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Show EMPEROR OF AMERICA! Goldwin Smith. Discusses Possibilities j of an Expansion Policy. j After paying a glowing tribute to ' Americans and American institutions, i Professor Goldwin Smith, addrf iS.-ing j the Canadian club at Ottawa, said: j "The free north, if it is rid of slavery. ; is not rid of the race question or of ! lnching. The horizon altogether in j that quarter is dark at present. Jing- ! oism reigns with its strenuous life,' its J 'Lig stick,' its swaggering, boastful ag- I gi essiveness, its contempt of right. I "buppose expansion takes; a South-j ern com so and extends to the Una of i the Panama canal, taking in a vast I alien population, there may be another ! disruption, there can hardly fail to be j a change oi institution. If you have i empire you must have an emperor. j "Ar? t our external relations- all we li-n say is. nature will have her way. j The action of the gre::t forces is often suspended by that of secondary forces, but the great forces prevail. "One thing is certain, whatever your external relations r.iay be and however how-ever dear may be the tk' to the mother country, on this continent your destiny is cast. Here is the lield of your duty and of your aspi.-alicri-. Hero.- not in Europe. Africa or Australia you have j to play your part in tV hopes luld out I to man by the discovery of the new ! world, the hopes of a happier state of I society, a lessening of the inequalities j -of the human lot. a government not , of j force but of reason. "You ha,ve interesting times before your democracy is cm its trial. It has pretty well performed the destructive part of i:.? task: the constructive part remains to b? performed. Meantime j the passions of aggrandizement and j w?.r, y.-hich slumbered lor a time, have ! rer. wakened. Jingoism tramples on j righteousness and humanity. Religious j belief is being shaken by science and 1 criticism and the authority of con- j sclwice as it rei-ited on religious -belief J-seems J-seems in danger of being impaired. War is raging between capital and j labor. Society is threatened with a ' tyianny of accumulated wealth.." j |