The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-06-21
IAGUS, A GEM in FERTILE, NORTH DAKOTA a4RAc

sA0S
THE Share Of America in .civiliza-
tton," and gave prominence to cer-
tain Of his Impressions regarding tho
contributions of ths United States to
civilization. ~
To his mind, said the ambassador,
the United State4t was nation In
some respects Of. 4 unique typo, the
only one approaching It being the
Roman empire whom nearing dissoau-
tion. Every other nation" he said.
is. or was, composed fof,a race, or
OF separate races, speaking each its
own language; YOU are nation
formed by the fusiop of races of dif-
ferent languages. Thought, by super
Tor inducements, to speak only tho
hereditary language OF the country.
IN other words. you are q nation
formed Of nations .by their own will.
Here lies all the difference; you arc
formed by free immigration. not by
conquest" America was really tho
new Europe. Thanks to the Monroe
doctrine, he said, America was tho
continent of peace, :'and this colossal
peace unit, interesting deeply tho re-
gions of the earth--the whole Pacific,
ono could say-forms e neutral hem
isphere and balances tho cthes hem-
isphere, which we might call the bel
ligerent hemisphere" With the pro-
digious growth Of the United States,
he said, its peacs sentiment would
have to be tested .Ihen its national
aggrandizement meets with the first
serious obstacle. "The question is,'
he said, If you then would not pro.
claim the holy national war. AS We,
no one could say that peace is a per-
manent article of faith with you,
such as are democracy and religious
federation. for instance, Tho great
fortune of mankindgis that the period
of your unopposed growth, permitting
you to live in peaee and to exercise
your great moral: <and commercial
pressure for peace. comedies with
the time when the progress of civil
ization and probably that Of science
also will succeed IN substituting in.
ternational law fost war, or in de-
taching war from international law,
of which It makes yet the principal
part" He beAeted that nothing
would do more to FIX on the mind ol
the people OF the United States the
purpose Of peace th4n Pan-Anler1can
ism. He therefore drew the deduc-
ton that "as what Ewes the greatest
strength to. your power for peace
is immigration, I would classify I'M
migration as the greatest of all CON.
tributions Of America to civilizatinn.' ?
immigration. not slavery. he detlar'
cd, represented tho true American
sap. : t
Next to immigration, the ambassa.
dor named democracy. which hi
characterized as distinctly american
One could. not. .6fAk tho. chain thal
bound through histo@ the evolutioI
sqf an idea or Of sentiment, he said
"but the American democracy Il
genuinely new;s'a new design; thu
ancients did not produce 1t, mol
would Europe have produced IT,"
Another great contribution. HI
said, was the equality OF social con
ditions among all classes of the ma
ton. "This," he said, :" .is the ex
QA0AdLAOA Why IL ndo UcCOluu IA&
adaptive country, the elected home o
men OF all races. born and reared un
der the contrary principle of une
quality"
Social Improvement.
Ambassador Nabuco did not believ,
that America was yet leading in th'
increase of the intellectual power o
man, that is, science, but he die he
lieve that it was already leaiing II
the improvement of mans social con
dition, II do not say alone, but witt
few other nations, which look Chief
ly to you" For the moment, he de
clared, no one could say II the new
American political economy is or II
not one of the great contributions of thu
United States to civilization. "'rht
universities Of America" he main
tained "are watch-towers adulrabl.
prepared to follow the progress o
the economical evolution and to solve
in time the riddle Of the sphinx.
Ono thing was sure, he said, will
emphasis, the age OF Franklin woult
not end in history as the age OF Mi
dac.
Coming to the question Of American
education, Ambassador Na5uco de
clared that 1t seemed tc ne tho onl.
one that was not wholly convention
al. "Yoa alope." he said, give a.
tho greatest of all human teachings
self-reliance. And, new to man
kind, you teach self-reliance not onl,
to men but to women. There nevei
existed in the world such youth O
both sexes with the same trainin.
for life. You plunge them, since the
childhood, in a bath that gives tt
both tho strength and the elasticit,
of steel. You have changed the
rythm OF life; you write it in quicl
tempo. and the worlG is catching
from you the spirit OF rapid trans
formation, and is writing it also ir
the American prestissimo instead O.
tho old adagic."
Among the other contributions, the
ambassador mentioned American in:
ventions.
AS for Latin American, the ambas.
sador said it was rather early Il
speak of the part assigned it in mis-
tory. I'VE have not yet been ordered
to enter the stage: the plays OF G',e
are very long ones: his acts ac>
ages" he said. Up to now. however
he said. Latin America had done .