The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1907-01-03
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1.-The Land Of the Future. y

HASlduu anu elsewhere along the AT
lantic rim who still believe that the
people of the Pacific coast states are
yapping Yahoos, but Mr.. Bryce learn
ed better long time ago. He found
other points in which the American
| people in his view were superior to
Europeans. His whole study and in
vestigation Of the subject led him to
firm belief in the greatness and the
worldwide Importance of the Ameri-
can experiment in popular government.
He called America ''the land Of the fu-
ture"
| Nobody in Europe knew very much
| about the United States until Bryce
| published his book Even over here
we knew great deal more about our
own country after that work came out.
The work has been translated into sew
eral European languages and unques-
tionably has done the United States a
world of good. Mr.. bryce is our friend
to start with, and as ambassador he
may be expected to maintain an atti-
tude Of friendliness rather than one of
frigidity. ..,..:
Mr.. Bryce is an interesting person.
atty, quite aside from his American
predictions. He has been all his life
an unusually busy man, as professor
Of civil law at Oxford university, as
a practicing barrister for fifteen years.
as member of parliament and of the
British cabinet, yet he has found time
to see great deal of the world out
side. His recreation is mountain
climbing. When Mr.. Bryce wants to
take rest he goes off to some alti-
tudinous territory and climbs a 10000
foot mountain peak. Some years ago
he climbed to the summit of Mount
Ararat, on which Noah's ark is sup
posed to have landed. Two-thirds up
the mountain Mr.. Bryce's party of
kurds and Cossacks deserted him, the
Persian belief being strong that no
man could reach the summit. The pro-
lessor went on alone, gained the sum-
NIT and looked out upon a magnificent
panorama which he described most
beautifully in one Of his books. For
some time he was president Of the ia
nous Alpine club. What he does not
know about mountain climbing is not
important
Mr.. Bryce once had occasion to quote
an article from a newspaper at Taco
ma, Wash, telling the world what Ia
coma had to be thankful for. In foot
note Mr.. Bryce remarked: '"Tacoma
has one glory which the inhabitants, it
is to be feared, value less than those
dWelt on in the article. 1t commands
the finest view of a mountain on the
Pacific coast, perhaps in all North
America, looking across it's calm inlet
to the magnificent snowy mass of
Mount Tacoma (14,7OO feet, rising out
of deep, dark forests thirty miles
away" 1855 fs#t .E-9t ",%
MI. Bryce's first book was '"The Holy
Roman Empire" elaborated from a
college prize essay. So thoroughly and
illuminatively was that task performed
that. the young historian became at
once a figure of interest in Europe
That figure has grown constantly to
the present day.
Democratic Like Her Husband.
Until he had completed his master
piece, the work on America, Mr. Bryce
remained a bachelor Then he was
married to Miss Elizabeth Marion Ash
ton Of Manchester, who was president
of the Woman's National Liberal asso-
citation and had lectured and written
on political topics with distinction.
Since the marriage it is understood
that Mrs. Bryce has confined her polit-
ical activities chiefly to assisting and
encouraging her husband She is said
to be democratic, like Mr. Bryce This
is another occasion for congratulation
upon Americas part in view of the
change in the Enthusiastically.
1t is matter of wide notoriety that
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the pres
ent ambassador. and his wife have be-
come decidedly unpopular in Washing
ton, owing largely to the point of view
from which Lady Durand looks upon
her social duties and privileges. In
the case of Mrs. Bryce there is not like.
~ to be any amusing episode such as
inevitably must grow out of the contact
| of a lord and lady family with the dem
| ocratic society of a countless capital
Why Canada Objects.
Thus far the only objection to Mr.
Bryce as ambassador has come from
Canada. The Dominion to the north of
us is highly apprehensive lest man of
Bryce's admitted liberal views-he has
been for years one of the leaders of the
advanced Liberal party in England
may not handle the perplexed problems
of the Alaskan boundary and the New
foundland fisheries with that imperial
istic aplomb which is characteristic of
an ambassador who wears his titles in
front of his name and who was bap-
tized to perpetual diplomacy in his
youth. The United States Americans
believe that Ambassador Bryce, thor
Dugh statesman, a ripe scholar, lover