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The Commoner.
VOLUME 5, NUMBER
43
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AT THE AMERICAN LEGATION, JAPAN
Tho Japan News gives the follow
ing account of one of Mr. Bryan's re
ceptions in Japan:
The speeches rendered at tho dinner
party given at the American legation
on Friday evening in honor of Mr.
W. J. Bryan, were as follows:
MR. GRISCOM'S SPEECH
Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gen
tlemon: It seems to mo that no bet
ter introduction could be found for
a man than to say that over six mil
lion people were ready to vote for him,
and over thirty million people wanted
him to be president of the United
States. If I racked my brains for
years I could probably not do better
than to turn on Mr. Bryan the very
gracoful analogy whicli ho used to
the students of Waseda university in
his speech of yesterday. Mr. Bryan
said that when you first view a dis
tant range of mountains you can only
distinguish clearly two or three very
great and high peaks, and so it is
that tho people of foreign countries,
viewing the United States, can dis
tinguish among its public men but
two or three great figures. As one
who has lived for some years among
foreign peoples, I am perhaps particu
larly able to judge and I can truth
fully say that of those figures in our
public life best known to foreigners,
Mr. Bryan is one of the foremost and
greatest.
I welcome Mr. Bryan to Japan for
several reasons, but first let me say
that I have long held that the diplo
matic service should be non-partisan,
and on this account I am always glad
to welcome, a democrat. I am happy
to be able to say that no matter who
the American is who comes to Japan,
whether he be a ricn democrat or a
poor republican, he receives tho same
treatment at my hanas.
Now, there can be nothing borfn,.
for our international relations than
to have the most intelligent and
thoughtful men in our communities
travel abroad and it seems to me a
splendid sign of the times that such
a man as Mr. Bryan should find time
in his busy life to travel nhmni on,i
study and observe other countries.!
xl is an excellent sign for the future,
If Mr. Bryan had any doubts in his
mind before he left America as to how
we were viewed by the Japanese peo
ple, all such doubts must have long
since been set at rest. Our good re
lations with Japan were laid on a firm
foundation fifty years ago by Perry
and Townsend Harris, and Mr. Bryan
will find that these relations are ever
the same, established on a firm, pure
gold basis, and I thlnlc that even he
will admit that that is a good standard
to apply to international relations
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It is my function to endeavor to the
best of my ability to maintain the
parity, and, as wo all know, it is not
always an easy matter .to maintain a
fixed parity. In this difficult task
there could be no greater help than to
have a man such as Mr. Bryan come
to Japan and speak to all classes of
the community, and to meet people
of every walk in life. He can explain
to them far better than I can what
is American life and American
thought, and I can assure him that
for his assistance I am frankly grate
ful. I need not tell you of what Mr.
Bryan is in America. His position
is too weJl known. He is a man who
appears to be ready to raise his ideals
as high as the human mind is capable
of conceiving ideals, and as a con
sequence he has a hold on the great
American people whicli in many re
spects is unique. He is a man of
many capacities, and now I am going
to propose his health, and you are at
liberty to drink to him in any quality
which you may select. You may
drink to him as a statesman: you
may drink to him as the leader of a
great political party; you may even
drink to "him as a good democrat;
but for my part I drink to Brvan tho
man; I drink to Bryan the scholar;
and I drink to Bryan the earnest
friend of the American people.
Mr. Bryan's Speech
Mr. Minister, Your Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen: I have been
admonished that I would be expected
to say something m acknowledging
this very generous toast, but I hardly
know what to say. I was a cautious
man before I came to Japan, but I
have learned here an additional cau
tion. I bought trie three Nikko
monkeys, carved in wood, and I un
derstand that they represent a very
important philosophy; i. e that the
wise man sees nothing that he ought
not to See: honrH nntbino fhof v.
ought not to hear; and says nothing
cii.il ue uusut not to say I nave not
worried about the ilrst two, for I
have not expected to near anything
that I ought not to hear, or to see
anything that I ought not to see, but
I have kept my eye on the third
monkey, and have tried to be circum
spect in all my ways and cautious in
all my. utterances, but r cannot for-
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ucai lu suumic a word in reply to
the very kind things which have
been said.
I appreciate the opportunity that
our minister has given us to meet the
distinguished people who are assem
bled around this board. I appreciate
also the dignity and ability with
which he represents my country.
When I go abroad and meet repub
licans in the foreign service I am
satisfied that, whatever may be the
character of the vannhifmna if
home, good men have been sent
uuiuiiu,, una i ieei nice suggesting
that when we have any more contests
ciicj umuu u. iair exchange and send
away the Qnes who have been left at
home and bring bacic those who are
away. As I meet these learned, cour
teous and lflndlv ranilMlnnnn r,.l
I receive such hospitable treatment at
their hands, I feel all the old ani
mosity disappearing and I am, to
night, much in the attitude of a young
man, of whom I heard, who courted
his girl for a year before he had
the courage to propose to her. He
finally summoned up sufficient cour-
&u w Ltm uer mat ne loved her, and
asked her to marry him. Being a
very frank girl, she replied, "I have
loved you, Jim, for many months and
have only been waiting for you to tell
mo so that I could tell you' Of
course, Jim was delighted so de
lighted that he went to the door and
looking up at the stars, exclaimed!
"Oh Lord, I halnt got anything
against anybody." I feel that way
tonight, and this is not only true In
a political sense, not only true of my
feeling towards republicans, but I
think that as I come into contact
with the people of other nations and
races, I come to feel a closer attach
ment to them than I could have" felt
had I not met them. I am more and
more impressed with the broadening
influence of travelling. As we visit
different countries we learn that peo
ple everywhere,- no matter under what
language they speak, or through what
form of government they live, are
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EUROPEAN
TRAVELS.
LECTURES.
SPEECHES
By William J. Bryan
This book is a compilation of Mr. Bryan's reports,
describing his European tour and a number of his
most popular lectures. His European letters are four
teen in number, descriptive of tho tariff debate In
England, Ireland and Her Leaders, France and Her
People, Tho Switzerland Republic, Germany a"a
Socialism, Russia and Her Czar, "Tolstoy, the Apos
tle of Love," together with other and equally inter
esting accounts of Mr. Bryan's trip abroad.
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