The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-06-27
hME RICA'S SHARE IN
C|v|L|zING THE WORLD
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prodigious growth of the United States,
he said, its peace sentiment would have
to be tested when its national ag-
grandizement meets with the first seri-
Gus obstacle. 1.-THE question is he
said, eff you then would not proclaim
the holy national war. As yet no one
could say that peace is a 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-
cipai 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 IS
immigration, | would classify immigr
tion as the greatest of all 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 bound
through history the evolution of an
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American democracy is genuinely new;
a new design; the ancients did not pro-
duce it. nor would Europe have pro-
duced it. y
Another great contribution, he said,
was the equality of social conditions
among all classes of the nation.
"This,v he said, 'sis the explanation
why it has Become the adaptive coun-
try, the elected home of men of all
races. born and reared under the con-
trary principle of inequality
Ambassador Nabuco did not believe
that America was yet leading in the
increase of the intellectual power of
man, that is, science, but he did be-
lieve that it was already leading in
the Improvement of man S social con-
dition, 81 do not say alone, but with
few other nations, which look chief
ly to youD For the moment, he de-
clared, no one could say if the new
American political economy is or not
one of the great contributions of the
United States to civilization. THE
Universities of America, he maintain
ed, care watch-towers admirably pre-
pared to follow the progress of the
economical evolution and to solve in
time the riddle of the Sphinx One
thing was sure, he said, with emphasis,
the age of Franklin would not end
in history as the age of Midas.
Coming to the question of American
education, Ambassador Nabuco declared
that it seemed to be the only one that
was not wholly conventional. '.You
alone he said, ''give as the greatest
of all human teachings, self-reliance.
And. new to mankind, you teach self
men. There never existed in the world
such a youth of both sexes with the
| same training for life. You plunge
them, since the childhood. in bath
/ that gives to both the strength and
| the elasticity of steel. You have chang
ed the rhythm OF life; you write it in
quick tempo, and the world is catch
| ing from you the spirit of rapid trans
formation, and is writing it also in the
! American prestissimo instead OF the
old adagio. -
Among the other great contributions,
the Ambassador mentioned American
inventions.
| As for Latin America, the Ambassa-
/ dor said it was rather early to speak
of the part assigned it in history. "We
have not vet been ordered to enter
the stage; the plays of God are very
long ones; his acts are ages" he said.
Up to now. however, he said. Latin
| America had done a considerable work
of civilization against great difficulties
and he believed that nowhere could be
selected finer types of man and woman
| than among its different nations. 'fWe
hope, he said in conclusion, ''we do
honor to our native stocks and that
we show, compared to them, traits of
/ the same evolution as YOU present com
pared to the English race