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obligations Dawson. Au Hgiiahuan.
puts n plainly i0 Emgland. lAat III sht
wants io compete with Germany SHE
must work like Germany. in later
book be- says that bureaucracy does
mes necessarily mean the sanie thing
in Two countries. and that the greatest
mistake England has made with re-.
speCt ID Germany Us 10 misundcrsland
her local system. the foundation OF.
her national strength. He says Eng
land has kept the form Of free govern
ment, but has dismissed the use Of cN-I
pcrts. Germany has retained the ex-
pert, and has evolved the most suc-
cessiul system Of liberal self-govern-
ment upon the old rules laid down BY
Stein, that Is known to the civilized
world Of the present day. The result
is that Germany has no paupers: She
has only poor; she has no feeling OF
contempt for poor people, but she has
solieitude; she has no beggars on the
streets, because there Is work or sup
port; she has no unprotected orphans,
because the government takes control
and sees to their bringing up. If per-
suasfve evidence were needed of the
perfection OF her system in the care
Of her destitute, it need only be said
in spite OF all the horrors and
cost Of her war, she has even now
made an appropriation Of $i00. 100000
for the reconstruction of East Prus-
STA, destroyed by Russian INVASION
the last few months. She has
not rested with the appropriation, but
she has appointed a commission Of
trained men to ascertain the best
method for the restoration of the de-
stroyed country, upon lines and in a
fashion that will constitute an inn
proyement owe. the conditions that
prevailed before the war. These are
evidences of her success in a field m
which, despite all our declarations
about liberty, most civilized countries
Of the present day have failed.
! need not say that it is not for us
to make comparisons in passion. For
one, | do not share the feeling that is
sometimes expressed with respect to
England. | think England has made
1 great political mistake. That is my
Judgment, and in that l am borne out
the statement made by Trevelyan
1t the time of his resignation. He
said among other things that war had
declared because they did not
to see France destroyed, but
hat he was just as much interested
n the name of civilization not to see
Germany destroyed. He asked whether
hey are to rejoice to see Russia
,ome out of this war successfully
With her wild and ever renewing
lordes Of endless peoples to pour
Town upon bowed western civiliza-
ionl He adds that they are really
lighting for Russia.
As many Of you no doubt know,
always been an admirer of Eng
and. The books of great Englishmen
ire on my shelves, and | cannot for
ret that such inspiration as has come
me | must attribute in large part
English influence. / can not ques-
ion that most of our citizenship,
whatever its origin, must be in some
indebted for the same expert
,nce. True, there are German books
ipon my shelves, and | may regret
hat they are not more widely UNDER
,tood in my country. ! cannot but
that our people would be benz
by a better appreciation of the
ublime idealism of Schiller, the pro-
ound philosophy Of Goethe, the in
ense patriotism Of Arndt and jain,
md the great craftsmanship Of Stein.
5ut with all that, no American a be
to forget that England always
lad her great men as she has now. |
must still turn to Burke, Pitt, Fox
nd others, who were friends to our
in the day Of her need, and
Who today provide inspiration for
Ugh patriotism. We cannot be
to forget that in the day Of our
Twill War INF for Rrioht the great