Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-26
EUROPE LEARNS
FROM AMERICA
DIPLOMAT OF BRAZIL SPEAKS
TO COLLEGE MEN
UNITED STATES LIKE ROME IN
HER SUPREME HOUR
immigration Classified as the Greatest
Contribution of This Country to
Civilization of the
World

MADISON, Wis, June 25.-''If were
asked of what good America was to
Europe I would say that Columbus cut
large doors and windows on the west
side of the old European manor, which
received its ventilation only from the
east. America has regenerated the old
world since the sixteenth 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
delivered the baecalaureate address
to the graduating class at the
University of Wisconsin. The ambassa-
dor took for his subject 1.-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 is nation in some
respects of a unique type, the only one
approaching it being the Roman empire
when nearing dissolution.
Every other nation" he said, sis, or
was, composed of a race or of separate
races, speaking each it's own language.
You are a nation formed by the fusion
of races of different languages, brought
by superior inducements to speak only
the hereditary language of the coun-
try.
I'm other words, you are nation
formed of nations by their own will.
Here lies all the difference; you are
formed by free immigration, not by
conquest.
The New Europe
America is really the new Europe.
Thanks to the Monroe doctrine, Amer
ica is the continent of peace and this
colossal peace unit forms a neutral
h .4ervz1
which we might call the belligerent
h -tnisphere. With the prodigious growth
of the United States it's peace senti-
ment would have to be tested when its
national aggrandizement meets with
the first serious obstacle.
The question is If 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 mankind is
that the period of your unopposed
growth, permitting you to live In peace
and to exercise your great moral and
commercial pressure for peace, COIN
cides with the time when the progress
of civilization and probably that of
science also will succeed in substitute
ing international law for war, or in de-
tachtng war from international law, of
which it makes yet the principal part"
Draws Deduction
He believed nothing would do more
to fix on the mind of the people of the
United States the purpose of peace than
Pan n-Americanism. He therefore drew
the deduction that "as what gives the
greatest strength to your power for
peace is immigration 1 would classify
immigration as the greatest of all con-
tributions of America to civilization.
migration, not slavery, represents the
true American sap"
Next to immigration the ambassador
named democracy which he character
lied as distinctly American. One could
not break the chain that bound through
history the evolution Of an idea or of a
sentiment, he said, but the American
democracy is genuinely new; a new de-
sign; the ancients did not produce 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 declared, 'is the explana-
tion why it has become the adaptive
country, the elected home of men of all
races, born and reared under the con-
trary principle of inequality"