The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-21
AMERICA HAS GIVEN
EUROPE new LIFE
This Country Has Been Means Of Re.
generating Old Europe-America
Compared to Roman Empire.

MADISON, Wis, June IF I
were asked of what good America was
to Europe, | would say that Columbus
cut large doors and windows on the
west side of the old European manor,
which received it's ventilation only
from the east. America has regener-
ated the old world since the fourteenth
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 bacoalaureare
address 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 a unique type, the
only one approaching it being the Ra-
man empire when nearing it's disso-
luton. Every other nation he said,
lis, or was, composed of a race, or
of separate races, speaking each its
OVID language; you are nation formed
| by the fusion of races of different
languages brought by superior In
ducements to speak only the heridi-
| tary language of the country. In other
words, you are nation formed of ma
tons by their own will. Here Les all
the difference; you are formed by free
immigration, not by conquest" Amer
! lea was really the new Europe. Thanks
to the Monroe Doctrine, he said,
America was the continent Of peace,
"and this colossal peace unit, inter-
esting deeply the regions of the earth
the whole pacific, one could say
forms a neutral hemisphere and bal
ances the other hemisphere, which we
might call the belligerent hem1-
of the United States, he said, it's peace
sentiment would have to be tested
when its national aggrandizement
meets with it's first serious obstacle.
"The question is" he said, IF you
then would not proclaim the holy ma
tional war. AS yet no one could say
that peace is permanent article OF
faith with you, such as are democracy
and RELIGIOUS tOJaratiop fo,. ;pctapoa ;.
The great fortune of mankind Is that
the period Of your unopposed growtlS
permitting you to live in peace ana
to exercise your great moral and COM
mercial pressure for peace, coincues
with the time when the progress of
civilization and probably that of
science also, will succeed in substi-
i tuting international law for. war, or in
ldetaching war from international law,
of which it makes yet the principal
part" He believed that nothing would
do more to fix on the minds of the
people of the United States the pur-
pose Of peace than Pan-Americanism
He therefore drew the deductions that
as Wudi gives the greatest strength
to your power for peace is immigra-
ton, I would classify immigration as
the greatest of all contributions of
America to civilization" immigration,
not slavery, he declared, represented
the true American sap.
Next to immigration, the ambassa-
dor named democracy, which he char
Iacterized as distinctly American. One
could not break the chain that bound
through history the evolution or an
idea or of a sentiment, he said. ''but
: the American democracy is genuinely
. new, new design; the ancients dio
not practice it, nor would Europe have
produced it,"
Another great contribution, he said
, was the equality of social conditions
among all classes Of the nation
This" he said, sis the explanation
why 1t has become the adaptive coun-
try, the elected home OF men of all
races, born and reared under the con-
trary principles of inequality
{ Ambassador Nabuco did not believe
that America was yet leading In the