The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-05


 may be said with truth that whether one travels abroad or studies at home there Is no other language so useful at the present time as that which we employ at this banquet board and the nation which is instrumental In spread ing thfs language confers an inestima- ble boon even though the comforting of 1t be not included In its general pur- pose. England has rendered this ser vice to the people Of India and the United States is rendering the same service to the people of the Philippines, while both England and the United States have been helpful to Japan and China in this way
 But the advanced nations can not content themselves with the confer ring of incidental benefits. If they would justify their leadership they must put forth conscious and constant a,fs. enort m TOT tSe nations which lag behind. Incidental benefits may follow even though the real purpose of nation Is a wholly selfish one, for as the sale of Joseph into Egypt resulted in blessings to his family and to the land of the Pfa- roahs, so captives taken in war have bIse blacks carried away into slavery have been improved by contact with the whites. But nations afford to do eVil in the hope that Providence will trans ings out of sin. Nations. if they would be great in the better sense of the term. must Intend benefit as well as confer IL, they HtuSI pldH duNdhNhSc, anu hOe leave the results to chance.
 Duty to Inferior Races.
 I take it for granted that our duty to tte so-callsd inferior races is not times of famine or by contributing to their temporary support when some much greater assistance is rendered them when they are led to more ele- vated plane of thought and activity by ideals which stimulate them to self development The improvement of the people themselves should be the rar- amount object in all intercourse with
 Among the blessings which the Chrls-- tiap nations are at this time able-and in duty bound-to carry to the rest of the world, I may mention five; efu- cation. knowledge of the science Of government. arbitration as a subst- tute for war, appreciation of the dig nity of labor and a high conception of life.
 Education comes first. and in nothing have the United States and England been more clearly helpful than in. the advocacy of universal education. If the designs of God are disclosed by His handiwork, then the creation of the human mind is indubitable proof that the Almighty never intended that learning should be monopolized by few. and he arrays himself against the plans of Jehovah, who would deny intellectual training to any part of the nufHdH. 1t lA d ldtS6 ClNitAEdtlOiy hOt a true one. that countenances the per manent separation of society into two distinct classes, the one encouraged to improve the mind and the other con- demned to hopeless ignorance.
 The Interdependency of PrOfit.
 Equally false is that conception of international politics which would make the prosperity of one nation de- pend upon the exploitation of another. giOhfad RnnnQh to estimate with accuracy the remote. or even the immediate, consequences of human action. yet as we can rely upon the principle that each individual profits rather than loses by the pro- gress and prosperity of his neighbors. so we cannot doubt that 1t is to the advantage of each nation that every other nation shall make the largest use of its own resources and the capabili- ties of its people.
 No one questions that Japan's influ- ence has been a beheficient enc 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 obscurity into world power was scarcely more rapid than her transition from a men, ace into an ally. China is entering upon similar experience and I am confident that her area of reform will make her, not a yellow peril, but a powerful co-laborer In the information dl NlneydTu.. lnQla, III the pines, in Egypt and even in Turkey sta tistics show a gradual extension of education and l trust I will be par doned if I say that neither the ar mics. nor the nayies, nor yet the com nerce 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 pri- vate rather than by public funds.
 Vehicle For Truths Conveyance.
 The English language has become the vehicle for the conveyance of govern mental truth even more than for the spread of general information, for be- ginning with Magma Charter and con- tfnutng through the era of the Amer Independence down to the present no language has been so much employed for the propagation of that theory of government which traces governmental erned. Our own nation presents the most illustrious example known to history of great population working out It's destiny through laws of It's own making and under officials of it's own choosing, although, may add. we scarcely go beyond England In re- cognizing the omnipotence of a parlia- ment fresh from the people. It Is difflcult to overestimate the potency of this conception of governmen upon the progress of a nation and. in turn ing the thought of the world away from despotism to the possibilities of self government, the pioneers of free dom made Western civilization possi- ble An idea will sometimes revolu- tionize an individual, a community, a State. a nation or even world, and the idea that man possesses inalien- able rights which the state did not give 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 liberty is ever widening, while the tyranny and insolence of arbitrary power are every year decreasing, the leaders of the worlds thought. not only the Eng fish speaking nations but the other Christian nations 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
 ChristIRn Nations Must Lend, The Christian nations must lead the movement for the promotion of peace. not only because they are enlisted un- der the banner of the Prince of Peace, but also because they have attained such a 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 she'd ding of human blood is q relic of bar barism; to doubt the dynamic power of righteousness is inndellty to truth it. self. That nation which is unwilling to trust its cause to the universal con science or which shrlnks from the pre- sentation of it's claims before tri- bunal where reason holds sway betrays q lack of faith in the SoundneSs of it's position. I venture to suggest that the worlds peace would be greatly pro- noted by an agreement among the lead ing nations that no declaration of war should be made until the submission of the question in controversy to an i'm partial court for investigation, each nation reserVing the right to accent or