonds graceful proposal of his health, said with reference to Mir. Bry- an:
 At home as a citizen I have openly and squarely opposed him at every stage of his conspicuous career. am reasonably sure that when I return home I shall do the same. I believe he tonight Is as we'll satisfied as l am though by different reasoning, that the country we both love and try to serve has not been ruined by its gold abroad. As the official representative < of the American people without dis tinction as to party I am glad to well come here as a typical American whose whole life has been lived in the daylight and one whom such a great host of my countrymen have long trusted and honored."
 Bryan's Answer to Reid.
 MT. Bryan. rising amid laughter and cheers, said: The temptation to make 6 political speech is strong within me. l have not had chance to do so for ten months. However, l will restrain myself. With reference to the Ambas- sador's remarks on gold wish to say that when I see the progress of my country has made walking on one leg l wonder what 1t would have done walking on two legs. It is pleasing to testify that the Ambassador not only has fought me but that he has done 1t well. No American rejoices more than l that he Is three thousand miles from his base. While abroad I have met many good Republicans. holding office --and only wish there were enough offices abroad to take all the Republi- cans out of the country"
 Chairman F.. W. Joneg 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 drunk her health.
 Following the passage between Am bassador Reid and Mir. Bryan the lat ter read his formal speech.
 Speech of MT. Bryan.
 The subject of Mr. Bryan's address was The White Mans Burden." He said:
 The memory of the evening spent with the American Society, Thanksgiving Day, two and a half years ago, is such a pleasant one that I esteem myself fortunate to be able to accept the in- vltation so kindly extended by our dis tirguished Ambassador, Hon. Whitelaw Reid, to be your guest on this occa- sion. 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- joicing contained something of self congratuIation. for 1t Is at such times as this that we are wont to review those national achievements which have given to the United States It's proml- hence among the nations. But I hope l shall not be thought lacking in pa triotic spirit If, instead or drawing a picture of the past, bright with heroic deeds and unparalleled in progress, l summon you rather to a serious consid- eration of the responsibility resting upon those nations which aspire to premiership. This line of thought is suggested by a sense of propriety as well as by recent experlences-by a sense of propriety because such a sub feet will interest the Briton as well as the American, and by recent experi- enees because they have impressed me not less with our national duty than with the superiority of Western over Eastern civilization.
 Asking your attention to such a theme 1t is not uniting to adopt a phrase coined by poet to whom America as well as England can lay some claim, and take for my text "rhe 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"
 One Line in Doubt.
 Thus sings Kipling and, with the ex ception of the third line (of the mean ing of which l am not quite sure), the stanza embodies the thought which Is uppermost in my mind tonight. Nc one can travel among the dark-skinne ed 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 conviction that there Is a duty inseparably connected with the advantages enjoyed. There Is a white mans burden-a bruden which the white man should not shirk even If he could, a burden which he could not shlrk even if he would. That no one liveth unto himself or dieth unto himself has a national as well as an individual application. Our destinIes are 50 interwoven 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 It's own affairs is followed by some other nation Sometimes the influence Is incidental- . ly exerted as when, for example, a na- ton in the extension of It's comme rec introduces its language and enIarges the horizon of the people with whom 1t trades. This incidental benefit con ferred by the opening of new markets must be apparent to any one who has watched the stimulating influence of the new ideas which have been intro duced into Asia and Africa through the medium of the English language This Is not the mother tongue of very many of the worlds leaders in relf- Rion' statesmanship, science and liter Rture. but 1t has received through trans iation the beet that has been written and spoken in other countries.
 As Upon a Great Highway.
 He who learns this language, there fore, is like one who lives upon a great highway where he comes into daily contact with the world. Without dis