The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1908-11-06
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No person who passed frequently
between our respective nations can fail
to see the remarkable influence that
each is having upon the other, and
! gathering such as ours tonight serves
! to emphasize the Importance to the
| worlds peace and mutual advancement
! that the Pilgrims desire of this I'M
written friendship.
1T has been pointed out to you by
Colonel Harvey that / am enga ged in
profession which is supposed to have
a great deal to do with making war or
peace. l have no doubt IT is true that
newspapers can do more than merely
voice the thoughts and passions of the
peoples and now that newspaper work
is beginning to rank with the older
professions, with arms, the law, com
merce, the arts and sciences. there Is
a growing restraint on the part of the
writer's and editors that must make
for the worlds peace.
yet the world, as seen through the
newspapers is a rather strange place.
When l come here 1 read pages of ca
| Diagrams, and especially Sunday cable
grams, from London, and | see that
England is chiefly peopled by suf-
| fagettes impecunious aristocrats and
four or five amazing society ladies'
| fashionable beauties whose names and
antecedents are recorded, and whose
| photographs taken often 20 years ago.
| do steady service very regularly.
! gentlemen who send these Sunday ca
gentleman who send these Sunday ca
bles that there must be some other
people over there to conduct the gigan-
| tic export trade of Great Britain to
manage her cotton mills, to maintain
| her mercantile fleet, carrying seven
| tenths of the worlds goods, her ship
| ping yards and a navy that has been
heard of at times. On the other hand
when l am at home / see what an
amazing fellow Uncle Sam is Appar-
entity nature here is engaged in nothing
but tornadoes. Financiers are always
in panics; the politicians are all en-
gagged in grating each other; there is
| only one law, and that the unwritten
| one. But when I come here all the
Americans l meet are of an extremely
normal type and l find steady growth
! and, prosperity uneXampled in my per-
sonal observation. The cable, unfor-
| tuna tely, tells too little of the superb
public spirit of the United States or of
| its straining after such ideals as are
expressed by the metropolitan museum
of arts, the new library, the museum of
natural history, Mr.. Mills hotels the
Bronx Geological Gardens-the finest,
l believe, in the world. and your splen-
didly equipped hospitals.
IF there be one element that must
| strike the least obseryant stranger visit
ing any of the great cities it is the evil
dence of a public spirit of unexampled
| strength, which returns to the people
! in these forms the wealth that has been
wrung from the soil and the mines or
won by commerce and industry.
4 ssIn Mr. MORGAN whose contributions IN
| this city excel those of the princely pa
/ irons of medieval times, you have pub
| lie spirit personified.
Rush Of Modernity,
I'm the rush of modern journalism
| there is often not sufficient time to give
pause for the consideration of anything
excepting immediate and urgent news
| But there are on both sides of the At
lantic newspapers of less speed and great
! er spacousness which acquaint the peo-
pie with other things than politics, stock
| markets, and what the French call fats
! diNors. And since your chairman has re-
| ferred to my association with the London
| Times | may mention that it is my high
est ambition to maintain the traditions
/ that newspaper has held for 120 years
traditions of great aim and breadth of
view with regard to literary, scientific and
artistic matters and the higher progress
of nations outside of England.
mo foreign newspaper maintains such
a staff in this country as the Times does,
and that staff will be increased rather
than decreased. In my humble judgment
the more the newspapers tell the better
side of the people the better becomes the
international understanding.
beyond question therefore, the news
paper can serve an immense purpose, and
especially in times OF crisis, by remem-
being that a drop of inE makes mil