Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1906 — BRYAN FOR OPPRESSED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BRYAN FOR OPPRESSED.

Outline* Duty of Nation* ,tj* Loados ;. .j . WiTlTam Jennings Bryan, fresh his tour of the Orient, was the oratbr at tlie Independence, day dinner of the American society at the Hotel Cecil in London amt expressed his conviction that on the United States and England devolves the mission of diffusing education ami lolitieai freedom throughput the benighted lands. He took Kipling's poein',' "The White Man's Burden,” as his text ami dwlared that now, as never before, the Christian nations are working to spread civilization and uplift others, rather than to exploit their weaker bn-thfeu. " X'early 590 mi-mixers and guests snrrmnidmTTTiih Si iifiPlTts board and cheeredpatriotic sentiments vvith the peculiar zest Isirii of exile. Ambassador Whitelaw Rbid and Mr. Bryan engaged in

some sharp but good-humored banter over political differences, the crowd evincing its enjoyment of the sport with cheers and shouts of laughter. Mr. Reid, in responding to Sir W. B. Richmond's graceful proposal of his health, said with reference to Mr. Bryan : "As the official representative of the American people, without distinction as to party. I am glad to welcome him here as a typical American, whose whole- life has been lived in the daylight and one whom such a great host of my emmtrymen have long trusted andTroimred.” In discussing “the white man’s burden” Mr. Bryan declared the chief duty ■if the Christian states is fivefold—to carry-fe-tlie remainder of the world ed-

ucation, knowledge of the science of government, arbitration as a substitute for war, appreciation of tbe dignity of labor and a high conception of life. He styled as false that conception of international polities which made the prosperity of one nation depend upon the exploitation of another. President Roosevelt and King Edwgrd were praised by Mr. Bryan for their infinenee in behalf of peace and the caused of arbitration. Mr. Bryan declared the odium which rests upon the work of the hand has exerted a baneful influence on tbe world and this theory, he said, was largely responsible for the creation of an almost Impassable gulf between the leisure classes and those who support them. ■ a —-—'■

WILLIAM J. BRYAN.