Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-02-25
A BIG WORLD POWER
THE UNITED STATES
Our Constitution Prophecy Our
History an InspiratiOn-Ihe
World Looks TO Our Leadership
ADDRESS BY MR. EDWIN D MEAD.
Two Kinds Of World Power Neral
and PHYSICAL Expoundsd ia
Lecture AZ St. Joha's College.

Lecture aE 81. Joh0' College.
Everybody whose privilege it was
tc hear that splendid lecture, the
third in the Department Of Univer-
| sity Extension, delivered last night at
! Mcdowell Hall, St. Johns College, by
Mr.. Edwin D. Meade feels that he
would like to have all Of bis friends
hear and enjoy the lecture, so enter
tanning. So iu<tructive, so interesting
| was its subject matter. as we'll as the
lecturer himself.
The subject was "Tht United
/ States as a World Power, and it was
/ presented in such q magnificent man
ner, so convincingly that we of the
! United States who heard Mr.. Meade
tell of US and our power" are 50
| pufed up with pardonable pride this
morning after hearing that lecture
/ that we think we are the whole world
and all the rest is but q protoplasm,
or the tiniest atom beneath our feet
Mr.. Meade began by saying there
are two kinds of power IN the world
moral power and physical power; the
| power of ideas and of materialism-
and il is according as nation or a
| man lays the emphasis upon one or the
other that the record is made up at
last. "The United States as a World
Power" is a phrase that we hear
rather often nowadays; it has be-
come common and rather fashionable /;
we read many articles in the news
papers and in the magazines about
| the United States as a world power.
4 AAnd il would sometimes seem as
| If upon the pens and lips of men who
talk and write about the United
States as a world power the popular
notion is that the United States sud-
denly began 10 be world power"
a dozen or fifteen years ago when,
with vastly superior forces, we sunk
half a dozen second-rate Spanish guh-
boats in Manila harbor and at Santi-
ago. Now that is a very cheap view
of world power--and a very cheap view
Of the United States. 1t is his opin-
| ion that the United States began TO
be a world power ss soon as it began
70 be at all ;and on the whole he con
ceives it has beeh the greatest of
world powers from that time to this
and on the whole, too, a power for
good and a power in behalf Of those
poIicies which we believe, and most
Of us are glad to believe, are destined
politically to control the future aud
shape rternationl policies and ,insri-
tutions.
In referring to our influence as 8
world power upon the colonies OF
Great Britain, the speaker said;
"And how about Great Britair
herself what was our influence there
Many of you remember that in his
later life the great English histor
ian, Freeman, came over to this coun
try and gave lectures. he gave q
course of Lowell lectures IN Boston
He spoke in New York and he spok,
in Chicago, and / think the most in
teresting address he gave in tina
American visit was an address in Chi
cago. He was there, if ! reemmbel
rightly. on Washington's birthday
and he was invited to give au addrt s.
on Washington.
THAT address is included in on,
of the later volumes of Freeman col
lected essays and addresses. II bear
the title, George Washington, thr
Expander OF England don't know
how you felt when you read that ad
: dress read it with surprise; reat
, the titls with surprise We Ameri
cans are not in the habit of thinkin]
: Of George Washington as the expand
er Of England. Rather the contractor
we say, for we thinR that by Wash
ington and his associates in the Revo
luton, England was shorn of be
proudest possessions. But the Englis
historian was right, and the title wa
I correct.
/ George Washington was the gres
! expander Of Englar d, because he al
/ bis associates first taught Englan
I With drastic power what the pfiuc
/ Piles and policies were which she mus
I observe in dealing with her colonie:
/ if she expected to retain them, if sh
: expected to hold her empire togethe
/ and t. expand il. They taught Ems
/ land that she must treat her colonie
with Justice; that there must be 8
/ end Of oppression; that there must h
+ no taxation without representation
that local rights must De assured
! that Englishmen on this side Of II
water must have every right whie
Englishmen bad at home.
/ England learned that lesson, az
Z because she learned it, and has o
/ served il, the British Empire today
strong. Its strength comes throug
+ the fact that every member--Canad
( Australia, and all the rest-knov
that they have simply to request i
/ dependence to get IL. Now that vi
a great lesson to teach and to lear
and upon that lesson are based the
tegrity and expansion Of the Britt
1 empire, which is strong because
its parts are held to the mother cou
try simply by the bonds Of loyalty a
love.
What was cur influence upon Gre
Britain itself, the mother country?
think most OF Us misconceive the va
character of thu American Revol
tion. We are altogether too mu
;,rlfned. and we teach the bows 4