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! PORTLATjlD,- OREGON, SUNDAY MOI&INCV JUNE. 21,; 1908 "
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His Public Career
of Big Tasks and
Successful Admin,
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T IStnr OlTEM thU oldlr becomes th .bl
. offrapber of atateaman. In thla lnstanoo, Bri
i&ie Oonaral Claranca IWJEdwaraa la unotuaJly
well qualified to tell ot tho work of Secretary
WlMInn K. Tift as a statesman and peacemaker.
v General Edwards has rendered distinguished -
and invaluable aid to
Secretary Tift In .
bringing order out ot
chaos In tbe Philippines-and
our other
Insular interests. He
has striven, both
with bis sword and
his brain, for tbe ,
welfare of tbe Fili
pinos. He was in all of
General L a w t o n'a
campaigns In the
Philippines, and was
recommended by him
for four brevets, up
to and including that,,
of brigadier general,
for "distinguished
gallantry 1 n t h
presenee of the
enemy." He- ws
with . Lawton when
be f ell. and -brought
his ? body r- home vfor
burials ,
It r was General
Edwards who organ-
Ised the Bureau of
Insular Affairs, and
he has been its head
front 1300 until the k
? resent. fl iiiy?'
lve of Cleveland, .
Ohio, and wasrad- i
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BRIGADIER GENERAL)
CXJLRENCE ; R. ED WARDS
importance as that or any otner- ouok vu -. , .
list.' He is still la the 40'a HUopularUyin the 4
army Is OniversaL - He twas wlth oreUry . Taft on , a a
MAT. ian s recent- tour 01 in 8wl
, master of ceremonies- at ell of the official function
that, took place en route.
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"E THERE IS one order of mind which the -
world needs, nd urgently needs, in the ra
that began with the beginning of this young ."
century, it is the mind of r the statesman;
and if there is one people 'among the 'nations
whose interests, sodiversely clash and hannon
ize that needs now the ability of the statesman.
it is we people oi .um vuuuvi jr. . - -- ,
, , For it is a ' new .era -nd ; a ; new world that
aeem to have arisen with the coming of the hew
century. ? We of th? West, with no I conscious
desire or ambition to impel us, hare been, never-
theless, impelled toward the East; and the East,
amid the recurring balancing of races, is'achieT-
ing a reTiyal which is destined to entail conse- -;
quences of epochal' magnitude.' V ? "
Upon the statesmanship which is to in ter
rene and modify the inevitable pressures and
strains vwill depend not merely the immediate
welfare of the nations, but the ultimate adjust-' :
ment of their relations- for long ages to come.
No statesmen of the old school, bred in the '
unadulterated selfishness of national aggrandize- -ment,
trained in the insistent brutality of na-' '
tional power, and versed in. the futile evasions .Jj
of national - chicanery, can prove adequate to . t
tuch an epoch least of all, amid the exigencies " ""-
of. such a nation as this of ours. .r '- '..-i v J -,l
- (The men who shall wisely,.shape our course
must know the rights of others as they know
our own; must understand racial temperaments
ana national vraxia bu weu uia vye gratuitous
affront abroad shall be. as rare as the. offense
Ei ven at home indeed, more rare, for the house-
old ' smiles ..where the stranger grows wroth ;' -and
they must be . statesmen who shall appre
ciate the permanent value of the nation's fair- '
repute for straightforward honesty as the out- :
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ward and visible sign of its innate uprightness
of motive. ' , , y
v Americans imagined that with , the respon-1
iibflities they, confronted as . the, sequences o
- the Spanish war they were engaged with world
affairs of a fficulty" which " would not bo sur
passed in the. future, and were capable of an:
adjustment , completely possible in the present.
Never. was there a larger error or, perhaps, a
more fortunate one.. .
A' long generation has passed since the j'
fa.thers of the -Americans of. today, were tried, in i
the world tests of . the Civil -War ; only those f
, who lived and fought . through those anxious '
years know how truly-the campaigns' were waged
in the courts of Europe as well as' in , the wasted ;
fields at home. -r v t J
', New, wholly .untried., under conditions un-
paralleled, we carao recently.1 into world politics
with a . sudden, daunting realization of our
ignorance, which might have more j than dis
mayed any nation that could have foreseen the
far adventures of the future. " " . -
, The few years that have passed', sincethen
have been crowded with the achievements1 of
our statesmanship, fortunate. in, themselves', and
" - fortunate for us; but more, much more fortu
C nate in that' they have sufficed peacefully,
T -harmlessly and effectively to, reveal and de-
I velop the statesmanship which, urgently requi-
' - site in the past, is imperiously necessary for the
, . future. . , .. . ", 1 .. ,
Both the present and the future demand, In ' -J
the men who are to ' influence ,the aims and ! -;
,. mould the . conduct of this nation, a. rare and
delicate combination of qualities not always,
.-; and not often', found in him who is the states-.'
man only. The world policies which, eager as,
. ' we may be to avoid them,' are more and more '
- .mightily impinging upon our, destiny, call for)
itho diplomatist as well as the stotesman. T
. brief, fortunate years, which have ; been' the .
' teachers of . our inexperience; have given this '
' .nation the man. ' v-.-'. - r:'Vv."' ' W- :
It has been my pleasant" fortune to be
v - associated with; Secretary:, of War: William II. !
- Taft for several years past, and to take with him
two world journeys. I have Been what he has i
accomplished,-and how, he has accomplished it;j
'.. ' and I have seen that Destiny which prepares t
' for every great, nation the instruments-of its?
; greatness at: work" in the' common "hours of;
" many prosaic days' fashioning ; him 'into the;
diplomatic statesman we must have if omitting;
all expectations of a broader future, we would :
" , - hope to maintain the advantages we possess in ' '
the family of .nations now. ,
It is one essential of the statesman that he
shall have the mind to discern what the national ;
. "-. . welfare requires; it. is another that he shall ,
: .have the courage to seel: it despite all oppo
- 6ition and difficulties. ; ' '
' ; . It is only part of his equipment that he shall
, be inspired by a Spirit of fairness and honesty in
' his dealings with peoples abroad; it is of equal
- moment that he shall inspire them, with con fi
v dence in his sincerity. . And that man is alto
gether . exceptional , who, holding unrqui vocal!
to the policies he must promote, can le ivo tLos
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