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Show RECEPTION DUE JAMES BRYCE. A wireless came in from the deep sea yesterday announcing that the ship having on board James Bryce and his wife was nearing our shores. A great reception is due James Bryce. In sending him as Embassador to our country Great Britain greatly honors us, but she confers more honor upon herself, for of all her citizens James Bryce is about the foremost fore-most man. Profound in scholarship, experienced by extensive travel over most of the earth, with a mind to grasp all subjects and a heart to temper the mind and direct it in the channels of justice and of truth ; with an inborn love of liberty ; a devoted citizen of his own land, but still broad enough to fully measure thfe claims of all other lands and whatever of justice there may be in those claims, he is more than a citizen citi-zen of Great Britain he belongs to the world. His coming is a harbinger of good. "While it means that every right of Great Britain will be defended,, de-fended,, it also means that they will only be pressed in justice. He long ago proved his friendship for us and further proved that he had reached his conclusions conclu-sions regarding our country from a more careful study of our institutions than any other Englishman had ever given them. He should be grandly welcomed. wel-comed. It is due him because of the services he has already rendered his country and mankind ; because of the character which he brings which secures absolute ab-solute confidence in his ability and good intentions. He walks the earth today one of the very highest examples ex-amples of a great soul, a, master spirit that fears nothing save to do wrong. He brings with him the prestige which Great Britain has won through a thousand years of buffeting on land and on sea; he comes to hail with all good will that colony originally origi-nally English, which in 130 years, with only a wilderness wil-derness to work upon has wrought out for itself a place in the very fore front of nations. Only good will result from his coming. |