Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-25

girls In the schools erroneously--I am
glad 20 say not SO much as twenty
years ago--to conceive the Am ricsn
Revolution altogether as a struggle
between a united country Of Ameri-
can patriots and q great united coun-
try on the other side of despotic and
tylannical Englishmen. Nothing Of
the kind was true, either on the other
side or on this side.
Mr. Meade said our very map is
a record Of gratitude to the meu in
England who were on our side.
say our map IL dott I'd all over
with towns called Chatham, and Pitts
burgh. and Grafton, and Foxboro, sad
Conway, and Barre and Wilkes. In
Massachusetts there was town
which was named Hutchinson, ii re-
member, after tn royal governor, and
tn " turned il into Barre They had
q struggle whether 20 call it Barre or
Wilkes. Finally they called it Barre,
after Colonel isaac Barre, our fer
vent friend in Parliament A lot Of
the people wanted to call il Wilkes,
for John Wilkes, the brilliant English
journalist, who fought on our side
with his pen st the time. In Penn
sylvania they had the same kind of a
struggle and they ended their strug-
gle by putting both names together
and calling the town Wilkes Barre.
We affected the course and character
of English history"
He spoke Of American influence in
the Balkans of American ideas in
Japan.
During the last two generations
there has been born into the world a
new and mighty fact The name Of
that iact il Japan Two generations
ago, in 1853. your fathers read very
little about Japan in their newspa-
pers. There is not one of us who
does not in every newspaper today
read very much about Japan. No
man would venture to leave Japan
out Of any list of the eight great
world powers today"
Mr. Meade spoke Of the awake n
ing of China; of the international
scope .oi Cosmopolitan Clubs. and
said:
But the greatest Cosmopolitan
Club in the world is the United States
Of America itself Never since time
began was there such a population as
this of ours, made up Of all races, yet
al pulling together, working together
in harmony in the main. for common
ends. "
He spoke of the peace Move
meat." he does not believe in big
navy. In closing he said.
Let us put a stop TO the big navy
craze here in the United States.
There is no proper place for it in this
republic. Let us raise public opinion
against ibis attempt on the part Of
certain men in Congress to pass the
militia pay bill--an attempt to bring
the whole militia Of the country un-
der payment from the national treas
ury, making our militia part of a
national army. This country has ~
excuse for things Of this kind; they
are un- American, un-Democratic, false
to the true principles of progress,
false to cur struggling sister nation.
We have a great record in construc-
tive things, and we ought to lead the
nations Of the world in the reduction
Of the tremendous armaments which
are exhausting the world.
''We are the strongest and safest
of nations; never so safe as today.
We can afford great experiments and
bold policies The principles Of ouI
federal republic are the principles
which need to be expanded into appli-
cation to international affairs to
give US the kind of organized world
which we want. Our very coustitu
tiou is a prophecy; our history an in
| spiration The whcle world looks tC
US for leadership, and it is for US tC
work ever more and more to make
/ the United States 8 true prophecy
and preparation for the united
world.