Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-01-19
Addresses Dignitaries Of
The Methodist Church
At the African Jubilee Now
Being Celebrated.
Cordial Greeting andl Address As
Equally Cordially Received.

Bishop Cranston as the apostle of the
square deal" President Roosevelt in an
address at the African Diamond Jubilee
mass meeting held in the Memorial Meth
odist church. which the late President
Mckinley attended. declared that he
would not come before Il METH list :;ath
erin2 if he had not attempted To s;,e The
square deal.
In addition to the square deaf in our
own country he continued, II want the
Methodists and others to help me give a
square deal to Japan. | will see to it
that in doing tins our citizens are pro-
tected.
You know | am not a mere sen,l-
mentanst. / am no: in the least afraid
of invoking the big stick if it is nece s.
sary but | should be ashamed to invoke
it unless it was necessary. And I wan;
to see us. While insisting upon justice
being done us, equally careful to do jus
tice to others. The national government
by agreement with the Japanese govern
ment and through the hearty and spon-
taneous initiative of the japanese govern
men. has been able to achieve Il com
pletely satisfactory solution of all posi-
bic difficulties of all possible questions
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and the Japanese people 1t is only the
federal government that can with Wis.,
dom and propriety deal with these lucs
| tons.a and ask all good Americans I"
see to it that unwse men, foolish men.
do not jeopardiZe to their own harm and
| the harm of their own locality the piai'
| that is now working ont so satisfactorily
| to the governments of the United States
| and Japan
Before delivering his prepared address
| the President declared that after having
heard the address given by Bishop Hart
| Zell yesterday he would have thought
| that he was plagializing if he had not
prepared his address a week or more ago.
After concluding, the President shook
hands with Bishop Cranston, who ex-
claimed: This is the true union of
church and state, not organ relationship,
but to stand hand in hand, heart TO
heart, eye to eye for the uplift of hualan-
ity."
The President declared that the Meth
| odists of the country had been an In
spiration to him during the seven AMI q
| half years of his Presidency.
| In the crisis through which I haze
passed." he asserted, land during TIE
time between crises ] have found myself
| touching elbows almost constantly With
members of the Methodist church,
| He referred to the fact that this was
the last public speech which he would
make in this city President of the
United States.
| The large congregation was singing
when the President entered the .churc,n.
AS he mounted the platform the audience
arose and gave the "Chautaugua saluta,'
| Preceding the Presidents address Bisn-
op Hartzel of Africa spoke of the mis-
sionary worn being done by the church
| in Africa.
| The President spoke 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 expansion took place
OF course any such general statement
as this must be understood with the
necessary reservations. Human ma =
| ture being what it is, no movement
| lasting for four centuries and extend
ing in one shape or another over the
| major part Of the world could go on
| without cruel iniustices being done at
| certain places and in certain times
Occasionally, although not very fire.
quently, a mild and kindly race has
| been treated with wanton, brutal, and
ruthless inhumanity by the white in
| truderS. Moreover, mere SavagcS
| whose type of life was so primitive as
to be absolutely incompatible with the
Persistence Of civilization, inevitably
died out from the regions across
which their sparse bands occasionally
fitted WHEN these regions became
filled with dense populations; they
died out when they We're kindly treated
as quickly as when they We're badly
treated. for the simple reason that they
| were 50 little advanced that the cOndi
tons of life' necessary to their exist
ence We're Incompatible with any form
of higher and better existence. 1t il
|also true that, even where great goo
has been done to the already existing
inhabitants, where they have thriver
under the new rule, it has sometimes
| brought WIFI IL from IN,
very fact that it has brought with il &
certain amount Of Wel,-being and !
certain amount of knowledge. so thai
people have learned enough to feel dis
contented and have prospered enough
to be able to show their discomfort
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 atti.
tude on our part.
On the whole, and speaking gener-
ally, one extraordinary fact OF this ex-
pansion of the European races is tina
with it has gone an increase in popula
ton and well-being among the native.
of the countries where the expansion
has taken place. AS result of this
expansion there now live outside .
Europe over hundred million o
people wholly of European blood ant
many millions more partly of European
blood and as another result there ar,
now on the whole more people OF Ma
tive blood in the regions where theS'
hundred million intruders dwell thai
there were when the intruders Wen
thither In America the Indians of tn
West Indies were well-nigh eXtermi
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