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Show LOUD HAUJANB'S ESTIMATE, Lord Haldano ia the first; Lord Chan-" cellor, of Groat. Britain who over left his country while in office, to 'go away for any purpose whatov'or. But he1 had tho special . leave of King.- Gcorgo to come; in fact, as Haldano himself explained, ex-plained, ho was authorized to speak as the official representative of the Brit-isiriinistry. Brit-isiriinistry. Tho address he dolivorcd at the great meeting of tho Amorican Bar Association in Montreal, was otic of high significance and power, and it. is stated that it is to bo printed iu a number of foreign languages and is to be generally circulated throughout tho world. Tho special word that. Lord Haldano was authorized to speak to the citizeus of tho Unitod States and of Canada was a plea for tho English-speaking nations to. draw together, and he expressed ex-pressed the opinion that by so doing they would bo stroug enough to on- forco peace upon the world. Lord llal-danc llal-danc further stated that in half a century cen-tury from now tho United States would not only bo tho leading nation of the world in matorinl wealth and plnsical I power, but also in intellectual strength. It has been fairly stated tha-t tho United States will also bo the leading moral power in tho WDrld, "if we remain true to our traditions of popular government govern-ment and human rights,' of which there"" is no reason to entertain any doubt. , It was a generous recognition of tho great republic of tho world which Lord Haldano mado in thus expressing himself. him-self. It is all tho more . welcome to have such an. appreciation from him, both on account of the .high position which ho holds and because, of the special spe-cial representative character in which he came to this country; and also it is extremely rare for a Briton to entertain enter-tain any very high opinion "of any country coun-try othor than his own. ; ,On both ac-connts, ac-connts, therefore, the fervent appreciation apprecia-tion which Lord Haldana -oxprcssod of the destiny of this country -is-most welcome wel-come to the American people; and when .we consider his high character and learning,, and the mental training that he must have undergone and sound .judgment acquired in ordor-rto hold tho elevated position '. that; .he does, tho fine opinion which ho'oxjiressod of tho 'United States is all the. more to bo appreciated. ap-preciated. ...... It only remains for the Unitod States to live, up to its high traditions, to keep on in the grand march of liberty and of regard for popular .rights, justice, jus-tice, humanity and moral ethics; to bo the leader of the world, in all -the good things which pertain to' this lif 6'and to the life to come. The people--of tho United States" have a good opinion of themselves and of their destiny. They have never cast their-eyes downward, -but always. upward. To iind a groat official like Lord Haldano .taking precisely pre-cisely the view of thir dostinj1- that they have taken themselves is most welcome, and it should act as a stimulus stimu-lus for our people to so-conduct themselves them-selves that they will be certain to realize real-ize tho splendid future that is thus predicted pre-dicted for them. |