The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-19
Bishop CranstOn Applies Phrase
 to Roosevelt
ADDRESS TO METHODISTS
Roosevelt Speaks To Jubilee Meeting Of Methodists and Discusses In- fIuence of White Races Over
 the Black Ones.

l Washington, January 1S.-Introduced by Bishop Cranston as the Apostle of the | square deal" President Roosevelt, in his address tonight at the Africa Diamond Jubilee mass meeting, held in the Metro poitan Memorial Methodist Episcopal church of this city, the church of which the late President Mckinley was an at tendant, declared that he would not come before a Methodist gathering if he had not attempted to give the square deal.
 "In addition to the square deal in our own country" continued the President, 'I want the Methodists and others to help me give the square deal to Japan. will see to 1t that, in doing this our own citizens are protected.
 T am not a sentlmentalist 1 am not afraid of invoking the big stick when ever it may be necessary. Our national government has reached an agreement with Japan by which there can be a satisfactory solution to every question which may be at issue between the United States and Japan
 Before starting to deliver the address which he had prepared the President de- clared that after having heard the ad- dress given by Bishop Hartsell yesterday i he would have thought that he were l plagiarizing if he had not prepared his address a week or so ago.
 The president referred to the fact that this was the last public speech which he 11a1ro if, f.fft ID,~.- the United States.
 Roosevelt's Address.
 President Roosevelt spoke in part as
 follows:
 There is one feature in the expansion Of the peoples of white, or European, blood during the past four centuries which should never be lost sight of, especially by those who denounce such expansion on moral grounds. On the whole. the movement has been fraught with lasting benefit to most of the peoples already dwelling in the lands over which the ex- panson took place. Of course any such general statement as this must be un- derstood with the necessary reservations. Human nature being what 1t is, no move ment lasting for four centuries and ex- tending in one shape or another over 1 the major part of the world could go on ! without cruel injustices being done at 1 certain places and in certain times. De- ! casionally, although not very frequently, 1 mild and kindly race has been treated | with wanton, brutal and ruthless in- ] humanity by the white intruders More | over, mere savages, whose type of life ' was so primitive to be absolutely in- compatible with the existence of civilza- tion, inevitably died out from the regions across which their sparse bands occasion ly fitted, when these regions became filled with dense population; they died 1 out when they were kindly treated as ! quickly as when they were badly treated, for the simple reason that they were so { little advanced that the conditions of life necessary to their existence were incom- patible with any form of higher and bet ter existence. It is also true that even where great good has been done to the | already existing inhabitants, where they have thriven under the new rule, 1t has sometimes brought with it discontent from the very fact that 1t has brought with 1t certain amount of well-belng and a cer- tain amount of knowledge, that people have learned enough to feel discontented and have prospered enough to be able to show their discontent. Such ingratitude is natural, and must be reckoned with as such; but it is also both unwarranted and foolish, and the fact of it's existence in any given case does not justify any change of attitude on our part.
 Expansion of Races.
 On the whole, and speaking gener- ally, one extraordinary fact of this ex- pansion of the European races Is that with it has gone an increase in population and well-being among the natives of the coun- tries where the expansion has taken place. As result of this expansion there now live outside of Europe over a hundred million of people wholly of European blood and many millions more partly Of European blood; and as another result there are now on the whole more people of native blood in the regions where these hundred million intruders dwell than there were when the intruders went thither in America the Indians of the West Indies were well-nigh exterminated wantonly and cruelty. The merely savage tribes both in North and South America, who were very few in number, have much decreased or have vanished, and grave wrongs have often been committed against them as well as by them But all of the Indians who had attained to an even low grade of industrial and social efficiency have remained in the land and have for the most part simply been assimiated with the intruders, the assimilation marking on the whole very considerable rise in their conditions. Talk ing into account the Indians of pure blood, and the mixed bloods in which tho h. dian element Is large, it Is undoubtedly true that the Indian population of Amer lea Is larger today than it was when Columbus discovered the continent, and stands on a far higher plane of happi- ness and efficiency In Australia the few savages tend to die out simply because their grade of culture Is so low that noth- ing can be done with them: doubtless oc- casional brutalities have been committed by white settlers, but these brutalities were not an appreciable factor in the dying out of the natives. In India and Java there has been great increase in well-beng and population under the Eng fish and the Dutch, and the advance made has been in striking contrast to what has occurred during the same period