Arizona republican., 1906-07-05

ity of western over eastern eiviIiza- ton.
 THE SONG OF THE BURDEN. Asking your attention 10 such a theme it is not uniting Co adopt a phrase coined by poet 10 whom Am erica can lay some claim. and take for my text The White Mans Burden Take up the white mans burden In patience 10 abide.
 To vel 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 er- ception of the third line Cof the mean Ing Of which a m not quite sure) The staHza embOdies the thought which is uppermost in my mind tonight No one can travel among the dark-sLfnn@s races of the Orient without feeling thsf the white man occupies an especiaU,- favored position among the children os men and the recognition Of this fa-t is accompanied by the conviction, thsr there is a duty inseparabIy connected with the advantages enjoyed Ther- is white mans burden-a burden which the white man should not Shirk even 1 IT ne would That no one Ifveth uuto himself or dieth unto himself has "a national as we'll as an individual au- pilcatlon- Our dsstinies are so inter woven that each exerts an influence dlrectIy or indirectly upon all others BENEFIT WITHOUT INTENT. sometimes this influence fs uncon- sciously exerted as when. for instance. the good or bad precedent set by some one nation in dealing with it's ov-n affairs is followed by some other na- tion- Sometimes the influence is fn- cloentally exerted as when. for exaur- pie nation in the extension or Ira commerce introduces its IanguaEs and eniarges the horizon of the people vim whom 1t trades. This incidental h.-a- Tt conferred by the opening of rev- markets muct be apparent to any n-.. Who has watched the stimulating fu- Iiuence of the new ideas which have been introduced into Asia and Africa through the medium Of the Enrff-b language This is not the r,o.t~- sr-, gue of very many of the worlds lead CTS m religion. craftsmanship. scienr. ana literature, but it has received through translation the best thzr has been written and spsL.n Tn other countries. He who learns tf,i- language. therefore, is like one v-h.. lives upon great highway where h- Ooiiles lhto daily contact with The world Without disparaEinr other modern languag ges it trfav be sad ,-ifh truth that whether one travels ahroad or studies at home there is no ots@- language so useful at the preSenr tfr,a as that which We employ at this han quet board and the nation which fS instrumental spreading this Isn suaGe confers m inestimable boom even though the couferrinr of ft b. not included in it's general purposs England has rendered this service to me people of India and the I-nited states is rendering the same ser,-fe.. To the people of the Philippines. while both England and the United state nave been helpful to Japan and t,hln, in this way.
 But the advanced nations cannot content themselves with the cOnferrinr of incidental benefits. 1T they would Justify their claims to leadership they must put forth conscious and constant effort for the promotion Of the vel fare of the nations which lag behind Incidental benefits may follow even though the real purpose of a nation is a wholly selfish one for as the sale uf Joseph into Egypt resulted in blessings to his family and to the land of ths Pharaohs. so captives taken iu var have sometimes spread civilization. and blacks carried away into siayery have been improved by contact With the whites. But nations cannot af- ford to do evil in the hope that Prov idence will transmute the evil into
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