The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-01-19
PRESIDENT ADDRESSES AFRICAN
DIAMOND JUBILEE MASS MEETING
introduced by Bishop Apostle Of M Square De Wants hehods to Help
in Japan Speaks Great Good Accomplished by all Christian Mission
aries throughout the World Attributes Advance Made Early
and Continuous Effort Of the White Race

washington, JAM 1S-Introduced
by Bishop Cranston as the Apostle
of the Square Deal" President Roose-
volt. In nm address tonight at the
African Diamond Jubilee mnss meeting
held In the Metropolitan Memorial IL.
E. church, which the late President
Mckinley attended. declared that he
would not come before Methodist
gathering II he had not attempted to
Eive them a square deal.
I'm addition to the square deal In
our own country" he continued, Il
want tho Methodists and others TO
help me givo the square deal to ia
pan. I Will gee to 1T that In doing
This our own citizenship is protected.
~You know / am not mere senti-
ucntalist. / am not In the least
afraid of invoking the Big Stick II IL
is necessary, but should be ashamed
To invoke 1t unless it was necessary.
And I want to see us, while insisting
on Justice being done us, equally care
full to do justice to others. The ma
tional government by agreement with
tho Japanese government and
lu0 ACally anu
initiative of the Japanese government
has been able to achieve completely
satisfactory solution Of all possible
difficulties Of all possible questions
that could be at Issue between our
people and the Japanese people. II
Is only the federal government that
can with wisdom and propriety deal
with those questions; and l ask all
good Americans to see to 1t that I'M
wise men, foolish men do not jeopar-
die to their own harm and to the
harm of the locality the arrangement
that is now working out so satisfac-
States and Japan
Preceding the Presidents address,
Bishop Hartzell spoke of the mission
ary work being done by the church IN
Africa.
The President spoke as follows:
There is one feature in the cxpan-
sion OF the peoples of white, or Euro
pean, blood during the past four cen
turtles which should never be lost
sight of, especially by those VINO de-
nounce such expansion on moral
grounds. On the whole, the move
ment has been fraught with lasting
benefit to most of the peoples already
dwelling In the lands over which the
expansion took place or course, any
such general statement as this must
be understood with the necessary res
ervations. Human nature being what
1t Is, no movement lasting for four
centuries and extending in one shape
or another over the major part of the
world could go on without cruel In
Justices being done at certain places
and in certain times. Occasionally al
though not very frequently, mild
and kindly race has been treated with
wanton, brutal, and ruthless inhunlan-
ity by the white intruders. More
over, mere savages, whose type OF life
was so primitive as to be absolutely
Incompatible with the existence of
civilization, inevitably died out from
the regions across which their sparse
bands occasionally fitted, when these
regions became filled with dense pop
ulation; they died out when they were
kindly treated as quickly as when they
were badly treated. for the simple
reason that tney were so little ad-
yanceG that the conditions Of life nee
essary to their existence were incom-
patible with any form of higher and
better existence. 1t is also true that
even where great good has been done
to the already existing inhabitants.
where they nave thrlyen under the new
rule, 1t has sometimes brought with it
discomfort from the very fact that 1t
mas brought with it a certain amount
of well-being and certain amount of
knowledge, SO that people have
learned enough to feel discontented
and have prospered enough to be able
TO show their discomfort Such in
gratitude Is natural aud must be reck-
oned with as such, but it is also both
unwarranted and foolish, and the fact
OF It's existence in any given case does
lot justify any change of attitude on
our part.
On the whole. and speaking gener-
ally. one extraordinary fact OF this ex-
pansion on the European races Is that
with 1t has gone an increase In pop
ulation and wcllbeing among the ma
tives of tho countries where the ex-
pansion has takon place. AS result
OF this expansion there now live out
side Of Europe more than a hundred
million Of people wholly Of European
blood and many millions more partly
OF European blood and as another re-
suit there are now on the whole more
people of native blood Ia the regions
where these hundred million intrud-
crs dwell than there were when the
intruders went thither. In Amrica the