The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1909-06-20

MADISON, Wisconsin, June 90
off 1 were asked of what good Amer
lea was to Europe, would say that
Columbus cut large doors and windows
on the west side of the old European
manor, which received its ventilation
only from the East. America has regen-
Grated the old world since the sixteenth
century as effectually as the influx
from Central Europe regenerated it in
the Middle Ages"
This was the declaration of Senior
Nabuco, the Brazilian Ambassador, who
today delivered the baccalaureate ad-
dress to the graduating class at the
University of Wisconsin. The Ambas-
sador took for his subject "The Share
of America in Civilization, and gave
prominence to certain of his impress
sions regarding the contributions of the
United States to civilization.
To his mind, said the Ambassador,
the United States was a nation in some
respects of unique type, the only
one approaching it being the Roman
Empire when nearing dissolution. I" Ev-
cry other nation he said "is or was,
composed of race, or of separate
races, speaking each its own language;
you are a nation formed by the fusion
Of races of different languages, brought,
by superior inducements, to speak only
the hereditary language of the coun.
try. In other words, you are a nation
formed of nations by their own will.
Here lies all the difference; you are
formed by free immigration, not by
conquest America was really the
New Europe. Thanks to the Monroe
Doctrine, he said, America was the Con
tinent of peace, "and this colossal
peace unit, interesting deeply the
| regions of the earth-the whole Pa.
cific, one could say-forms neutral
Hemisphere and balances the other
Hemisphere, which we might call the
Belligerent Hemisphere. With the
prodigious growth of the United States
he said, its peace sentiment would have
to be tested when its national ag-
Gus obstacle. "The question is" he
said, elf you then would not proclaim
the holy national war. AS yet no one
could say that peace is d permanent
article of faith with you, such as are
democracy and religious liberation, for
instance. The great fortune of man
kind is that the period of your upop'
posed growth, permitting you to live
in peace and to exercise your great
moral and commercial pressure for
peace. comedies with the time when
the progress Of civilization and prob
ably that of science also will succeed in
substituting international Law for war
or in detaching war from international
Law, of which it makes yet the prin-
cipal part" He believed that nothing
would do more to fix on the mind OF
the people of the United States the
purpose of peace than Pan-American
ism. He therefore drew the deduction
that Gas what gives the greatest
strength to your power for peace il
immigration, wbuld classify immigra
tion as the greatest Of al contributions
of America to civilization. Immigra
ton, not slavery, he declared, repre-
scented the true American sap.
Next to immigration, the Ambassa
dor named democracy, which he char
acterized as distinctly American. One
could not break the chain that bounc
through history the evolution of al
idea or a sentiment, he said, "but tbs
American democracy is genuinely new
new design; the ancients did not pro
duce it, nor would Europe have pro
duced it,"
! Another great contribution, he said